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Kitchens & Kitchen Remodeling

Utensils of yellow enamel and aluminum with orange handles.
Cutlery, stainless steel, orange handles.
Shelving used in glass-door cupboards of orange and yellow plaid oilcloth.
Curtains at casement windows of yellow linen, printed in a plaid effect with orange and white, bound with plain orange linen and held back at each side of the window with cuffs of the orange linen.
Towels of yellow linen with orange edge, white with yellow, and yellow and orange checkered effects; pot holders of orange color.
Electric equipment, such as percolator, waffle iron, and toaster, with orange enamel handles and knobs.
In another north kitchen, a scheme of beige and red was selected as the most desirable.
Walls, painted beige color.
Floor, black, red, and beige congoleum or linoleum.
A woodwork and large pieces of furniture, beige color.
Sink beige, range beige enamel, with red handles, refrigerator enameled by purchaser to match walls, kitchen cabinet and two cupboards painted the same, with a line of red used around doors and on handles.
Small furniture, such as a stool, in red; work table in white enamel with red legs; waste can red, all shelves painted beige like the walls, but edged with red.
Utensils of beige enamel and aluminum with red handles.
Cutlery, stainless steel with red handles.
Shelving used on one open shelf and in a cupboard red oilcloth sprinkled with white polka dots.
Window curtains red calico sprinkled with little white flowers.
Towels red and white plaid linen, white with red border, and beige colored linen with red edge.
Small electrical devices, red handles and knobs.
Red, only a few years ago considered an impossible color for any room of the house, and hardly dreamed of for the kitchen, has become so popular that it appears in many unusual combinations.
Another favorite combination is red with green and black.
Walls, of green washable wall fabric or washable paper of plaid or an amusing modernist pattern.
Woodwork, the same tint of green.
Floor, hardwood, stained green, varnished with waterproof varnish.
Equipment, such as sink, in green; range in black, ivory, and green; cabinet and cupboard units, green; refrigerator painted green by the purchaser or left ivory; work table ivory top with green legs.
Small furniture, such as stool, waste can, and serving wagon in red.
Breakfast nook stained green like the floor, but waxed and polished instead of varnished.
Utensils, green enamel with red handles, and aluminum with green handles.
Cutlery, with green and red handles.
Shelving on open shelves of plain red oilcloth.
Curtains in kitchen and breakfast nook, checkered red and green gingham. Breakfast cloth and napkins, natural linen with red cross- stitch embroidery, fringed.