ShareThe kitchen is the heart of the home and has become a showplace for its best design. Because of that, fewer homeowners want to get it dirty. Open layout kitchens, however, can put messes in full display. So that’s why more kitchen remodels are closing off certain aspects of a kitchen—including the cooking.
The addition of the “butler’s pantry”—or what may become known as the “mini kitchen”—is becoming the place where most of the work actually gets done. These enlarged pantries are getting outfitted with appliances, countertops and cabinets to allow more of the kitchen’s actual cooking and messes to get hidden behind closed doors.
Check out these hidden kitchen areas as part of the show homes in Homerama 2024 in Loveland, Ohio. In the photos below, a lavish kitchen was on full display at the center of the home, but then on the other side of the wall was an area outfitted with appliances, food storage, cooktops and more.
The following are two more examples of closed-off butler’s pantry tucked on the other side of an open kitchen’s wall.
Open Kitchen Design … Hot or Not?
Listen to Styled, Staged & Sold’s Melissa Dittmann Tracey on Real Estate Today’s radio and podcast show as she weighs in on the trend.
