Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner.

  • Turner, Ernest.
Date:
1884
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    China closet Oven. Coal-cellars. Scullery. Cellars (miscellaneous). Soiled-linen room. Dairy. Safe. Dairy scullery. Silver scullery. Drying-room. Service-room. Flour store. Still-room. Housekeeper’s room. Store-room. House Steward’s office. Store closets. Housemaids’ closets. Steward’s room. Hot closet. Servants’ hall. Ice-house. Shoe-room. Kitchen. Servants’ bedrooms and sitting- Knife-room. rooms. Larders. Shed. Laundry. Wash-house. Linen-rooms. Wood-house. Lamp-room closet Water-closets. Lumber-rooms. Wine-cellars. Luggage-room. Having thus certified the presence of the required number of rooms, &c., the next point is to see if they are adapted to their several purposes. The Dining-room, for instance, should not have in its outlook anything of south or west, but more especially of west. Its length should be determined by the maximum number of diners it is intended to accommodate, each of these requiring sitting-space of from a foot to fifteen inches in width.* The width of the room should not, in the smallest house, be less than 14 ft. 6 in., giving 4 ft. 6 in. to the table, 15 in. each for the two rows of seats, a similar space for any spare chairs left standing against the wall, and a * It is hardlynecessary to point out that, as the table has two sides, this seemingly insufficient allowance of space is really doubled, giving to each guest from 2 feet to 26 inches of sitting-space.