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The features and fittings
The houses were let unfurnished, but they came with certain fittings as standard. The floors throughout the house were covered but not fitted with carpets. In some houses, for example, downstairs they had hard plastic tiles and upstairs linoleum and tenants put in their own carpets and curtains. In the first houses, the kitchen had a larder, cupboards, a gas water boiler, a ceramic sink and draining board and storage for coal; tenants provided their own cookers, fridges and washing machines. The living room and the bedrooms were provided with some storage, and there was often an airing cupboard in the bathroom.
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