The Pantry Door That Used to Be a Door
Start at the pantry, because it's usually the first thing
you notice walking in. Instead of a flush panel that blends into the wall,
there's a carved antique door — something salvaged from an old estate or a
church rectory, with detail worked into the wood that no modern manufacturer
bothers with anymore. It doesn't try to hide the pantry. It announces it.
"People are so used to pantries being invisible,"
Wayne says. "A flat white door, maybe not even a door at all, just an
opening. I tell clients: make it a moment. If you're going to walk past it
fifty times a day, it should be beautiful fifty times a day."
The doors rarely match anything else in the kitchen on
purpose. That's sort of the rule with all of this — nothing is supposed to look
like it was bought as a set.
Turning an Armoire Into a Bar
The wine cabinet is where things get inventive. Instead of
built-in glass-front refrigeration units — which, fine, work, but look like
every other kitchen renovation since 2015 — designers are pulling antique armoires out of retirement and gutting them for wine storage. A piece that used
to hold someone's linens or clothes for a hundred years now holds bottles and
glassware, wired quietly for a small cooling unit tucked in the back where
nobody can see it. SHOP AT EBAY MOGULGALLERY
