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Winnetka Shingle Style Mansion Butler’s Pantry 150 150 Administrator

Winnetka Shingle Style Mansion Butler’s Pantry

SSDB Architect Sarah Gooden shares the inside story of the modernizing a butler’s pantry in a Winnetka Shingle Style mansion from the early 1900s, which included high gloss paint, scalloped marble and moving storage to new lower cabinets.

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Video Transcript

This butler’s pantry space changed both a lot and not at all from the original house. The footprint of the room is very similar to what it was before. The wall over here we actually discovered during construction was furred out a foot for no particular reason, so we moved it back. One of those things you find in old houses that have been renovated over the years.

We’ve got a beautiful wall-mounted faucet and sink just for bar cocktails, a marble shelf with lighting integrated—which was a bit of a challenge—and a beautiful, scalloped detail on either end of the backsplash.

This used to have that three-sided glass window that projected out, so now it has just kind of a clean, leaded glass window that feels like it’s more original to the house. And we actually removed the upper cabinets from this side. So, we did new base cabinets, a new stone countertop with some pretty scalloped details, and this high-gloss paint finish, which is really the star of the show here.

It’s a labor of love; it has to be done in the field, and it takes a very good, detailed painter to make it look great. And I think that’s the biggest transformation here. Even though the footprint is the same, it’s about the finishes and leaving some negative space here so you’ve got a beautiful sconce moment and it feels more open, but you’ve still got a tremendous amount of storage down below.