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Built-in dressers either side the casement 
windows afford shelves for the display of blue 
and white china in this kitchen of an English 
cottage. Copper and aluminum utensils and 
sunfast curtains furnish color 
as the other rooms in the house. I have a 
notion that more delightful meals could be 
prepared, whether by mistress or maid, in a 
kitchen that inspired by reason of its burn¬ 
ished coppers hung against pale gray walls, 
its decorative side drapes of striped black, 
henna, blue and cream at sunny windows, 
than in a kitchen coldly bleak or darkly 
stuffy. 
The beautifying of any kitchen may be 
Over-door shelves to hold decorative china is a 
German style that might be adopted in some 
American kitchens. On one side are built-in 
cupboards, and on the other a grandfather 
clock set into the paneling 
accomplished by color primarily. One has 
small worry in choosing between varying 
styles of kitchen tables and chairs: the chief 
consideration here is suitability, a simplicity 
of design and line, and a certain flavor of 
quaintness which adapts itself well to paint¬ 
ed surfaces and vivid spots of decoration. 
Furniture of this sort may be antique, 
especially chairs or cupboards, or the pieces 
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Misty gray walls, a deep lilac floor, furniture painted gray green, 
woodwork of ivory and colorful cretonne curtains are features of 
this fascinaitng little kitchen 
Richly contrasting colors are suggested for this little kitchen—gray 
walls, black arid white linoleums, ivory woodwork, furniture painted 
butter yellow and cream curtains 
