Back when we were trying to
sell our house, one feature I tried to let
people know about was that our Kitchen was made by homesteaders, for homesteading. We have a lot of storage, because homesteading requires a lot of storage!
1) Our home's most unique feature is a deep freezer right in the kitchen it is in one of our islands so there is no need to go out to the mud room or the garage for frozen items for dinner. You access it by lifting up the countertop, and the freezer door. Normally it is used as an island top, and has a cantilevered countertop that acts as a single person table...the kids like to do homework here.
2) Another item is our big pantry. It does not look big from the outside because of the small double doors to get into it, but opened up it has floor to ceiling shelves, is 4x4 feet square, and is 8 feet high. It is really nice to have a walk-in pantry.
3) Another storage feature this home has, is two sets of refrigerators. We have a little one next to the
coffee maker just for our cream and
milk.
4) While really not storage, this house has two kitchen sinks as well, one being just to fill the coffee decanter, but is also so big, it does well at washing veggies fresh out of the garden. (This second sink can be seen in the second picture of our pantry, the
water to fill the sink is routed through pipes through the pitcher
pump and has hot/cold water to the sink. Antique faucet valves control the water...no pumping required).
It is kind of hard to see in the chaos of our kitchen, but hopefully people can see how the "small island" as we call it, opens up to be a in-the-kitchen deep freezer. And in the second picture, that is of our pantry for canned and dry goods.
We have other little storage features too like a big double island next to the small island (freezer island) with a drop leaf that allows us to serve buffet style on a 13 foot long island, or flip it up out of the way so Katie can walk around both islands with ease. We also have bins for
root stock (they can be seen as cubbies in the big island to the left in the first picture), storage for cook
books, shelves for display vases and stuff. The amount of storage in this kitchen is so vast, half of the drawers and cabinets are actually empty.
It is a really nice kitchen for homesteading...