The Room That Does the Dirty Work
Does your kitchen fall apart the minute two people try to cook in it at once? Do you wish you could host without everyone seeing the total mess your kitchen becomes?
In this post, you’ll learn what a scullery is, how it changes the way a kitchen works, who gets the most out of one, and what adding one to a Charlotte kitchen remodel looks like with 7 Day Kitchens.
What Is a Scullery, and Should Your Kitchen Have One?
A scullery is basically a secondary work kitchen built next to the main kitchen, with its own counters, its own sink, and often a second oven.
It can take on overflow cooking, baking, dishwashing, and storing small everyday appliances, so most of the mess stays out of the room where people gather.
Your kitchen should have one if a single prep zone isn’t keeping up, if there’s nowhere to put baking or beverage prep, or if you want the main kitchen to stay clean while everyday cooking happens.
What Isn’t a Scullery
Three things get confused with a scullery:
- A pantry is for storing food and supplies.
- A prep zone is one workstation inside the main kitchen, like a baking station.
- A coffee bar is simply a single station for the machine and the mugs.
How a Hidden Prep Kitchen Changes the Way a Kitchen Works
A scullery helps free up the kitchen.
One person can prep and clean in the scullery while another can cook in the kitchen.
You get more counter space, since the mixer and the air fryer stop living next to the stove.
Dirty dishes go out of sight instead of piling up in front of guests.
The guests themselves will have more room to gather in the kitchen without getting in the cook’s way.
Who Benefits Most from a Scullery?
You’ll love having a scullery if:
- You have a large family who cooks and cleans up more in a day than one sink and one stretch of counter can keep up with.
- You love hosting and want to hide the mess cooking makes.
- You’re a serious baker who wants a work surface that stays set up and a second oven the main kitchen can’t spare.
- Your household has multiple cooks who need the kitchen at the same time and are tired of waiting their turn at the only prep space.
Inside a Charlotte, NC Kitchen and Scullery Remodel
In our kitchen and scullery remodel in Charlotte, NC, we turned an unused formal dining room into the scullery.
The kitchen had one prep zone, limited counter space, and nowhere for baking or beverage prep.
The dining room next door was a pass-through room with a table in it.
The family needed more space so they could actually use their kitchen without getting irritated with each other.
They decided on a scullery that holds a:
- Wall oven and microwave we moved out of the main kitchen.
- Kraus Kore 21-inch prep sink.
- Refrigerator.
- Full counter run.
- 3 open shelves above the cooktop wall.
That freed the main kitchen for a GE Café induction range and a curved custom hood.
Both rooms are finished to match each other, too.
Brooklyn Fawn cabinetry in the kitchen, Shallow Green in the scullery, with Calacatta Premata quartz cut from jumbo slabs spanning both rooms with minimal seams.
Zellige and matte brick tile in Oat and White runs across both, as well as antique brass hardware.
We only do sculleries as part of our Kitchen Plus service.
Does Your Kitchen Have Room for a Scullery?
A scullery doesn’t have to come from the space in your current kitchen.
A scullery can come from an under-used room adjoining your kitchen.
So the question is more like, “Are you willing to turn one of the kitchen-adjacent rooms into a scullery?”
See if Your Kitchen Remodel Can Include a Scullery With 7 Day Kitchens
If your kitchen can’t keep up with how much happens in it, a scullery is worth looking into.
Fill out our contact form or give us a call today, and we’ll walk through your space and help you decide what you can do with it.
