GAMES ROOMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23883, 10 August 1939, Page 18

GAMES ROOMS

POPULARITY IN AMERICA The modern English kitchen and bathroom, at their best, are at least as good as any to be seen in America, I was told in New York, and also the electric lighting in most rooms of the house, states an English writer in the London Daily Telegraph. In other words, we have made immense progress in these departments of the home, for there is no doubt that America was a long way ahead of us only two or three years ago. But in one particular, English people still might learn with good alvantage from their transatlantic cousins, namely, that is in the provision of a games room. This is a room furnished and equipped for pool or billiards, table tennis, shuffle board, bridge, and so on. Usually it has a floor of jointless composition, rubber, of good-quality linoleum, so that, with radio Included, it may be used for dancing. Frequently there is a bar at one side; of the room. Even in houses which otherwise are decorated throughout on traditional lines, the games room is often in modern style, with built-in lighting and perhaps tubular steel furniture. , Few English houses, as yet, include a games room, but in America there is hardly a recently-built house with four or more bedrooms that does not possess one. One is even to be found in many houses with only three bedrooms. In America the gsfmes room is often installed in the basement—which is, always well ventilated and sometimes air-conditioned. In an English house it could be on the ground floor or in an attic. The games room isjDarticularly appreciated where there is r a grown-up family. The young people can enjoy themselves with their chosen friends in the games room while their elders spend the evening quietly and undisturbed in the sitting room