HOUSE AND GARDEN 
August, 1911 
ones are among the fea¬ 
tures utilizing space to 
the utmost. The kettle 
cupboard, opening from 
the kitchen, is furnished 
with hooks for sauce¬ 
pans and racks for their 
covers, as well as with 
shelves housing the shin¬ 
ing aluminum and 
enamel ware that takes 
the place of our moth¬ 
ers’ iron and tin utensils. 
A kitchen wall cabinet is 
another item in the 
architect’s scheme, and 
has miniature flour bins 
and cunningly devised 
compartments for spices. 
Altogether the kitchen is 
calculated, through its 
cupboards alone, to cause 
a house mistress to long 
for the usually dreaded 
hiatus between cooks. 
On the kitchen porch 
is a ledge containing 
trap doors lifted by 
sunken rings. Beneath 
is a shelf holding gar¬ 
bage and paper cans, 
often in unsightly near¬ 
ness to a kitchen door¬ 
way. Access is had to 
the cans by service men 
through a latticed cellar 
entrance at one side. 
The saving of floor 
space, more precious in 
a small house than in a 
large one, is carried to a 
fine point in the sleep¬ 
ing-rooms. Roof spaces 
around dormer win- 
d 0 w s, neglected ordi¬ 
narily or furnished with 
low cupboards into 
which the owner must 
dive head-first to find 
anything, are in this case 
filled with chests of 
drawers varying in 
depth according to the 
pitch of the roof. Here 
the clothing of the fami¬ 
ly is stored, and since 
there is ample room for 
both summer and winter 
wear a seasonal over- 
hauling of wardrobe 
space is avoided. In the 
children’s rooms these 
b u i 1 t-in cabinets that 
make chiffoniers or 
dressers an unknown 
quantity are especially 
useful, since they hold 
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One of the great objections to the gambrel-roof house is the necessity for sloping ceilings in the bedrooms, 
but these may be turnled to an advantage as has been done here 
The treatment of the living-room across the fireplace end is rather interesting, leaving the flanking windows 
in small bays 
