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The Laboratory, or simply “the Lab”, was located “dangerously close” to the Kitchen. It started out as a mere cupboard, but one of the [[Artifector]]s' first invention was the [[space expander]]s which turned the interior into a much larger working space. The Artifectors worked there daily on various mad-science projects, intended to make the lives of the House's residents either more or less convenient, depending on the Artiefactors' mood. There was “a little corner dedicated to non-mad science”, but it saw very little use. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 27: The Kitchen|The Kitchen]]'') The whole room was very dusty due to the Artifectors violently resisting attempts by [[Housekeeping]] to clean it out yearly, for fear that they would move their experiments around and disturb their habits. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 27-II: The Lab: Setting The Alarum|The Lab: Setting The Alarum]]'')

Inventions stored in the Laboratory included various time-travel devices, “a prototype for an innovative [[bee]]-based mode of transport”, equipment for measuring “luck, rubber band elasticity and sense of humour”, unfinished blueprints for an [[anti-procrastination device]], a [[Shiny Object Locator]] which had quickly been misplaced, and various [[thinking cap]]s, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 27: The Kitchen|The Kitchen]]'') as well as [[the Alarum]], a short-range time machine resembling a wooden cabinet. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 27-II: The Lab: Setting The Alarum|The Lab: Setting The Alarum]]'')