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Show Modern Kitchens Add Ease To Homemaking Tasks It would take a heap of telling to convince great grandmother that modern day kitchens do all that they do. Why, who ever heard tell of such a thing as baking pies and broiling chops and washing clothes and drying diapers and disposing of the trash and doing up the dishes all at once. At the very same time, mind you! Yet, that's what great granddaughter grand-daughter is doing these days. It would be a very average home-making home-making day, and she would be taking tak-ing this routine very much for granted. Never once would she consider that she is accomplishing in a minimum amount of time, work that used to take other generations gen-erations a sizeable portion of the homemaking day. But then, built in ranges, push button stoves, automatic defrosting refrigerators were still very much unheard of. Contrast the model kitchen of today, the kind with great flexibility of design that allows units to be free-standing, built-in or stacked-on with one of yesteryear. Like the one that South East Furniture Co. displayed recently in a large front window area. There were no convenient work areas, wisely divided into three working areas to provide for food storage, preparation and food serving. Instead it was a wonderful wonder-ful comfy, homey room, the heart of the home that made a slave and drudge out of mother. Now kitchens again have wisely become the heart of the home. But in a way that gives mother time to give many more personal contributions contri-butions to her family's welfare. Now silent untiring conveniences and appliances get the work done while the family shares in other happy activities. Hobbies, sewing, work benches, . the child's play pen, a food bar and breakfast nook combine with the basic work areas of a kitchen. More often than not, new homes boast a kitchen "family room" that by its title alone establishes the fact that the kitchen has become once again the most lived-in room of the house. |