The Kitchen Your Guests Never See: Inside a Scullery
Every great dinner party has a lot going on behind the scenes. At MDD Homes' showcase model, the Industrial Ranch House , you get a backstage pass to this hidden area area where all the work happens. A signature space in our custom designed estates is the scullery kitchen: a second, fully working kitchen just out of sight of the main one. While guests gather around the main kitchen to enjoy the food and take their photographs, the room that makes hosting feel effortless is the one most visitors walk right past, or don't even see. This is a look inside it, and at why we think every serious entertainer should plan for one. What Is a Scullery Kitchen? A scullery is a secondary kitchen built for the work you would rather keep out of sight: rinsing, prepping, staging and washing up. Merriam-Webster traces the word through medieval French to the Latin scutella , a drinking bowl. The room itself comes from the great houses of England, where the scullery handled washing and rough pr...
