ALL-ELECTRIC HOUSE

Southland Times, Issue 22774, 27 December 1935, Page 8

ALL-ELECTRIC HOUSE

IN COURSE OF ERECTION. The Electrical Association for Women has always been enterprising, and one of its most recent ventures is to build an all-electric house, which is now in course of erection at Bristol, states an English writer. There is nothing aggressively modem about this house; it is a pleasant, livable place of ordinary size, planned in every detail to eliminate unnecessary work wherever possible. There is, for instance, no metal anywhere, which does away with a great deal of cleaning, the bedrooms have built-in cupboards and wash basins and all the window pelmets are built in to save material and cleaning. The windows are not paned, they are made from big sheets of glass, the dining room window folding away so that the sun can shine in. The roof has a sun-bathing portion sheltered by walls and downstairs the living room, dining room, and hall can be thrown into one for entertaining. In the living room there is a library recess built in with bookcases and a desk, while the dining room has a built-in sideboard beneath a hatchway leading to the kitchen. In the kitchen, of course, all the equipment is built in, including a refrigerator, without which no modern home is now complete. The Electrical Association for Women has fixed the selling price of this house at £1000,; and it is rather interesting to note that once the association had paid the fees in connection with its designing, the builders undertook all further financial responsibility, so sure were they that here was a house which would have a definite appeal to women.