National Plan Service: The Modern Kitchen - Control Tower of Home Efficiency

Child care, meal preparation and service, baking, laundering, sewing and housekeep-ing, all have been put on a push-button basis, and the kitchen is the control tower of the efficiency that makes the modern home maker's life one of constantly increasing interest and leisure. In her kitchen, the wife wants plenty of convenient storage space for canned goods, groceries, staples, china, silver, linens, utensils, cleaning equipment and supplies, electrical appliances, and other necessities. She wants ample refrigeration for storage of foods and beverages so that frequent shopping trips would not be necessary and so that she can take advantage of "good buys" when they are available. She wants a fast-service spot for meals to save steps to and from the dining room. She wants lighting where it will be most needed and, of course, windows to give her light and air and a view of the garden. She wants the very latest in range design and simplified cooking, the new efficiency styling in a sink, and a compact but ample refrigerator. She wants all of these in an efficient layout and with the opportunity to have color and cheerful decorative touches. The Bedfords considered that they might not be able to immediately provide everything they wanted in their kitchen in the way of appliances but they wanted to have space for them anyway. When they began studying plans they found that the designers were far ahead of them. Even in the smallest homes, logical, systematic thinking about the needs and desires of home makers had created plans that scored high on all counts.