18th Century cooking is done on an open range
18th Century Working classes have food cooked at a bake house due to minimal cooking facilities in the home.
Houses range between small with no supplies or facilities to large with basic kitchen ranges and bog houses...
External walls of houses are built in brick or stone.
Walls of most houses still are built with local materials.
Late 17th Century buildings...
Ranges designed to control the fire for the required number of pots.
Small houses still have nothing while medium to large have kitchen ranges, bog houses and in more cases a cold water supply...
First gas lighting utilities are established.
Lawn mower is invented by Edward Budding.
Invention of the adhesive stamp.
Creation of bathrooms in the house as an additional room.
Hot water systems are introduced into wealthier homes.
Openable windows become mandatory.
Small houses remain with nothing while medium and merger houses have improved kitchen ranges, a water supply and in larger houses a WC at the back...
Sanitation and behaviour within the home...
Coal fires are the chief means of room heating...
Half closed ranges are in use with separate boilers known as coppers...
Housing reformers are beginning to advocate separate bedrooms for boys and girls.
Outside of London the removal of basements lower building costs considerably
Gas gains acceptance in the home after the House of Commons adopts it.
Constant supplies of pressurised, filtrated water arrives.
The design of coal burning ranges and open fireplaces is directed towards improving fuel efficiency.
Bathroom hygiene improves...
A typical 'by-law' house has three bedrooms, a cold water supply and a WC.
Backs and gardens start to be used. The natural garden style returns.
Smaller houses only have copper piped hot water and possibly gas. Only medium and larger houses have an interior WC.
The introduction of the penny-in-the-slot meter enabled poorer families to pay for the gas in small affordable sums.
The bathroom appears in the smallest middle class houses.
Early 1890s Houses in Liverpool have complete WC provision.
First electric kettle.
For health -and due to the unavailability of servants- wooden floors and smaller carpets are introduced as well as less ornate dust-catching decoration.
Medium and large houses have most services in place...
Introduction of electricity changes the interior decor considerably...
Pianos, Perambulators & bicycles are the most expensive and desirable items in a working class home.
Inverted incandescent burners become available. Incandescent lighting by electricity actually predates its application to gas.
Introduction of the incandescent bulb into the home.
40% of households in Bristol use gas cookers.
2% of British homes have electricity.
The Belling company creates the classic 20th Century electric fire.
Mass production of goods for the home grows in importance.
Most medium to large houses are fitted with electricity...
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Enthusiasm for the home bought husbands and wives together and caused domestic rivalries with neighbours.
All houses improve in sanitation with hot and cold water, many with electricity, all with bathrooms of varying appliances.
The Radburn housing layout is designed to segregate motor vehicle and pedestrian movements....
The first automatic washing machine.
Households diminish in size with the final decline of resident domestic servants.
Council houses are the first to include bin storage areas in the design.
Majority of houses have an electric vacuum cleaner.
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