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Planned Kitchen – More Social Life
Housewives spend too much time in the kitchen and should try to get back into the social life of the home.
That is the theory of designers who have planned the Homes and Garden section of the Festival of Britain.
Most of the planned kitchens displayed are arranged so they are part of a unit which also contains the breakfast-dining-room.
Glass folding walls, easily moveable screens or cupboard units with open shelf tops divide the kitchen from the eating quarters.
While she cooks or does the chores the housewife can talk to other members of the family without having them underfoot.
One important interior-decorating trend shown by the dozens of room displays in the Homes and gardens exhibit is that patterned wallpaper is back in fashion.
It is used everywhere – even kitchens have one wall papered.
Built-in cupboards and doors in streamlined 20th century bedrooms are