This compact apartment kitchen trusts to 
white paint and navy blue and white ging¬ 
ham for distinction. It is modern, sanitary 
and convenient, and still a picturesque 
place 
from an old custom of placing the kitchen 
as far away from the front door as possible 
than our new architectural trick of placing 
the kitchen spang beside the front, door? 
The New York fashion of turning the front 
room on the ground floor into the kitchen is 
a very sensible one, and also a very uplift¬ 
ing one, because then it must live up to its 
position. 
A house in Sutton Place recently 
remodeled by Miss Elizabeth Marbury has 
a dignified Georgian fagade of light gray 
stone, and a red lacquered front door. As 
important a detail of the fagade as the en¬ 
trance door is the treatment of the kitchen 
windows. They are hung with curtains of 
gingham of bold red and white checks. One 
longs to go into the kitchen the moment one 
enters the hallway of this charming house, 
and that is as it should be, for the red check 
curtains are but indications of the English 
kitchen within. The oak paneled dining 
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To take the ultra-modern curse off an up- 
to-date kitchen, install some interesting 
china cupboards, such as this corner piece 
of Colonial design. It can be painted 
brilliant colors 
