The Golden State: Where & How to Live, Secure, Visit, Enjoy and Thrive in California
Kitchens & Kitchen Remodeling
Obviously every color now popular for kitchen decorating cannot be made by every refrigerator manufacturer, but there are many of the more popular tints shown on the sales floor. White-enameled refrigerators are often sold, and the housekeepers paint them to suit their kitchen scheme. In some cases unfinished boxes are sold either for ice or mechanical operation, and the desired finish put on by the purchaser.
Capacity determines the size but not always the shape, for there are tall, narrow boxes, squatty ones, square ones, long ones, and, as with ranges and cabinets, the modern refrigerator has learned to adapt itself to peculiar shapes to accommodate itself to strange kitchen spaces. Sometimes it is grouped with cabinets, sink, and even the range, but this does not prevent its being a good refrigerator if it is of proved reputation.
Nearly all the leading automatic refrigerators cost approximately the same, prices varying somewhat according to locality and depending, of course, on size. One point to remember is that most of the refrigerator manufacturing companies are glad to sell these articles on the installment plan, arranging for a small down payment, with the monthly payments exceedingly low. This is also true of the public utility and electric light corporations, who will sell not only electric refrigerators, but most electrical articles on this same plan, arranging for a low monthly payment to be included in the electric light bill.
The Laundry In The Kitchen
THE highest authorities of sanitation used to frown upon the idea of the laundry work being done in the kitchen. But they now make allowances, in fact, they retreat from their arbitrary position and actually condone the laundry equipment in the modern kitchen under certain conditions, because of the high development of plumbing installments and fixtures, the smooth, sanitary surfaces of walls, equipment, and floors now widely in use throughout the country. The modern sinks in marble, porcelain, or rust-proof metal are designed, many of them, with a dish washer at one side, a clothes washer at the other, and the customary sink space between these. More simple sinks have, besides the usual basin with a drain board at one side, another, deeper tub space at the other side, which is covered when not in use with a removable enameled drain board. The varieties are legion which provide both a sink for kitchen uses and a tub for laundry purposes. Such a piece is the key piece in the laundry equipment of the kitchen. This once installed, the size of the kitchen, size of the household, and its wash-day requirements dictate the other accessories and pieces needed. The first cost of such sinks is high, $46, for a sink with only a rinsing-hose attachment, up to $400.
