Abstract
This study has been performed to find out the actual situation and the problem of the kitchen, in the general houses in Japan. Especially, in this article we expect to analyze on the actual situation and the estimation of dwellers for the kitchen in the detached houses, and to know the tendency of variation of the way of cookery. The subjects of this investigation were 222 housewives who had a daughter in undergraduate course. The investigation was carried out by the inquiry papers in July, 1975.
The results are as follows :
1. The “DK” type of the kitchen is predominant in the detached houses, and the homemakers who work in this kitchen are satisfied with their kitchen.
2. On the space of kitchen, they are satisfied with more than 14 m2 in the case of the “DK” type of the kitchen, and more than 8 m2 in the case of the “K” type of the kitchen. That is, they like more spacious kitchen.
3. On the layout of the base cabinet counter in the kitchen, the “I” shape type or the strip type is most popular.
4. Although the storage space of the kitchen in the detached houses are larger than that of the ready built houses, the homemakers of the detached houses still desire larger space. It is inevitable that the storage space will become the most important problem on the design of the kitchen.
5. At present, many homemakers use the instant foods, the ready-made foods and the frozen foods, but these facts still have not a powerful effect on the design of the kitchen and the way of cookery.
