Searching for that new custom Florida home (and homesite) to make that dream abode a reality?
One of your accompanying dreams also might be a custom kitchen, especially if you’re D-O-N-E with a current, outdated version.
ICI Homes’ On Your Land or Ours custom division is here with three kitchen ideas — a butler’s pantry, keeping room, and kitchen island. The latter is more familiar, while the previous two have centuries-long histories. But each one is a helpful space that can add to the ease and enjoyment of any modern kitchen duties.
Here’s more on these three custom design ideas for today’s custom kitchens.
Key Takeaways
- Timeless kitchen features like butler’s pantries, keeping rooms, and islands add function and style to modern homes
- These spaces enhance storage, entertaining, and everyday living within the kitchen
- Custom kitchen features can be incorporated into homes of all sizes with thoughtful design
- ICI Homes allows you to personalize your kitchen to fit your lifestyle and how you use the space
Everything old is new again.
There’s a reason butler’s pantries, keeping rooms and kitchen islands are timeless features. Interpreted for 21st-century living, they remain as functional and helpful as they were hundreds of years ago.
Per the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a butler’s pantry is “a service room between kitchen and dining room.” If you’re a fan of historical dramas like Bridgerton or Downton Abbey, you might have seen 18th, 19th or early-20th century butler’s pantries on screen.
Today’s butler’s pantries excel as behind-the-scenes storage areas for kitchen and household items. They also can function as second kitchens for frequent or large-scale entertaining, and are perfect as Insta-worthy spaces tricked out with personalized storage designs.
Also per the Merriam-Webster, a keeping room is “a common room (as in a colonial house) usually used for multiple purposes.” It’s likely the oldest feature here, dating to when fireplaces served as both cooking sources and warming focal points for gathering and eating.
Flash forward and envision an informal dining nook adjacent to your new custom kitchen — a stalwart of many modern floor plans. Add a small desk or household planning area that incorporates a chalkboard or bulletin board — another common, kitchen-adjacent element.
You can even add a real or decorative gas fireplace for your own Keeping Room 2.0!
A kitchen island (Merriam-Webster doesn’t define it) is a bit younger, but also originated more than a century ago, when large tables served as functional food prep surfaces.
Designers, architects and consumers refined kitchen islands’ appearances in the 20th century, keeping the food prep function, but evolving them as attractive serving and dining stations, and as storage stashes.
Works with all kitchens
Combine all three features in your new custom Florida kitchen, or chose one to explore with On Your Land or Ours pros.
Do you need a huge floor plan to make these features happen? You do not.
On Your Land or Ours can help you include these kitchen features in homes of all sizes, thanks to our in-house design and build teams, which minimizes costs and delays. So bring your butler’s pantry, keeping room and kitchen island ideas! We’ll work them into one of our award-winning floor plans, a plan you bring to us, or draw something new.
Ready for your new custom Florida home? Talk to ICI Homes’ On Your Land or Ours here.