Till HorSK AND ITS KQUII MKNT. 



KITCHENS AND SCULLERIES. 



Reltiiioii of Domestic Of/ices In the l ,enci\d I /nn A Sli/ni Ili\/uriciil Siu rev l I he Kitchen I he I rnhlcm 

 of the Scullery -l)itncr of Over-specialised K(/nif&amp;gt;nic&amp;gt;il -I t/nous Tvfics &amp;lt;&amp;gt;/ Kitchen Riiii^e*. 



IN the well-regulated household, which it is tin- ambition ol all housewives to maintain, the smooth 

 running of the domestic machinery nmst depend on the efficiency of those offices, which, hidden 

 away behind tlie bai/.e-covered doors of tin- service passage, are not visible to the eyes of the visitor. 

 Tin- drawing-room may be upholstered and furnished in the very best of taste; the rooms may be all, 

 or even more than, the neighbours can boast, and yet excite ridicule rather than envy, if not backed up 

 by the more solid qualities of a business-like disposition of these offices, which stand in the same relation 

 to the house as the heart does to the body. In the same way the offices, even if perfect in themselves, 

 will fail if their inter-relation to the other parts ol the house is not harmonious. There needs must, then, 

 be some small digression to trace the relation ol kitchen and dining-room if any useful purpose is to be 

 served. It is quite possible to have a perfect kitchen so arranged or planned that even in conjunction 

 with an equally admirable dining-room the result is yet quite unsatisfactory. 



So far as the chapters in this book are concerned, variou&amp;gt; parts ol the house have been considered 

 separately ; but the most urgent insistence is necessary that good architecture is that which blends all 

 the parts into one harmonious whole, and the very best architecture of all is that which gives consideration 

 to the. practicalities of existence. It our houses are afterwards to lie &quot; readable,&quot; they must make apparent 

 the lite that has been lived in them, and must be carefully designed to till its every need, which would 

 seem to be asking much of the architect ; yet a reference to the types ol plans of, &amp;gt;av, the last one thousand 



Il8. KITCHEN AT GLEMHAM . 



