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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1955)
j SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1955 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE TWENTY-ONS You Should nave hots Mapped Out So you're making it ("White . Christmas with appliances, Plan ning is an Important part of your Operation Snowflake. Your modern household helpers are made to last a long time. It Is possible you sun win oe using thai gleaming machine 20 years after you bring it t,o proudly into your home. It could be as much as 40 years. Do you know where you will put it? Do you know how it will fit In with other appliances you plan to have in future years? Are tnere places for enough work sur- laces in the area, you have mapped OU17 , ( These are some of the questions that you will be asking. And you want answers that will last through me years aneaa. You probably will consult with experts in your community and tney win give you advice. But re member that when all the advice is in, you are the judge. This is your home you are developing. , You will have to live in it, work in it. wnen Kitchen ana laundry bathroom and basement have been supplied with the appropriate ao pliances, you will use them. The best time to make your home yours is before you decide which of the many devices you will se lect. LEARN YOUR NEEDS " Find out what you need to the way of plumbing, wiring, flooring. lighting, ventilation, to use various types oi appliances. They may in fluence your decision. Then sit down and map out what ; you are going to do with the space in your nome that is available for your purposes. : One of the best ways of plan ning in advance is to use paper models. You know how your kitch en, your bathroom and your laun dry look now. You can measure their dimensions. Then you can find put the size of the appliances you want to use. Sit down and make a scale drawing of the space. Get some light cardboard and make draw ings of the appliances on the same scale. Now cut them out. On your drawing of your rooms you will Indicate where windows and doors are located, how big they are and how they open. When you begin to lay the scale models of appliances on the drawing of your rooms, you can take the open ings in the walls Into considera tion. CARDBOARD MODELS You can move one of your card board models with a flick of your finger. Once you get appliances into your house it is an expensive business to move them around. The expense is bad enough. It ts worse to have an appliance that annoys you every time you use it because it Is in the wrong place. The most complicated room to plan is your kitchen. It is basically a work room, although many fami lies are now planning kitchens which are also social centers. If you plan to have a social center as well as a work room you must take extra care that the social phases of your plan do not hamper the work. Experts on kitchen planning say the best kitchens have three vital centers. First is the preparation center. Shis is where you put your in gredients together to make the dishes that eventually Teach your table. " Then you have the cooking and serving center, and third is the sink area. Each has its quota of storage and work surfaces. KITCHEN SHAPES At. first glance, it might appear there would be an infinite number 1 of ways in which these areas with their subsidiary items could be ar ranged. But the kitchen planning experts say that a few baslo plans will be found to picture the many various ways in which the arrange ments can be made. One of the most common is the U shape In which all equipment is lined up against three walls. The L shaped kitchen is built into a corner of the room. The corridor kitchen often is appropriate If you have a dead-end room. Here the spaces are laid out against two opposite walls. If you have a large room for a kitchen two other plans are pos sibilities. One is the peninsula kitchen. This is often used to di vide a large space. Some of your working equipment can be lined up along one side of the peninsula. On the other side there might be a dining area or a home laundry. The same problem of space is sometimes met with an Island kitchen. Here you usually place one of the three basie work cen ters as an island. OPEN PLANNING In the use of either the penin sula or Island arrangement it is often convenient to arrange your working equipment on one side and line the back with storage cabinets. In addition, some kitchens are planned in a straight line with all equipment placed against one wall. This plan is often used In the so-called "open planning" houses where the kitchen is a part of the living room. Experts suggest that the import ant thing in planning your kitchen is to arrange It so that the work moves smoothly from one center to the other. You will want to give careful consideration to the flow of work. But another very im portant thing ts to make sure it is your kitchen. ! Push Buttons Help Bring Family Together Freezer Saves Food A survey shows the average fam ily wastes 10 per cent of its budg et on food spoilage and waste. That doesn't happen when you have a quick freezer. At least one manufacturer has perfected a method which permits food to be covered while It is broiling, A glass seal prevents grease from spattering Into the broiling unit. Modern appliances help bring American families back together. Push-button homework ts freeing wife and mother for more lime with her husband and children. Beauty engineered into kitchen and laundry by the manufacturers is making these rooms added centers for tbe family and their friends. But no one can claim full credtt tor the job. It was a team opera tion. ; First came the family itself. A few years ago Americans looked around at the lives they were liv ing and did not like what they saw; ' Home," they said, "has become a place where you sleep most nights and eat most of your meals, but it has got to the point where it isn't much else.". Social scientists got to work and reported the complaint was accur ate. Mother, father and the chil dren above the toddler stage were finding the main center of their iives outside the home. The scien tists spelled out their findings in learned articles. Popular writers recast such reports and more peo ple became aware of the problem. So Americans began to do some thing about ft. It's a habit Amer icans have. Among the first to be heard from were those with a radi cal solution. "Let's build our houses like the pioneer homes, all in one room," they suggested. Most of them didn't go quite that far. They partitioned off bath rooms and bedrooms. But even bedrooms sometimes had folding partitions and could be mado a part of the big main room. Some of these houses are still being built. But they show few signs of being popular. Meanwhile the makers of house hold equipment continued to im prove their product. That process has been going on for a long time. It is a job hammered out in re search laboratries and carried forward, in processes that some-: limes take years, in manufactur ing and sales. Then the American family came RADICAL Here's how on family tolved the problem of bringing American social life back to the home. The unusual nature of the solution' it symbolized by the combination fire place and barbecue in the foreground. But note that a modem kitchen has been incorporated as part of the living area in the background of the picture. Many families have found they can bring about the tame effects by using more con ventional home planning and modern automatic home appli- back into the picture. They put together some of the kitchens and laundries made possible by the new equipment. The result was action. "These rooms," they said, "are beautiful, pleasant places to be. The family can gather here. We can welcome our friends in such places," ' The sales curve for the new ap pliance is one answer; Americans are buying them. In many cases ,hey are creating larger kitchens and larger laundries, sometimes thrown into one single large room. These have become new centers for family life of the type Amer icans knew a generation ago. His torians point out that the kitchen as a social center has a rich tra dition in American life. Some oi our older citizens can recall such centers in older homes where a quiet, confident mother went on cooking or doing other kitchen chores while chatting with her irienas or caring lor ner children in the intervals. But an even more startling de velopment came when people be gan to use the new equipment. 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