The Winter Kitchen

Winter is when the kitchen does its best work. Bread on the counter, the kettle going, and a recipe card in somebody’s handwriting propped against the flour canister.

If you’re looking for a few ideas to make yours the coziest room in the house this season, we’ve gathered some favorites below.


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A rust-colored Dutch oven of vegetable soup on a stovetop with a ladle, stoneware bowls and a folded kitchen towel.

Soup Season

A floured wooden counter with a proofing basket, bench scraper, flour canister and a fresh loaf cooling on a wire rack.

Bread Baking

wall mount with shelves and hooks

Kitchen Scale

wicker storage baskets for mudroom
fabric storage bins

Flour Canisters

Cooling Rack

organizers with drawers for small organization

Linen Bread Bags

A cast iron skillet of cornbread on a trivet beside a casserole dish and linen oven mitts on a farmhouse table.

Sunday Supper

A kitchen counter cocoa bar with a whistling kettle, glass jars of marshmallows and cinnamon sticks, and stoneware mugs.

The Cocoa & Coffee Bar

A wooden recipe box of handwritten recipe cards beside a cookbook stand, a vintage kitchen timer and a cup of coffee.

The Recipe Box

Plush Throw

A farmhouse kitchen table set with a plaid tablecloth, stoneware plates, a bread basket and a ceramic pitcher in snowy window light.

The Kitchen Table

The Mudroom Rules

Every house had them. Nobody wrote them down. Everybody broke them anyway.

  • Boots come off at the door. Socks are a different story.

  • If you find a single mitten, it goes in the basket. Its match is never coming back.

  • Wet snow pants hang on the hook, not on the floor, not on the dog.

  • Cocoa is served in the order people came inside.

  • The sled lives by the door until March, no questions asked.

Consider this your excuse to make the back door the coziest spot in the house this winter.

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