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House & Garden 
The Eternal Kitchen 
(Continued from page 33) 
room with its red tiled floor has deter¬ 
mined the kitchen’s character—-a plain 
red oilcloth on table tops, red tiled 
floor, red gingham in cupboard doors, 
everything as in an English cottage. 
As kitchens become more and more 
convenient to the hand, more and more 
laboratory-like, we are apt to lose sight 
of the old charms, and overstress shin¬ 
ing white porcelain and metalic effi¬ 
ciency. There is, of necessity, so much 
shining metal and enamel that such 
colors as we bring into the kitchen 
may be strong ones. There is a certain 
amount of color always established—the 
white of the tiles or enamel; the black 
of the stove and heavier pots and pans; 
the glitter of bright aluminum and 
nickel; the occasional strong crude spot 
of copper; and the terra-cotta of brick 
and earthenware. The most successful 
colors to add to these are fresh pure 
ones. Red check gingham seems to 
have the same affinity for a kitchen that 
red geraniums have. Blue, a good 
coarse washable blue, is equally friend¬ 
ly. Green is very agreeable and too 
rarely used. There is a green linoleum 
made in imitation of green marble that 
is cool and clean looking. Orange and 
lemon yellow are delightful. 
Trying to make a kitchen too pretty 
may easily become a silly and absurd 
performance, but if decoration meets 
the requirements of cleanliness and has 
a certain relation to the crude shapes 
of pots and pans and such, I see no 
reason why we should not indulge our 
taste for modern art here. One of my 
friends who has fallen a victim to the 
delights of the Russian peasant scheme 
of decoration of the Chauve-Souris has 
established a modernist bee hive in his 
apple orchard, because he has no op¬ 
portunity for that particular sort of 
taste in his Georgian house. He has 
a row of bee hives painted in vivid 
colors—green and red yellow and vio¬ 
let and pink and blue and orange—■ 
and it is a sudden and amusing joy 
to the eye. The gay and innocent color 
of the Chauve-Souris is applicable to 
the decoration of the kitchen, whereas 
more sophisticated decoration is not, 
because there is no possible careful 
scheme among kitchen furnishings. 
Therefore, brilliant color is desirable. 
In a Long Island house built in the 
Italian style the kitchen is one of the 
most interesting rooms in the house. 
The floor is of linoleum blocks, huge 
black squares separated by gray lines. 
The walls and ceiling are washed with 
lemon yellow, and the trim is stained a 
dark Italian walnut. We had a pair 
of old Venetian kitchen cupboards, yel¬ 
low' glazed to a faded tone, painted 
with baskets spilling over with turnips 
and carrorts and such, which gave 
the kitchen so fine an air we had to 
search for other Italian things which 
would also be sensible as well as beau¬ 
tiful. A w'orking table was necessary, 
so we bought a slab of yellow marble 
and placed it under the large window, 
supporting it by a pair of wrought 
iron brackets. This kitchen console is 
quite as useful as a white enamel table, 
and very decorative as well. Curtains 
were made of a heavy washable orange 
linen, and the kitchen table has a set 
of cloths and napkins of the same linen 
for intimate breakfasts. 
Another kitchen equally amusing is 
in the little French lodge house of a 
lady who has fastidious requirements. 
This kitchen has a floor of real red 
tiles, true to the French in color, white¬ 
washed walls, and a light green trim. 
A reproduction of an old Breton cup¬ 
board in oak has the place of honor. 
An ordinary drop-leaf table of no period, 
several Breton oak chairs with rush 
seats, a lot of Brittany peasant china 
and red and white striped linen cur¬ 
tains emphasize the French note of the 
room. I must not forget the orderly 
rows of little brown earthenware pots, 
so reminiscent of thick cream, that are 
used for tea and coffee and such, on a 
long shelf. These squatty little pots 
are embellished with labels adapted 
from the designs of the Brittany china, 
and lettered according to the contents. 
Under the pot shelf, which is green, 
there is a smart little ruffle of red and 
white striped linen that can be hooked 
on and off easily. 
My own kitchen in my New York 
house is to be a mixture of English and 
French—Adam and Directoire,, friendly 
periods because they both come from 
the classic Italian. This kitchen is 
planned around a lovely old Adam cup¬ 
board, painted light blue, with deeper 
blue lines in its groovings, and white 
lines in its panels. The interior of the 
cupboard is painted an extraordinary 
bright pink, and my collection of blue 
and white glass is lovely in its. candy- 
colored setting. The walls and trim of 
this kitchen are light blue, enameled to 
the quality of lacquer. The floor is of 
a plain black linoleum waxed to shine 
like marble, and the curtains are of 
pink—very pink chambray, with wide 
ruffles. These ruffles are of coarse 
lace, embroidered with pink and blue 
cotton threads, imitating the Russian 
peasant lace. The two long French 
windows open into a tiny yard (we 
call it a “garden” in New York) en¬ 
closed by a high boarded fence. This 
fence I purpose to have painted from 
that joyous design by Rousseau, “Les 
Farceurs,” a mass of tropical green¬ 
leaved plants and trees with two mon¬ 
keys beaming at you from among fan¬ 
tastic branches. The painted branches, 
the brick pavement, and a wide awning 
of dark green will make this little yard 
an open air breakfast room. It will be 
furnished with iron table and chairs. 
The average American kitchen is 
small, and therefore, must be compact 
and ship-shape. A small kitchen must 
have washable walls, although a large 
room, with plenty of windows, may 
have its walls papered. In Falls Vil¬ 
lage, Connecticut, there is a refreshing 
kitchen in a remodeled farmhouse. 
Several doors and windows supply ade¬ 
quate air, so the walls, which are cov¬ 
ered with a large green and white lattice 
paper, are immaculate after several 
years use. The doors and shelves and 
tables are painted bright green, and 
the floor is covered with a plain dark 
green linoleum. The doors here have 
long full curtains of black mosquito 
netting, which keep flies out, and give 
the coolest effect you can imagine. 
A fresh and convenient apartment 
kitchen is shown in one of the illustra¬ 
tions. Here the space is so precious that 
every bit of wall space is required 
for provisions. This little kitchen is 
shining white paint or shining black 
metal, and navy blue and white china 
and linen. The sash curtains are blue 
and white check gingham. The spice 
pots and headboxes are blue and white, 
everything is of the simplest, but the 
cool impression is far from ordinary. 
One of the finest rooms I know any¬ 
where, is the kitchen in a remodeled 
American house, beautiful white panel¬ 
ing, large flagstones making a floor, 
whitewashed ceiling and very delicate 
white beams crossed by three great 
supporting oak ones—a deep chimney 
place, with oak settees under the hood, 
and a checked gingham curtain pleated 
under the mantel shelf. Geraniums on 
the window sill. A drop leaf table in 
the center of the room with two wheel- 
back chairs. A great dresser of deal, 
with cups and saucers and plates spread 
out, and great copper pots beneath it. 
A grandfather clock between door and 
fireplace. What a kitchen to sit still 
and dream in. 
