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Show I HAVE A BETTER KITCHEN If you're looking for kitchen planning plan-ning ideas, don't fail to visit Tie-"model" Tie-"model" homes that builders frequently fre-quently open to the public, or put on display at home and garden shows. Sometimes the model home kitchens aren't the best, but they often contain new ideas that you . might like and can put into Use in your own kitchen. Builders have secognized that the kitchen can be a home's most important im-portant selling point. Because they're anxious to please prospective prospec-tive customers, they're putting the best into this room. For example, kitchen makers report that in 1951 more and more homes are being equipped with automatic dishwash- ers at little or no increase in cost to the buyer. Kitchen snack bars are often seen in model homes, providing a quick-meal dining area in the kitchen kitch-en without using valuable space. Builders are also using rotary corner cor-ner cabinets to make full use of corners and give the homemaker additional storage room. An increasing number of new homes are equipped with steel cabinets cab-inets and cabinet sinks, ' both because be-cause they are popular with home-makers home-makers and because this equipment can be installed quickly and easily, cutting down the cost of construction. construc-tion. The units are ready to install as they come from the packing crates, and do not have to be painted paint-ed and finished. . . Note some of these things the next time you have opportunity to visit a model home. Then, when you're ready to remodel or build, you'll have a good idea of just what wiU make a better kitchen for yn" |