This made me realize how confusing the terms we use in my household might be to anyone but us. The things in the kitchen that hang on the wall, in which dishes and spices are stored, are cupboards. The exact same things in the kitchen, only under the counter, in which we store pots and pans, are cabinets. The very tall cabinet/cupboard in which much of our food is stored is a pantry. Right next to it is a small, narrow room that connects the kitchen and the living room. This is the butler's pantry (alas, we have no butler). The butler's pantry contains cupboards, where we keep our liquor, and cabinets, where all the small appliances live. There is also a closet in the butler's pantry--a small space with a door, in which we keep, well, weird things that don't go anyplace else, plus all the non-kid DVDs. Next to that (still inside the butler's pantry) is another closet-like space, where we keep more food. We call that the butler's pantry pantry.
The fancy dishes we inherited from grandparents are in the living room in a free-standing piece of furniture called the china cabinet.
Clothes are stored in dressers (free-standing pieces of furniture with slide-out drawers) and in the closet, a mini-room with a door.
Sheets are upstairs in the hallway in the linen closet (which is really pretty much identical to that first pantry I mentioned downstairs, but we call it a closet anyway).
Random laundry junk is in cupboards and cabinets in the laundry room, as well as the closet contained in the same room.
The things in the kitchen that hang on the wall, in which dishes and spices are stored, are cupboards. The exact same things in the kitchen, only under the counter, in which we store pots and pans, are cabinets. The very tall cabinet/cupboard in which much of our food is stored is a pantry.
This is actually pretty close to how I think of it!
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Date: 2010-04-21 10:44 pm (UTC)The fancy dishes we inherited from grandparents are in the living room in a free-standing piece of furniture called the china cabinet.
Clothes are stored in dressers (free-standing pieces of furniture with slide-out drawers) and in the closet, a mini-room with a door.
Sheets are upstairs in the hallway in the linen closet (which is really pretty much identical to that first pantry I mentioned downstairs, but we call it a closet anyway).
Random laundry junk is in cupboards and cabinets in the laundry room, as well as the closet contained in the same room.
Whew!
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Date: 2010-04-22 12:16 am (UTC)This is actually pretty close to how I think of it!