"THREE-ONE" FLATS.

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1399, 31 May 1923, Page 6

"THREE-ONE" FLATS.

TABLOID HOMES I.Y .YEW YORK. With a population which threatens to exceed Ut.OOn.bd" within the next j twenty years, ihe housing problem in I Yew York is developing difficulties that grow mole formidable every year. I’rubahiy (says the Yew York correspondent of a London paper) ii is no exaggeration to say that sjnee ihe war, with about. 400,000 dwellings divided among 1,250,000 families, the majority of people living in New York have had to content themselves with quarters not much larger than those accorded to passengers in a transAtlantic liner. And t'he rents range from £SO to £20.0 a year for each room. The latest experiment in flats consists of an apartment, hotel. " Three-in-one "-room flats is the title ot these new lilHputian homes. The home seeker enters a vestibule giving on a room furnished with a dining table, a sofa, a writing table, and several chairs. At night time lie opens a door leading into an alcove, which serves the double purpose of a dressing and hath room. From behind the door two beds, neatly camouflaged by a curtain, are released by pressing a button from their pendent position, and are piloted into what was a moment before a living and (lining room, but 'is now a bedroom. In a second alcove is a little kitchen. with a neat sink, with hot and cold water supply, an ice chest surmounted by a china closet on the left side, and on the right a gas range with an oven anil two burners surmounted bv a pantry. Underneath is a drawer containing saucepans and other culinary implements. One hundred and ten pieces of china and six sets of everything needed in the way of silver and cutlery are packed into the two tiny closets, and over the gas range is affixed a “ softtoned and attractive asbestos curtain ” to act as a safeguard against fire. T'he dining table (transformable at will into a drawing room table) is large enough for six people.