For 1957 the designers of Better Homes and Gardens really outdone themselves with this amazing kitchen that also doubles as a barbecue area and greenhouse. To get the greenhouse look they used glass walls and translucent plastic ceiling, with standard greenhouse framing materials for support. The ceiling is not the roof of the kitchen, rather it's a mammoth lighting fixture. Its pitch follows the lines of a gable. Twelve 8-foot fluorescent tubes above the plastic panels give kitchen an over-all, top light, shadowless effect. Panels are removable for replacing light tubes, easy cleaning. Copper on wood-front cabinets, barbecue, hood and oven gives room cozines, warmth. Eight-foot planter at right is on 18-inch wall cabinets. Posies line ledges, old-fashioned Boston ferns grow luxuriously in baskets from ceiling.
Wide counter peninsula is grand divider, yet makes kitchen easy working. Peninsula houses sink, dishwater, gas cooking top, combination washer-dryer. It offers roomy work surface and storage.
Charcoal barbecue-rotisserie grills the makings for midwinter family picnic...indoors. Hood has built-in ventilator for smoke; it's also open to work on kitchen side next to cooking top.
Planter dividing large peninsula counters grows everything - fragant rose and lemon geraniums, chives, parsley, mint, herbs. Water's at your fingertips. Colorful interwoven slat blinds roll up and down individually for coustom control sunlight.
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