San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-06
MODERN KITCHEN IS
HOMELIKE AS WELL
AS JUST SANITARY
Not Necessary to Put Hos
pital Effect There as in
Former Days.

When grandmother's kitchen was
planned years ago, efficiency was
found only in the dictionary, not in
peoples everyday conversation.
Nobody ever "held the watch" for
grandmother to see hoy many steps
she took from the kitchen range to
the cellar, or from her homemade sink
to the well. But in those days time
was not worth a great deal and labor
not much more.
But efficiency locked the kitchen
door and tackled on it sign, "Closed
for Repairs"
1t is human failing to 60 from
one extreme TO another and then to
spend a few years travelling back un-
til we are where We should behalf
way between. When efficiency OPEN
ed the door again grandmother
kitchen was a spic-and-span. blue and
white laboratory with dazzling white
enamel and cleaning porcelain. A
far cry from grandmother's stodgy
and drab woodwork. The equipment
was all rearranged to save time, TO
save steps, to save backache. There
was plenty of light. better ventilation.
There was compactness. The floor
with its blue and white check limo
leum was very easy TO clean. And
thousands of little blue and white
kitchens were built throughout the
country.
Hospital Effect Not Desired.
Now the pendulum swings back. Not
back to grandmother's kitchen, but
half way. Lessons of efficiency will
certainly not be forgotten. But hos
pital surroundings are not necessary
and in time become tiresome. No mat
ter how efficient the kitchen, a wo-
man must spend a considerable part
of her day in it and she has found
that it may be just as efficient, just
as cheerful, and a great deal more
attractive with a color scheme of jade
green woodwork. light gray walls, a
linoleum floor of light gray and black.
Then spots of color may be added
here and there in the curtains, dishes,
furniture and rugs. Near the kitchen
sink there may be a woven or braid
ed rag rug that can be washed easily.
Reflect Own Personality.
But the point is to plan your kitch-
en- color scheme to reflect your own
personality and plan it as carefully
or more carefully than you would the
color scheme of the living-roOm and
dining-room. One of the leading in
terror decorators of the country has
suggested two attractive schemes for
the kitchen. In one she has specified
cream walls and the furniture yellow,
striped with blue. At the windows
yellow oilcloth curtains edged with
blue. On the yellow and blue limo
leum floor she advises n braided rug
in the same colors with bits of blue.
glazed pottery. She has even added
yellow canary as a final touch of
cheeriness.
Another Color Scheme.
Her other idea is color scheme
Of tan and soft, deep blue carried out
along much the same lines as the one
in yellow and blue. For scheme of
this kind there is an unusually at
tractive linoleum in a mosaic design
of old blue and buff In fact there
is linoleum floor to fit in with any
favorite color ideas that you may
have. Get an idea as to what you
want your finished kitchen to be like.
Then decide on the linoleum for your
floor. Having selected this you can,
with It as a foundation. build decor
alive scheme for the rest of the room.
The best way to have your linoleum
laid is TO have II installed over a lining
of builders deadening felt. The dead
ening felt is first pasted to the floor
and rolled smooth. Then the linoleum
is pasted over the felt with water
proof cement at the seams and edges.
The lonleum is then rolled smooth to
the felt. The result is that the seams
are practically invisible. There are
no cracks to catch and hold the dirt.