I saw this on a friends FB page. I love the idea of the trap door in the floor for a wine cellar or pantry. This one eliminates all the cabinets/appliances you can put in the island though! Here I am making my island bigger and bigger to get more into it!

This is simply amazing

We have a 500-bottle "wine cellar" in our garage. I put quotation marks around the words "wine cellar" because it is a unit within the garage that has a heavy-duty WhisperKOOL cooler. It is not a separate, walk-in room. It was built by Vinothéque, a company in Stockton, California, that no longer makes wine cellars. But, you can learn all about How To Build A Wine Cellar by watching a video on the WhisperKOOL site.

Ice cold vodka in an ice cold shot glass is a joy. I like it in the winter for some reason. I keep a small glass bottle in the freezer marked ANTIFREEZE. It's kind of sweet, almost minty, a little more viscous so it gives an interesting mouth feel, and no harshness at all. I have drunk with Russians who said 1) ice cold 2) down the whole shot, no sipping. I prefer to sip as long as it stays cold. Those guys brought some Russian vodka with a Russian label, the stuff they don't export, and it was delish.