Enjoy it while it's still ugly, folks. It's the last vestige of the porch I affectionately refer to as the "Jed Clampett." Seriously, an outdoor pantry is a cool old idea, and I do intend to keep some of that function in the new porch that will replace it. This one is tiny: 5' long by 42", maybe. And the door from the kitchen also tiny, so it is not tremendously useful for storing today's kitchen excess. Plus there's an insulation issue. Since I went to the trouble of adding attic insulation to the entire house, it's been especially difficult to use the pantry with much frequency. Add that to the fact that this is a kitchen with more things swinging into it than you can imagine (drawing forthcoming.) Imagine: two doors from the outside, a pair of inswing casement windows, and a door in the floor (image forthcoming) which provides access to the mechanical/storage/laundry below.
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Here's the window on the other side of the pantry, along with the aforementioned inswing casements. Yes, that side of the kitchen is leaning hard. It's amazing the plaster hasn't cracked inside. Very resilient, this little old building.
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