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Kitchens also began to change in their social outlook. For wealthy classes, kitchens were still working areas that were often a good distance away from the dinning areas. For middle classes, kitchens were next to or near dinning areas. For the middle class, therefore, as kitchens became cleaner due to better burning stoves and availability of water, kitchens began to become a new type of social space. People began to place tables and other furniture to use kitchens as social gathering spaces, while dinning rooms were used more for more formal dinners.<ref> For more on kitchens and class, see: Ballantyne, Andrew, ed. 2004. <i>Architectures: Modernism and after. </i> New Interventions in Art History 3. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub, pg. 13.</ref>
Refrigerators became smaller throughout the mid 20th century, allowing these to be increasingly fitted into kitchen spaces. During the early to mid 20th century, new kitchen designs began to emphasize smaller kitchens that were intended to be used as efficient spaces for food preparation. This led to the reduction in the use of kitchens as social spaces. Food Some 1930s-1950s kitchens were made so that they only had enough space for one person at one time. Additionally, food and cooking was still sometimes smelly, making the use of kitchens as social spaces not always ideal.<ref>For more on changing 20th century designs on kitchens, see: Spechtenhauser, Klaus, ed. 2006. <i>The Kitchen: Life World, Usage, Perspectives.</i> Living Concepts 1. Basel : London: Birkhäuser ; Springer [distributor].</ref>
What changed, however, was the innovation of the extractor fan, which now helped to draw away smoke from burnt food and smelly cooking. With the removal of smells, kitchens in the 1980s once again, in both middle class and wealthy homes, began to revert to as social spaces.<ref>For more on changing kitchen designs by the 1980s, see: Smith, Paul. 2016. <i>Structural Design of Buildings.</i> Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley Blackwell, pg. 16.</ref>
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