Evening star., 1932-06-25
Silver Star Home Draws Thousands Of Visitors
Residence on Exhibition
Has Many Unusual
Features.
KITCHEN DESIGNED
TO LIGHTEN WORK
Dining Room Walls Deco
rated With Oil Paintings
in Silhouette.

! ~ EVERAL thousand visitors already
have made an inspection of the
new Silver Star Home at 49l5
HiIlbrook lane, in the Spring
Valley section. which last week
was opened to the public Tor month
of public study
While the treatment of this home is
restrained, in keeping with the New
England colonial motif which served as
its architectural inspiration, 1t contains
many unusual and interesting features
which have attracted particular atten-
ton of the throngs of visitors.
The hvable, simplicity and domestic
character of the dwelling has been
noted by the visitors, and at the same
time they have made a study OF the
details of the arrangement and equip
ment which mean so much to the con-
venience of modern house.
For one thing, the house has an all
electric kitchen, with equipment de-
signed and selected with an eye to
tightening the work of operating that
all-important department OF the home.
Kitchen Studied Carefully.
1t is agreed that an inefficient, poorly
arranged and inadequately equipped
kitchen may upset the entire routine
of living, whether this department Of
the home is managed by the housewife
or by servants.
A really efficient kitchen cannot be
built by merely purchasing unrelated
items of equipment and simply placing
them in a room called the kitchen, it is
pointed out Efficiency and ease of
management can be made possible only
after a thorough study of all the neces-
sary elements, one in its relation to the
others.
The kitchen OF the Silver Star Home
is the result of careful study in this
regard. 1t was laid out with attention
to proper place for the refrigerator,
for the range, double sink, adequate
cupboard space, for a work table, for
proper ventilation and lighting. both
by day and by night. Perhaps of more
Importance is the necessity of consider
ing the rotation Of work from one unit
TO another.
Then there is found In this kitchen
an electric clock and a ventilating fan
to carry off the odors of cooking
Adjoining the kitchen of this exhibi-
ton dwelling is a pantry which reveals
wide array of inclosed, built-in
shelves on either side and a buffers
sink at the end, this room being located
between the kitchen and the dining
room at the front Of the house.
Open to Public Daily.
The new Silver Star Home, awarded
place in the better homes demonstra-
tion sponsored by The Star by the group
of home building specialists conducting
the program for this newspaper. is open
to the public of Greater Washington
daily from 10 m IN O nm
1t may be reached by driving out
Massachusetts avenue to Wisconsin
avenue. turning left there along Cathe-
dral avenue and continuing through
Wesley Heights to the entrance 10
Spring Valley, right at the first inter-
section along lockwood parkway for
several blocks then turning right on
Forty-ninth street to Hillbrook lane.
Signs mark the way.
One of the particularly attractive fea-
lures Of the demonstration dwelling is
the treatment of the walls of the dining
room, which was executed by Louis K.
Moss, in collaboration with viii Smith
THESE walls have been decorated above