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House & Garden 
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If You Are Going To Build 
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chance are your own housewife, you 
would be delighted to give up the din¬ 
ing room and either save money or use 
it to better advantage. You will, of 
course, make the dining corner of your 
living room close to the kitchen, but 
you will separate it from the kitchen by 
a pantry. There will be a door from the 
kitchen into the pantry and a window 
from the pantry into the dining corner. 
This pantry arrangement will keep 
cooking odors out of the living room, 
it will also save the houseworker many 
steps. Wasting steps in any woman’s 
life who is doing housework has come 
to be regarded as an absurdity, whether 
that woman is mistress or maid. If you 
do not intend to do the housework 
yourself, and the appeal is not a burn¬ 
ing one., to most women, the more com¬ 
fortable you make your housemaids, the 
more you consider their health and 
strength, the more peaceful and de¬ 
lightful your own life will be, and you 
will have that pleasant feeling of play¬ 
ing fair. 
The Front and Back 
As you move from room to room in 
imagination, you will find it an im¬ 
portant matter to decide whether you 
wish your living rooms at the front or 
at the back of your house. Many peo¬ 
ple who have gardens prefer living 
rooms at the back, with kitchen and 
house service arrangement at the 
front. This simplifies the delivery 
service and the front of the house can 
be made as architecturally beautiful as 
though you looked out of the windows 
from the reception room. Many peo¬ 
ple in New York are planning their 
houses this way, for the sake of quiet 
and pleasure in the garden. In the 
Turtle Bay section, a place that covers 
nearly two blocks in New York with 
a wonderful garden running between the 
backs of the houses, practically all the 
homes front at the back, which sounds 
a little contradictory. The dining rooms 
and living rooms look out on picturesque 
spaces, and you enter the garden through 
Italian pergolas, down graceful concrete 
stairways and vine-hung porches. There 
is no way of entering this enchanted 
place except through the houses, so that it 
becomes an intimate gathering place for 
all these garden lovers. The maids’ 
rooms are in the front basement and 
the kitchens in the center. The whole 
service of the house is very much sim¬ 
plified by this arrangement, and the 
maids seem to prefer it to the old way. 
The English cottage type of house 
lends itself to this idea extremely well. 
The Colonial, with its low casement 
windows, is not quite so suited to it. 
In a bungalow the plan is equally fea¬ 
sible. Of course, in a country house with 
wide entrance halls, where you expect 
your reception room to open from the 
hall, the idea becomes impracticable. 
Many houses do not have real halls 
nowadays, merely alcoves, which con¬ 
tain coat rooms. But in certain types 
of houses, a hall has its genuine use; 
it makes for privacy in the living room, 
it brings the stairs down away from the 
sitting room so that children can have 
access to the upper floor without going 
through the rooms where people are 
living, and if the hall is kept wide and 
not too long, and has a fireplace at the 
end, or a tvindow looking out into the 
garden, and is pleasantly furnished, it 
can be made a very attractive feature. 
Kitchen Plans 
Once you wander into your kitchen 
you will find it hard to consider other 
parts of the house. It goes without 
saying that you will want a modern 
kitchen, a miracle in sweetness and 
light, with at least one charming win¬ 
dow from which the houseworker can 
look out into the world, and there 
must be a floor that will keep clean 
with the least possible effort, and bright 
cheerful furniture. You will probably 
decide on highly enameled woodwork, 
easy to clean. I am sure you will not 
want an all-white kitchen, it is so un¬ 
friendly. Perhaps you will have com 
colored curtains and blue linoleum, and 
I hope a garden where through the win¬ 
dow you can get occasionally “a green 
thought in a green shade.” 
The real way to solve the servant 
problem is to make the kitchen so cheer¬ 
ful and friendly and convenient that 
neither the mistress nor maid will dislike 
working in it. The ‘‘efficiency of the 
kitchen” sounds a little appalling, be¬ 
cause you can become so terribly effi¬ 
cient that you are worn out managing the 
system, but no household can be really 
convenient and hospitable that isn’t 
planned with a kind of efficiency, a 
system so simple and intelligent that 
homemaking becomes a pleasure. 
It is hopeless to expect men to make 
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