"The kitchen is light, utopian, jovial. It's the most used room in the home, the heart of the house.
This is the place where they do their work; it's where they place the cauldron."
"From bell jars & funnels, to beakers and scales; stoneware and terra cotta planters; hanging baskets filled with roots and bulbs; and tender herbs best grown indoors, the greenhouse is filled with exotic plants and mysterious herbs..."
"The pantry, then, would be the perfect place to store such ingredents. Bottles, jars, mortars & pestles, and bowls - all in a variety of colors of glass..."
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Sumptuous velvets in earthen colors,
old leather chairs,
Oriental accents, oil on canvas portraits, bookshelves full to bursting, framed sets of early botanical pressings - the sort of scientific things that would have interested the inhabitants. A Victorian Parlour for the modern woman..."
"More craft room than dining room - Since the inhabitants are always making things - dipping candles, turning lye into skin-nourishing black soap, spinning wool, knitting sweaters - that is, until company arrives..."
