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A utility room for general purposes also depicted its use as a guest room in case of an immediate need. A 1944 Scottish housing and planning report recommended that new state-built homes for families could provide a utility room as a general-purpose workroom for washing clothes, cleaning boots and jobbing repairs. An American publication, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, on July 24, 1949 reported that utility rooms had become more popular than basements in new constructions. On June 28, 1959, in a report of a typical American house being built

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