THE WASHABLE HOUSE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19862, 3 February 1920, Page 7

THE WASHABLE HOUSE.

“ I call this my washable house," said the woman whose spotless and speckless home was being admired. Despite the daily hours of scrubbing and polishing there are homes which cannot bo called spotless because they are not designed for easy cleaning. Do you not know the house in rvhich the silver glistens when you visit it, where the furniture shines 'and winks at you, but where the coverings of the chairs and sofas soil your hands and gown? Simply because the covers are not made easily removable. Nailed and sewed covers are a veritable business to replace. The woman in the washable house had hers made with dress clips so that they could come off and on in a few minutes, and the clips are of the rustless kind. ! .

Her bed valances are clipped on (so are her curtains), to a strong tape, so that rusting pins do not tear her net and muslin.

Her walls are distempered, her paint washable paint, so that a cloth wipes it down. Pier kitchen table is covered with a white enamelled sheet to avoid '.wood scrubbing. All floors are linoleum covered, or painted, and the carpets do uot go under the big pieces of furniture, so that they can easily he. lifted, She has no brasses to clean, and little silver. The money she would have spent on such ornaments for cleaning has now gone into rustless knives. Her pans are enamelled white so that tin. is no doubt as to their cleanliness. Sho has two sets of blinds, so that they shall not harbour dirt as do so many blinds that never come down. And dll her shelves are being encased with sliding glass doors as she can spare the money to have it done: