This chapter reflects the ‘minor’ spaces and ‘paraphernalia’ within bungalows in provincial Bengal, which were mostly dominated by large drawing rooms, dining rooms, bedrooms and home offices. Often virtually unknown to European inhabitants, or else viewed as secondary or incidental, areas such as kitchens, storerooms, toilets, bathrooms and anterooms were where much of colonial housekeeping, bodily rituals and other day‐to‐day activities took place. Similarly, ordinary elements like doors, windows or furniture also embodied integral aspects of colonial lifestyle. Despite the broad split between dominant and subservient spaces in provincial bungalows based on race, privilege and social hierarchy, the territorial relationships on the ground were far more complex in reality. This narrative reveals how, in the absence of any ‘real’ physical place within the official residence itself, the cook‐room was used to simulate the anticipated spatial arrangement and presentation of food in the dining room. Evidently, such mimicking of situations and spaces were efforts to bridge the gaps in comprehension between apparently diverse cultural practices, but – despite all attempts by the British rulers to maintain the sanctity of their cultural practices – there were inevitable slippages that allowed Indian sensibilities about food preparation and arrangement to seep into the European tables inside.