2OO On the Construction of Kitchen 



on the plan of the room ; and in doing this the work 

 will be much facilitated by the following very simple 

 contrivance. 



Cut out of thick pasteboard detached pieces to rep- 

 resent the boilers, saucepans, roasters, ovens, etc., which 

 are to be fitted up in the brick-work, and placing these 

 in different ways on the plan of the room, see in what 

 manner they can best be disposed or arranged. As 

 these models (which must be drawn to the same scale 

 as that used in drawing the plan of the room) may 

 be moved about at pleasure, and placed in an infinite 

 variety of different positions in regard to each other, 

 and to the different parts of the room ; the effect of any 

 proposed arrangement may be tried in a few moments, 

 in a very satisfactory manner, without expense, and 

 almost without any trouble. 



To facilitate still more these preliminary trials with 

 these models of the boilers, etc., several slips of paste- 

 board, equal in width to the distance at which one 

 boiler ought to be placed from the other in the brick- 

 work, measured on the scale of the plan, should be 

 provided and used in placing the models of the boilers 

 at proper distances from each other. This distance 

 in fitting up or setting kitchen boilers and saucepans 

 I have commonly taken at the width of a brick, or 

 4! inches ; and I have allowed the same space (4} inches) 

 for the distance of the side of the boiler from the out- 

 side or front of the mass of the brick-work in which it 

 is set. When this point is settled (that respecting the 

 distance which should be left between the boilers), the 

 arranging of the pasteboard models of the boilers on 

 the plan will be perfectly easy. 



As soon as the distribution of the various boilers, 



