Kitchen
Such wall treatment will go far toward making
a beautiful kitchen. Add to this a well-arranged dresser for blue
or white kitchen china, with a closed cabinet for the heavy iron
utensils which can hardly be included in any scheme of kitchen
beauty; curtained cupboards and short window-hangings of blue,
or "Turkey red"—which are invaluable for colour, and always washable;
a painted floor—which is far better than oil-cloth, and one has
the elements of a satisfactory scheme of beauty. We can if we
will make much even in a decorative way of our enamelled and aluminum
kitchen-ware; we may hang it in graduated rows over the chimney-space—as
the French cook parades her coppers—and arrange these necessary
things with an eye to effect, while we secure perfect convenience
of use.
They are all pleasant of aspect if care and thought are
devoted to their arrangement, and it is really of quite as much
value to the family to have a charming and perfectly appointed
kitchen, as to possess a beautiful and comfortable parlour or
sitting-room. Every detail should be considered from the double
point of view of use and effect. If the curtains answer the two
purposes of shading sunlight, or securing privacy at night, and
of giving pleasing colour and contrast to the general tone of
the interior, they perform a double function, each of of which
is valuable. If the chairs are chosen for strength and use, and
are painted or stained to match the colour of the floor, they
add to the satisfaction of the eye, as well as minister to the
house service.
In establishments which include a servants' dining-or sitting-room,
these moderate luxuries are a thing of course, but in houses where
at most but two maids are employed they are not always considered,
although they certainly should be.There is no reason why the wall
space above it should not have its cabinet for photographs and
the usually cherished prayer-book which maids love both to possess
and display.If one can use this distinctly human trait as a lever
to raise crude humanity into the higher region of the virtues,
it is certainly worth while to consider pots and pans from the
point of view of their decorative ability.
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