Three Kitchens of Effectiveness and Efficiency 
A PRESERVING FOIBLE THAT BECAME A DOMESTIC AND ARTISTIC TRIUMPH—THE 
GRAY KITCHEN OF FEW STEPS AND THAT IN WHICH ELECTRICITY DOES EVERYTHING 
A HOUSE that is a home belongs particularly to its mistress 
and should fit her like her tailor-made, which, if she had 
a hump on her back, would either snugly fit it or artfully con¬ 
ceal it to conform to the lady’s sense of pride. 
The home, when built to fit, duly furnished to her taste and 
imbued with her spirit, typifies 
the mistress. If she has had 
little foibles that have grown 
into obsessions, let them be 
needed in the planning of the 
house lest they, like Banquo’s 
ghost, rise again and yet 
again, to confront their slayer. 
A foible that grew into an 
artistic and domestic triumph 
is the kitchen of one woman — 
you simply have to speak of a 
kitchen as belonging to “one 
woman” — at Redding, Con¬ 
necticut. What at first glance 
would seem a step back into 
The position of the sinks and drain board 
saves steps 
the past, a retreat to those days when the kitchen was the eating, 
sleeping-, living- and dying-room of the family, and hence had to 
be of generous proportions, is, in reality, the very latest of late 
kitchens, one where work and play can mingle, where all known 
laws of modern sfficiency would seem to be set at naught without 
once losing that efficiency. 
The idea in building this 
kitchen was to keep it mainly 
for preserving and those 
times when a woman wants to 
“fool around” with dishes that 
she'll not trust even to the 
best cook in the world. Af¬ 
ter it was built and furnished 
it proved to be a favorite of 
Doth mistress and master, the 
former using it, as she had 
intended, at preserving time; 
the latter in bird season, when 
Starting at the ice box, the cook here With hlS OW 11 hand lie COolvS 
simply rounds the walls the daV S ba°‘. 
A preserving kitchen 
Designed and executed by Hoggson Brothers. 
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