Next to our bathroom is a little flight of stairs that goes down,
down, down,
to an underground cellar.
Built into the bluestone foundations of the house, the cellar is several degrees cooler than the rest of the house - essential for keeping perishable food cool in the days before refrigeration.
Most people in Adelaide with old houses like this one use their cellars to store wine. I think it would be wonderful for storing preserves, but at the moment it is storing odds and ends that have no other 'home'. Two of my children think the cellar should be a clubhouse for them to play in.
Have you ever had a house with a cellar? What did you use it for?
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