South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-09-01
Pretty Kitchen in
Blue and hite
How An Ingenious House
wife Made An Ugly Room
Attractive.

One woman has evolved rather
new idea in bringing her kitchen up
10 date ineXpensively by the use OF
the hair-line plaided blue and white
oil cloth which resembles tiles III
pattern. This was the way the room
looked when the Oil-cloth idea came
20 the owner as a solution OF now 4
might be made into an attractive
room at a small price.
First she had the ceiling and side
walls painted a clear blue white, so
that they might be sponged of as
soon as they grew smoky The win
dow and door castings were finished
with white enameled paint which
could also be spOnged off. Next the
bricks around the range were paint
Cd bright red and pointed in white
the usual way; then she had her car
Denter fasten a wainscOating of blue
and white oil cloth a yard and quar-
ter wide around the entire wall SAGE,
fastening il at the bottom with balr
round, and at the top with quarter
round wooden mOlding painted with
white enamel.
she then had the floor covered with
a good blue and white patterned linO-
leum, the tubs and table covered with
oil clCth TO match the wainscOdting,
and the kitchen chairs. ironing table
and the legs of the zinc-covered table
treated to white enamel paint. Fresh
white shades were put up at the win
dOws with little dotted sash curtains
hanging before the lower sash.
The kitchen cabinet, formerly also
drab-colOred affair, was white euam-
eled auG oil cloth like the wainscot-
ing adorned its shelves. She mad a
box MADE large enough TO hold two
buckets of coal, and had it Zinc-lined
on the inside. white enameled on the
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had a handle at either end and one on
top to the cover with, so that it might
De rolled to the Kitchen door to re-
ceive it's daily supply of coal and then
% rolled back 60 its convenient posi-
ton beside the stove. Next she had
a small vegetable bin made with three
compartments and a hinged lid which
slanted slightly down towards the
front; this she painted with white en-
amel. and it also stood on caStOrs =
was just the right size % r0u under
the kitchen table out of the way but
large enough to carry a two or three
days supply of staple vegetables, such
as potatoes, onions and so on.
She advanced another new idea m
painting her zinc garbage bucket,
which stood under the sink. with white
enamel on the outside and black paint
on the inside with a coat of shellac
over the paint. Thus it held neither
odor nor grease. for nothing would
stick to it; an idea well worth copy
ing.
Even the not water boiler was
painted white: and with all its dainty
appearance there was not a thing IN
the whole kitchen that could not be
washed off with soap and water ex-
cept perhaps the window shades
which could be easily and cheaply re-
placed at almost any time.
OF all the rooms that should be
CHEEKY in any house, the nursery and
the kitchen are the ones most deserv-
ing of every effort that can be put
forward 10 make them so. Both neeI
sunshine and happy thoughts. and the
atmosphere of the kitchen will make
itself felt in the quality of the cook
ing, Just as the sunshiny nursery> will
brighten the thoughts of the little
ones who spend their days in it.