The Latest Kitchen Must-Have: Butler’s Pantry
If you’re wondering if a butler’s pantry is worth the hype, the answer is yes!
As you’re looking for inspiration pictures for your kitchen remodel, don’t you love how every picture looks clean and uncluttered? You don’t see bulky displays or everyday clutter taking up any counter space. Instead, you notice all the beautiful design details from the cabinetry and countertops to the hardware and backsplash. If you find yourself wondering how these kitchens manage to always stay clean and beautiful, the answer is adding a butler’s pantry! In your butlers pantry, you want to make sure you have 4 key design details: Storage Space, Extra Outlets, Open Shelves, and Additional Countertop Space.
Storage Space: You want your butlers pantry to enhance the way you live in your home. So if you’re a coffee connoisseur, wine lover, or frequent baker, you want to add storage options that are custom to your needs. For example, you can include storage for all your coffee cups, coffee pods or grounds. You can add wine racks to organize your wine collection. If you love to bake, you can add a pull-out stand for your mixer or storage racks to organize your baking spices. For your everyday pantry items, you can crates, drawers, and baskets that are both stylish and functional.
Extra Outlets: While they may not seem necessary, having additional outlets in your pantry is one detail you don’t want to miss. Additional outlets allow you neatly tuck away all your small kitchen appliances and prep your food while freeing space on your main kitchen countertops. So whenever you have guests over, you have more room for serving and socializing. And as an added bonus, you get to enjoy unobstructed views of all the beautiful details that make up your new kitchen remodel.
Open Shelves: Just like any other room in your home, you want to be able to add your personal touch to make it feel more like home. In the butlers pantry, open shelves allow you to display your favorite coffee mugs, glasses, and cookbooks to add that personal touch. Styling your shelves with decorative vases, artwork and other decor pieces will liven up the space and make it feel cozy and inviting. Next thing you know, your butlers pantry will turn into your favorite nook in the home.
Additional Countertop Space: Have you ever had the headache of trying to cook a meal with little to no kitchen counter space available? This is a situation we would 10 out of 10 not recommend. The secret sauce to alleviate that headache is including adding additional countertop space in your pantry design. You can prep food and plate meals with ease (and out of sight from your guests!). This design also clears up unnecessary items taking up the main counter space while you and your guests are enjoying quality time together. Additionally, your pantry countertops can serve as a convenient spot to keep stock of any items you may need to replenish such as appetizers and drinks.
Nothing makes a kitchen look more beautiful than having a butlers pantry to neatly organize and hide your everyday kitchen essentials. However, if you want to elevate the look of your butlers pantry, you can design it to be a hidden pantry! With a hidden pantry design, your “pantry door” would blend seamlessly with the rest of your kitchen cabinets. Your pantry door could be designed as a cabinet panel or as a murphy door with a built0n shelf design on the outside giving your kitchen a luxurious and high-end design.
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