The fittings may be just a nail in the bathroom, a towel rail or a laundry pole in the kitchenette.
At present, the policy is to build semidetached houses, with two rooms downstairs and a little kitchenette as a lean-to and two-and-a-half bedrooms upstairs.
There is no kitchenette, no scullery, no bathroom, no water closet.
You may have one kitchenette and one bathroom, and you have all these people, all perhaps with different ideas, clamouring to use the same facilities.
Old folks left behind in accommodation which is not overcrowded by present standards—one bedroom, one sitting room and a kitchenette—cannot get rehoused.
It can be done by having in a house, probably on the ground floor, a single-room flat—a bedroom and kitchenette—which the elderly can use.
But supplies of timber are not sufficient to enable us to revert to the provision of wooden floors in kitchenettes.
A little modernising of these houses, the provision of kitchenettes, bath-rooms, hot and cold water might, be considered.
