The Golden State: Where & How to Live, Secure, Visit, Enjoy and Thrive in California
Kitchens & Kitchen Remodeling
With such adventuring in mind, especially for the small apartment kitchen, charming effects are possible with silver and gold paint; for example:
Walls, painted silver and coated with water-proof lacquer for their protection.
Floor, taupe and black mottled linoleum, with a star or modernist flower inlaid in solid taupe linoleum.
Woodwork, silver like the walls.
Sink, black with nickel fittings; refrigerator, painted silver; range, black and nickel; cabinets, in modern style, of taupe or silver with orchid, magenta, and pale green floral decoration on the doors.
Utensils, aluminum, monel metal, nickel, orchid enamel with magenta handles.
Mixing bowls, orchid, magenta earthen-ware; canisters, green glass.
Towels, linen sprinkled with modernist flowers in magenta, orchid and green.
Curtains, the same linen.
Breakfast nook, black lacquer table and chairs, green glass plates, cups and saucers, and other pieces; linen like the window curtains and towels.
Lighting fixtures, silvered metal, frosted glass.
Electricity In The Kitchen
"ADEQUATE WIRING," to the average house- keeper, means enough electrical outlets for all appliances and lamps. Nor is it sufficient simply to provide these items in quantity. The outlets, to give efficient service and save time and trouble, as they are intended to do, must be placed where they will do the most good, and they must be able to carry the current loads for which they are intended.
When building a new house, just as in remodeling an old one, the outlets, especially those in the kitchen, should be planned by the housekeeper, working with the architectural blue prints or at least with a sketch of the floor plan. The most obvious places for an electrical outlet in the kitchen are: one within easy reach of the sink drain board, if it is to serve as a work shelf. This outlet is for operating the choppers, meat grinders, percolator, cream whippers, and such devices. There should be an outlet at table height in the breakfast nook designed for two plugs, for percolator and toaster or any two appliances used on the table. There should be a separate outlet in some spot on the kitchen wall convenient for a motor beater and chopper; another for the iron, dishwasher, or washing machine, where laundry is done in the kitchen; an especially installed outlet for the automatic refrigerator or any appliance calling for a heavy duty outlet. It is an excellent plan, especially in the small kitchen to have every outlet capable of handling two plugs.
In rewiring the old house, the same general allotment of outlets should be made for the remodeled kitchen, for it is in this room and the laundry that the efficiency and labor-saving of electricity are demonstrated at their best for the housewife.
