Pantry Envy

I go to a lot of beautiful houses to teach Mah jongg. And really they are all wonderful, but recently I taught at a house that had the most fabulous pantry I have ever seen. The house was lovely, but the Pantry was drool worthy.

It had places for appliances to live plugged in. It had the perfect storage for everything you would ever need in the kitchen. It also enabled them to not make the kitchen so large because you could store all the dry goods, and extra dishes and serving pieces out of the way.

I wasn’t able to stand there long and study it, but I knew it was impressive when a man in the class said to his wife, “Have you seen the pantry?”

If I were to build a house I would start the design with two things I don’t have, a killer pantry and a Christmas tree storage room off the room where I would want to display the tree. It would be my dream to open a secret door and roll out a 14 foot Christmas tree already decorated. I don’t care that I would have to wire the ornaments on to the tree the first time.

Sadly I have no place to create a dream pantry unless I tear out my kitchen, and turn it into a pantry and put my new kitchen in the breakfast room. There might be a way. I just have to win the lottery.