The Golden State: Where & How to Live, Secure, Visit, Enjoy and Thrive in California
Kitchens & Kitchen Remodeling
Other shelving, to match the curtains, may be bought in familiar curtain fabrics such as glazed chintz in solid colors or many patterns, in plain chintz or linen delightfully shaped and bound with either cotton or linen binding. Glazed chintz binding costs 10 cents a yard. Such shelvings are washable and with reasonable care in handling will last as long as the curtains they are bought to match, or even longer. These more delicate shelvings are especially demanded in the apartment kitchen or the kitchenette, where brilliant colorings, dainty glass, china, colorful enamel, and shining aluminum utensils, together with a handsome chafing dish and other table devices, must share the limited shelving space.
As important to the good appearance of the cupboard shelves as the shelving are the hooks for cups and utensils. These, like every other
modern gadget and accessory for the kitchen, are also made in color and should be chosen to match the selected scheme. Thumb tacks, which in many instances provide the best way of holding shelving in place, are also made in colors. Match boxes on the little shelf next to the range, kitchen notebooks, clocks, thermometers, and similar devices have appeared in color to keep company with the utensils and equipment already blossomed in bright and varied hues.
Ranges And Fuels
BEFORE we buy a range we should consider its place in the kitchen scheme. What fuel is to be used? Do we live in a city where electrical kitchens prevail because of an exceptionally low electrical rate? Do we live in a city where electric service is high but gas is plentiful and the most economical fuel? Do we live in the suburbs, where a combination of gas and electricity makes the acquiring of a combination range a wise move? Are we to use oil? Gas delivered to the door in tanks? The suburban or country house which has been struggling with a burdensome wood or coal range need only to open its eyes and look about. Gas in tanks, easily handled and al ways available, is invading even the most obscure territories; oil for cooking or refrigeration and heating is delivered everywhere in this country. Gas mains and electric power lines are reaching from urban centers farther and farther into the backwoods, so that a little mountain camp, a farm in Iowa, a cottage on the back street of a Texas town, may have cooking heat by pressing a button or turning a switch.
For every type of cooking fuel supplied to American kitchens, there are ranges so advanced in design, so simple, efficient, and satisfactory, that the drudgery and hard work have been removed from the preparing of meals just as they have out of other household tasks, by the invention and perfection of fine labor-saving equipment.
