Victorian Pantry Kitchen
 This house was built in 1887 in central Ohio. It must have been a show house for the craftspeople who built it, because everything about it was special. The basic architecture, the brick work, the windows, and exterior woodwork all had the look and feel that comes from that extra attention to detail. The interior woodwork was comprised of many wood species. Quartersawn oak, sycamore, black cherry, and heart pine were some of the wood types used in this home.
The kitchen space had been gutted prior to our arrival. All that remained was a tin ceiling, a pine floor, and the original heart pine pantry cupboard around the corner from the kitchen.
This cupboard was the inspiration for our Victorian Pantry style kitchen. At the time, heart Pine was not available to us, so we used cypress for the cabinet material. Cypress wood has a similar grain pattern and can be stained to look like heart Pine.
The cabinet has doors with raised panels with molded frames and matching raised drawers. The Chippendale bracket base, ogee crown molding with bullnose cap and curly maple countertop, though not typical Victorian details, work well on this particular piece. Both the sink and the sink cabinet countertop are soapstone, and the cabinets have low-voltage undercabinet task lighting.
Reproduction cast iron hardware, similar to that found on the original pantry cupboard, was used throughout.
The appliances were all stainless and left uncovered.
This kitchen had been built and installed by us 7 years prior to the time these photos were taken. As you can see, it has worn quite well.
David T. Smith
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