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How To Style Your Open Kitchen Shelving
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Open kitchen shelving is an interior design trend that will always feel new. If you have kitchen shelves and you’re looking for a new theme, you should learn how to style your open kitchen shelving. Regarding versatility and ease, nothing compares to open kitchen shelves.
As a mainstay trend, open kitchen shelving will remain a popular theme for kitchens of all styles. Time has shown that history favors open shelving over covered cabinetry.
What Is The History Around Open Shelving Kitchen
Open kitchen shelving began in the early 30s in the US. It was during the Great Depression when home kitchens chose open shelves over covered cabinets. Then, it wasn’t about style but convenience. Open shelving offers easy and quick access to tableware.
The Most Common Kitchen Shelf Ideas
If you have a small kitchen an open shelf design would add space and style to your kitchen. For example, open corner shelves would provide you with more storage. You might have a few items that you’re proud of and want to show off to your guests. Even a vintage wine bottle or an antique wine decanter would look nice perched on an open corner shelf.
Modern rustic or industrial chic are popular with larger kitchens.
Kitchen Wall Shelves
Kitchen wall shelves add space and provide storage. Cantilevered open shelves or horizontal stack open shelving are both good choices for showcasing your antique tableware or china soup bowls. There are also floating or wall-mounted shelves, and both are affordable options and easy to install.
If you choose floating kitchen shelves, make sure they’re right for your kitchen. If you going for a linear setup, then the shelf style will complement your kitchen design. The only problem that homeowners have had is with dust.
With your tableware out in the open, it will accumulate dust just like everything else in your home.
Small Kitchen Shelf
A small kitchen shelf is a blessing and an opportunity to explore your creative design abilities. You don’t have to go overboard on this one. If you’re looking for a DIY kitchen project, then making a small kitchen shelf will be good practice for when you get a larger kitchen.
If you have a small window space, design short kitchen curtains to go with your small kitchen shelf.
Corner Open Shelving Kitchen
You can’t beat the convenience of a corner-open shelving kitchen. The shelves are cheaper than anything else you’ll find. They also provide added storage space. You don’t have to put plates or cups on the shelves. You can reserve the space for special photos or artwork.
Modern Open Shelving Kitchen
You can create modern open shelves with metal, wood, or glass. The idea is about finding a mixture and balance. And like the other open-shelf styles, they’re cheaper.
If you like informal and formal at the same time then this modern kitchen shelf approach will stimulate your kitchen and add a touch of metropolitan chic to your cooking space.
Farmhouse Open Shelving Kitchen
A farmhouse open shelving kitchen is hot due to the cottage core trend that’s emerging in US households. If you want your kitchen to have a rustic or ranch feel, then this shelf style will fit right in with your country decor.
How To Install Kitchen Shelves
Installing kitchen shelves requires experience. If you have a large kitchen, you’ll need a local interior contractor to do the job. If you have an expensive kitchen, you wouldn’t want to cut corners on a cheap shelf installation job.
However, if you want to install two floating open shelves, you might be able to do it yourself depending on the wall surface where you want to install them. After you select your shelves, you would buy four to six shelving brackets, which aren’t cheap. Shelving brackets come with hanging guides that explain how to attach them to a wall.
Other than that, you would need, which most people already have.
If you’re installing shelves on drywall, you will need drywall anchors to attach the shelving to the wall.
The Best Open Kitchen Shelving Styles For Your Space
Open shelving naysayers wouldn’t dare jump on this kitchen trend. There are ways to style open kitchen shelves to blend with your home and living.
Here are 35 open kitchen style shelves for you to enjoy or choose for your next kitchen:
1. Consider Your Color Palette For Open Shelving
Whether you’re styling throw pillows on your couch, your mantel decor, or your holiday table settings, you always think about your color palette first thing. Whatever you put on on them, everyone can see so it will help if the colors blend well. You can use white vintage corbels to accent your kitchen and shelves.
2. Give Neutral A Try
Neutral palettes are a great place to start with open kitchen shelving. White dishes, wooden cutting boards, and creamy or clear canisters provide a color palette that is easy to switch for special occasions or when you get bored.
3. Add A Splash Of Bright Color
Modern kitchens look good in white but all white and clear can be boring. Treat yourself to some eye candy in the form of a set of brightly colored bowls, or blue antique corbels to display a soup pot. Just a smidge of color will help your shelving feel friendly instead of stark.
4. Try Dual Tones
Looking to achieve color and calm at the same time? Go for the dual tone look. This works well with pastels. When your shelving is full of white and pale blue, it eases the eye more than collected dishes will but your shelves won’t look stark and modern in your farmhouse kitchen.
5. Embrace Mixed Metals
It’s inevitable that you will have some mixed metals among your kitchen gadgets. Consider bringing them out for display instead of hiding them away. Copper, brass, and stainless steel can be a lovely sparkly combination when you put them together.
6. Style Your Metal
If mixing metals hurts your eyes, there is nothing wrong with choosing one.
Accents of gold can bring the bling to your kitchen shelving. Copper feels old and storied while stainless steel is modern and clean. Decide what kind of feel you’re going for first and style your metal from there.
7. Mix Textures
When you’re styling out your bookshelf or your couch, you think about both color and texture to bring depth to your space. Open shelving can work that way too. By adding a basket, a marble serving platter, and a wooden bowl, you bring together different textures instead of one flat ceramic look.
8. Always Add Plants
When in doubt, add plants. This is a universal decorating rule for all surfaces. They are the perfect opportunity for something viney and trailing that will bring depth to your shelves.
9. Mount Art Work
With cantilever open shelves, art is another display option. A piece of art on an open shelf will give you something nice to look at while you cook or clean. It will also make your open shelves chic and Instagram-ready.
10. Place Antiques
Working on open shelving in your DIY farmhouse kitchen? You can go antique shopping, which is an adventure. Vintage plate racks and antique shelf corbels would enliven your kitchen. Look for things that are useful so you aren’t filling your shelves with clutter.
11. Use Non-Conventional Decorations
Open shelving isn’t for dishes and glassware. Fill empty spots with candlesticks or cookbooks or wooden bowls. Decorate as much as you store for a well-rounded set of open shelves. {found on amberinteriordesign}.
12. Play With Patterns
One super simple way to take your open shelves from a modern masterpiece to family-friendly is to add a pattern. Colored glasses with designs will be a fun addition to your shelves. Maybe some patterned bowls for ice cream. Opt for something that will make you and the kids smile, on and off the shelves.
13. Feel Free To Personalize
One of the best things about eclectic decorating is the permission to skip the rules and do what feels good to you.
Fill your shelves with your favorite dishes, DIY storage, and that candlestick you bought in Iceland. Make your open shelves a place of joy in your kitchen.
14. Vary The Heights Of Your Decor
Whether you’re designing modern shelving or putting together an eclectic beauty, you always want to vary the height of what you have on display. Rows of dishes, all the same height is okay for storage but interest requires making the eye move up and down over your collection.
15. Change Your Décor With The Holidays
Don’t forget to change up your open shelving seasonally! Add some evergreen boughs for Christmastime. Display a pumpkin in the Fall. Bring out your lemonade pitcher in Summer. Switch out vases of flowers in Spring. Make your shelving reflect the seasonal decor in the rest of your home.
16. Storage Solution
Sometimes open shelving is for storage, due to the size of the kitchen. Line up your drink ware on your open shelves for easy access while cocktail making or hot chocolate sipping.
Clear glassware will keep things from seeming too cluttered even if you’ve filled all the space on your shelves.
17. Fill Big Glass Jars
Need a spot to store snacks and baking supplies? Line your open shelves with big glass jars. Farmhouse kitchens in particular will benefit from this kind of storage, filling empty wall space in the kitchen in a practical yet beautiful way.
18. Hang Items From Hooks
Open shelving isn’t just a surface for storage. Use hooks underneath to double your space! Hang your mugs or cooking utensils or small pots and pans. It’s the perfect solution for small kitchens.
19. Put Your Corners To Work
Many times, it’s strange for open shelving to span just one wall. Don’t be afraid to turn the corner. Unlike cabinetry, where things that get pushed into dark corners are never seen again, corners in open shelving just provide a spot for maybe a bigger pot or pitcher.
20. Don’t Forget Light Fixtures
Whether your kitchen is modern or rustic, or cluttered or clean, with one shelf or all shelving, consider adding sconces as a final touch.
They’ll help you light up the darkest corners of your kitchen and highlight your beautiful open shelf styling against your kitchen cabinets.
21. Avoid Overcrowding
Just as empty open kitchen shelving will look a bit strange, so too will your shelves look strange if they are overloaded with items. Try to keep them clear of clutter, because if items are overcrowded, this may make your kitchen look smaller, even with the open cabinet design. If you have a small space such as this one featured in Small Space Designer, you can still get the most out of your shelving without piling them full of items by being organized and selective of the items you place.
22. Design Your Shelves With Mirrors
Everyone knows adding mirrors is the best way to make any small place seem bigger. Thus, if you have a small kitchen and are looking at open kitchen shelving to make it seem bigger, don’t hesitate to install mirrors above and below the shelves. You can also give your mirror a rustic look like this one featured in Architectural Digest for kitchens seeking a more rustic feel while still wanting to embrace the room expansion benefits of mirrors.
23. Decorate The Area Underneath
Open kitchen shelving may be saving you space, but this doesn’t mean you need to leave the area underneath your shelves barren. Consider leaning a wooden cutting board against the wall or possibly placing your glass jars here. Or if you use live herbs in your kitchen, this could be a great spot for these as well. In this kitchen by Pardon My French Blog, the area underneath the open shelving is used for appliances.
24. Display Your Collection
For those struggling to fill their open kitchen shelving, this is a great time to put something you may collect to use! Do you have shot glasses from all over the world? Arrange them on a higher shelf! Or maybe you have a bunch of small animal figurines, these could go on your shelves as well! Omenga PLC features a beautiful kitchen in which an old bottle collection is featured on the top shelf with a mixture of plants for a rustic look.
25. Check Your Shelves From A Distance
One of the most crucial things to remember as you go through the process of setting up and decorating your spacious open kitchen shelves is to step back and see how your shelves look from a distance.
This can help you maintain balance and symmetry, especially when you have longer shelves, or two sections of shelves like in this kitchen on Just Organized. This way you can avoid an uneven look or feel in your kitchen.
26. Make A Pantry With Open Shelves
Have you fallen in love with open shelving yet? Beyond just the traditional open kitchen shelving which goes above your counter space, you may also want to consider creating a pantry with the open shelving system. This will make it much easier to find the exact ingredients when you need them! In Jen Loves Kev open shelving was used to make a pantry out of an unused wall in the kitchen.
27. Remove Cabinet Doors
If you are reading this article and are disappointed because your kitchen is still outfitted with regular kitchen cabinets, don’t fret! You can easily create open shelving out of your existing cabinets by removing the doors and sprucing up the inside with a paint job. The owners of this kitchen in Perfectly Imperfect Blog did just that, making their kitchen more modern and you can’t tell they weren’t open style shelving in the first place.
28. Start With A Few Small Shelves
Maybe you aren’t ready to take the leap into a kitchen full of open shelving just yet. And this is okay, you can start small with a few well-placed shelves in a place where you need more shelving but there isn’t room for a full cabinet. In Cabinet City, the owners of this kitchen enjoy three extra shelves of space to store their dishes and jars of ingredients while still maintaining their glassware in a cabinet.
29. Explore Alternative Shelving
When you think of shelving, you think of wooden boards attached to the walls. But this doesn’t always have to be the case. You can create your nontraditional shelves using metal, glass, or both, like these awesome hanging open shelves by Katie Hackworth. This is also the perfect time to consider repurposing old furniture, such as a door or wooden table as open shelves for your kitchen.
30. Cluster Items
This may sound a bit odd, but when you group your items into clusters this will make them more aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
Take any jars you may have and cluster them into groups of no more than three. You can also cluster any collectibles you may have on the shelf. And you don’t have to just cluster items which are similar. You’ll be surprised by how good completely different items may look together like in this kitchen on Trendir.
31. Show Off Your Cookware
Although shelves are typically used for serving ware such as plates and bowls, don’t be afraid to use open kitchen shelving to display your pots and pans as well. You’ll benefit from this idea most if you have matching cookware such as in Mel And Liza Blogspot. But for people pots and pans don’t match, don’t write off this idea too quickly, as you can alternate your cookware with plates for a unique aesthetic.
32. Build A Bar
Always wanted a bar in your kitchen but never had the space? With open space kitchen shelving, you can create your bar on any open wall in your kitchen. Then you’ll just need to buy some fancy glassware and a shaker and you will be in business.
This idea is best implied over a sink space like in Architectural Digest, but you can build a bar over any countertop space.
33. Organize Your Shelves According To Use
Besides just being selective of the items you place on your open kitchen shelves; you should also be aware of where you are putting items. For example, put the dishes and spices you use daily on the lower shelf that is easy to reach while storing that pan you only use for special events on the top shelf.
You can even organize your items by where you will use them, such as in Inspired Kitchen Design, where the tea mugs are conveniently stored above the hot water boiler.
34. Use Baskets To Control Clutter
Baskets are a great remedy for clutter. Not only can you fill them with whatever you would like, but you can also label them for quick selection. Even if you don’t have clutter to control, baskets can also be added to your shelving as decoration.
35. Pen A Positive Message
After spending hours making your kitchen look great, it’s time for the last touch.
Hang a message board next to your small kitchen curtains or a DIY mini chalkboard so you can leave messages for your family members. May want to consider building your shelves on a chalkboard background. Then you can use it to label where things should be placed like Next Luxury did for this cute coffee bar with open shelving and gray-beige cabinets.
Open shelving is one way you can change the look of your kitchen. If you are looking at shelving to save space, or to get organized, it is a good remedy for your kitchen storage problems. Many tips from this list can be used to change your shelves to match a season. No matter which idea you choose, your open kitchen shelves are sure to look grand.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)FAQ
What To Put On Open Kitchen Shelves?
With open kitchen shelves, the question isn’t what you should but rather what you can’t put on them. The point here is that depending on your kitchen’s theme, it’s anything goes. Most people will showcase their nicest tableware, while others might want to display an expensive bottle of wine.
How To Decorate Kitchen Shelves?
When decorating kitchen shelves, you first need to identify what you want. If your kitchen has a theme, then follow it. You can also use a kitchen shelf as an opportunity to accent the space with unique color. Do not be afraid to color clash the kitchen’s decor with an odd item or two.
How To Style Open Kitchen Shelves?
Before choosing a style for your open kitchen shelves, choose a color or specific pattern and design everything around that. Monochromatic color styles are popular and offer a chic-minimalist approach.
Open Kitchen Shelving ConclusionWith open kitchen shelving, you have a variety of design options. The shelves are cheap and provide space for storage or displaying items. You can make the shelves your next DIY kitchen cabinet project with ease.
The biggest and maybe sole gripe about open kitchen shelves is how they collect dust. Everyone will agree that the shelves make access to plates and glasses easier.
All you have to do is grab and go.
Open shelves are ideal for smaller kitchens as cabinets consume too much space while robbing you of added storage opportunities. For those who like to cook and spend hours each day in the kitchen, open shelves allow you to see what cooking ingredients. Some days opening a cabinet is too much.
If you’re on the fence about open kitchen shelving, one test that might work would be to remove your kitchen cabinet doors from your kitchen cabinets. The openness will give you a feeling of what it’s like to have open kitchen shelving.
25 Best Open Shelving Kitchen Ideas
David TsayHave you seen open shelving in a kitchen? Although gorgeous, you might quick to rule it out for yourself: Maybe you're worried about having enough to fill them, or you don't know quite how to style the shelves, or you're just worried about how to install them. We're here to help—and show you the beauty that open shelves can add to your kitchen, no matter its size or style! Ree Drummond's open shelving in The Lodge's kitchen is a case in point: They add a great pop of color to the kitchen, and Ree has all of her favorite new cookbooks within easy reach!
Open shelves can instantly add depth and make a room feel more inviting, whether you're restyling your kitchen decor or just improving of your pantry organization setup.
And you can customize the shelves as you need for kitchen storage. For instance, many of these shelves are natural wood, which are perfect for displaying antiques or everyday bowls, plates, and cups. Or, you might be inspired by the kitchen with custom gold shelves framing the stove, decorated with thoughtful pieces. Either way, these examples prove that open shelving kitchen ideas are suitable for either casual decorators or design-oriented homeowners. Once you reach the end of this gallery, you'll feel much more confident about applying this kitchen trend to your own home.
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Hang a Shelf Over the Stove
Buff StricklandHang a long decorative shelf over your stove, just like Ree Drummond has in her kitchen at The Lodge. This shelf is hung with rope and used to display colorful dinnerware.
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Display Appliances
Kevin J. MiyazakiSteal Ree's style by using your shelves to show off your favorite kitchen appliances, as she does here in her pantry.
You're likely to use them more often when they're so easy to access.
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Display Your Utensils
Alison GooteeWith open shelves, function is a top priority! Use them to display the items you reach for on a daily basis, like your favorite cooking utensils.
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Make a Pantry Display
Ana Drr / EyeEm//Getty ImagesGlass jars keep oats, herbs, pasta, and cereal fresh and look super cute lined up together. Plus, they're the perfect excuse to design your own adorable labels jar labels.
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Add Hints of Copper
David TsayAdd copper accents on your shelves for a touch of rustic glam. These look even better against an emerald green backsplash.
See more at Justina Blakeney.
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Display Antiques
Kevin J.
MiyazakiOpen shelves are a perfect opportunity to show off your favorite antiques. These silver platters, glass bowls, and wooden boards look beautiful on display together.
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Add Ambient Lighting
Thrifty Decor ChickShowcase your beautiful dishware with lights like an art gallery! While this blogger talks about under cabinet lighting, her DIY lights can easily be applied to open shelves.
See more at Thrifty Decor Chick.
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Layer Plates
Alison GooteeIf you have plates that aren't often seen, go ahead and use them to fill your shelves. A row of equally colorful cookbooks will add an extra pop.
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Color Coordinate Dishes
Muriel de Seze//Getty ImagesColor coordinating will make your whole kitchen look more cohesive. Assign each open shelf a distinct color, or use an overall color scheme like blue, green, and teal.
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Install Hanging Hooks
Buy Chna Wichya Ngkur / EyeEm//Getty ImagesHooks are a great way to maximize space and add cute decoration to your kitchen. You can either install a wall-mounted rack with S hooks or use a few slide-on hooks. They're perfect for hanging utensils or strings of garlic!
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Make a Bar Nook
Kevin J. MiyazakiImplement open shelving for a bar nook in your kitchen, like Ladd's brother Tim and his wife Missy did in their home.
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Spruce Up a Corner
Buff StricklandMake the most of the wall space in your kitchen by adding open shelving in a corner, as Ree did in the kitchen at The Lodge. A variety of colorful dinnerware is on display that's both visually appealing and useful.
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Arrange Potted Plants
Alison GooteeA few colorful potted plants will immediately brighten up your shelves.
Plants work with any type of décor!
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Use Live-Edge Floating Shelves
DIY in PDXInstalling these floating shelves instantly transforms a kitchen wall. The live-edge shelves pair beautifully with white dinnerware and a selection of plants.
See more at DIY in PDX.
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Keep It Simple
Kevin J. MiyazakiThese wood shelves match the butcher block below. Don't worry about how you arrange your dishes or glasses—anything goes!
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Hang Pots and Pans By Size
Sebastian Schollmeyer / EyeEm//Getty ImagesHanging pots are a great way to give your kitchen a rustic-chic edge and when you line them up by size, it makes cooking a breeze! The same can be said for pans and cooking utensils.
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Mix Wood and Whites
Stacey BrandfordWood shelves pop against this gray and white kitchen.
These shelves are so gorgeous that pretty much anything you put on them will look fantastic.
See more at Lark and Linen.
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Be Practical
The MerrythoughtStoring everyday items likes pots, pans, and dinnerware on your open shelves is an easy way to avoid dust piling up. You'll be moving these items around constantly, so they'll be cleaned often.
See more at The Merrythought.
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Use Pops of Greenery
Rooms for Rent BlogDot your shelves with small potted plants for pops of greenery, especially in a sunny corner of your kitchen. This blogger also includes design tips on how to style your items.
See more at Rooms for Rent Blog.
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Frame Your Stove
Addison's WonderlandYour eye goes goes straight to the striking gold shelves in this chic kitchen.
Placing decorative pitchers, vases, and plants on them will maximize the look.
See more at Addison's Wonderland.
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How to decorate open shelves in the kitchen: 6 beautiful ideas
As a rule, open shelves in the kitchen are chosen for several purposes. The first and main one is saving on the upper modules. So it turns out to significantly reduce the budget for the purchase of a kitchen set. The second reason is the lack of need for storage systems, the desire to decorate the kitchen with open shelves. And the third is the visual relief of the interior. When choosing open shelves, you need to remember that they decorate the interior only if you keep them in order and ... decorate them correctly.
An important point: they rarely choose one thing for decor - only plates, only vases or jars of cereals. More often than not, several things are combined. We have collected decor ideas that can be combined.
1 Identical jars with inscriptions
If the main purpose of the shelves for you is still storage, put jars with cereals, cookies, flour or coffee there. This will save you space in your kitchen cabinets.
And to make it look aesthetically pleasing, choose the same jars and add them with stickers indicating what exactly is stored in this jar. It will be easier to keep order.
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2 Retro details
Retro fashion continues. If you like this style, you can dilute the composition on the kitchen shelves with one or two retro details.
It is desirable that such details do not stand out from the general interior of the kitchen. If you have modern minimalism, then vintage will not fit into the style. But in the Scandinavian style, country or mid-century modern - yes.
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3 Beautiful dishes
Sometimes shelves can serve as a sideboard, where they put not everyday dishes, but beautiful specimens. But this is not entirely practical. There you can store the dishes that you use all the time, but of course it must be aesthetic. Keep in mind that dishes on open shelves inevitably collect dust. It will have to be washed before use.
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4 Ceramics
Vases, figurines and other ceramic decorations can also be used to decorate open shelves. But don't overdo it. The fact is that such decor looks organic when it is dear to the owners - for example, you brought a figurine from travels or received it as a gift from a loved one.
Buying special vases and figurines just for the sake of decoration is a direct way to clutter up the kitchen space.
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5 Paintings and Posters
The kitchen also has room for framed paintings, photos or posters. Moreover, it does not have to be something in the kitchen theme, like images of fruits or a cup of coffee. Choose a picture according to the style of the interior. It can be landscapes, abstraction, anything.
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6 Plants
There is debate about whether live plants can be put in the kitchen. Some believe that this is unnecessary, since the humidity and elevated temperatures in the cooking area can negatively affect the greens.
If the open shelves are not located above the stove and you know how to properly care for the flower, this step is quite possible to decide. But if you are not sure, choose artificial analogues - such that they are as similar as possible in appearance to real greens.
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Quite! Such a solution has many advantages. Firstly, it's very simple - you don't need to be a professional designer to use these simple tricks. Secondly, the interior will look unusual and fresh, since in our country such a design is rarely used so far.
So let's take courage, get inspired by beautiful photos and create a kitchen decor with shelves that will turn it into a cozy, cute and functional space.
Will an open-shelf kitchen suit you?
Almost everyone likes the decor of a kitchen with open shelves. There are two main points that confuse when decorating such an interior:
- Instead of open shelves, you could hang cabinets with doors and use them to store a large number of items.
- In the kitchen, when cooking, a lot of fat and soot is formed, and decor placed on open shelves will be difficult to clean from dirt.
The first problem used to be really relevant. In five-meter kitchens, literally every centimeter of area had to be used. But in modern houses there are more kitchens, so you can think not only about where to place all the kitchen utensils and appliances, but also about how to do it beautifully and stylishly.
It is really difficult and time-consuming to clean decorative objects from grease and burning. But the problem is solved by installing a high-quality, powerful hood. In addition, electric stoves produce an order of magnitude less pollution, so it will be easier for owners of induction cooktops to keep the kitchen clean.
By and large, the decor in the kitchen with open shelves can be adapted to any room. After all, even in the smallest room you can find a place for one open shelf. Most of us spend quite a lot of time in the kitchen: and it's not just about cooking, but also about family dinners and gatherings with friends.
So this room deserves to be beautiful, cozy and stylish.
Perfect open shelves
In order to create a harmonious kitchen decor with open shelves, it is important not only to choose the right accessories, but also to hang the right shelves. The main rule to follow: the more concise the design of the shelves, the more items you can arrange. A large number of accessories on massive shelves that have their own decor will look redundant and cumbersome. In many cases, minimalism comes to the rescue. Then there will be no question of how to decorate the shelves in the kitchen, since a huge number of options will do.
The easiest way to choose kitchen decor for shelves is if they:
- have a simple and concise design, ideally they are one plank;
- are painted in a neutral, background color, possibly matching the tone of the wall.
By the way, such minimalist shelves look spectacular in almost any interior, because:
- make the space lighter, filled with air;
- do not overload clearance;
- visually enlarge small rooms;
- offer a convenient option for storing items and things that should always be at hand.
The decor of open shelves in the kitchen is easy to change, and this is another advantage. If the furniture itself is made minimalistic, then by changing the accessories, you can set the interior in different stylistic directions. This is a more functional and practical option, which gives a wide space for further action.
It is not necessary to use hanging shelves to decorate the kitchen - you can put an open rack. Of course, this is not the most universal solution. Furniture takes up quite a lot of space on the floor and is only suitable for spacious kitchens. Nevertheless, in some situations, the decor for the kitchen on the shelves of an open rack can look no less advantageous than in the case of hanging shelves.
How to decorate the shelves in the kitchen: the best decor ideas
- Closed jars for bulk products and spices.
Kitchen decor in the form of glass or tin cans is probably the first thing that comes to mind.
This solution is ideal for the area above the work area. You can store spices, tea, cookies and snacks, pasta and cereals in jars. It turns out beautifully and functionally, because during cooking everything will be at hand.
- Cookware.
Kitchen utensils are suitable for kitchen décor. Frying pans, pots, ladles, bowls - all this can be arranged beautifully. Of course, the dishes themselves should also have an attractive appearance - for example, copper. Stainless steel pots polished to a shine, and cast-iron cauldrons, and glass stewpans will also look beautiful.
- Tableware.
The idea of using tableware for decorating shelves in the kitchen is not new. Surely, many at one time had elegant dishes in sideboards. So that this way of decorating the kitchen does not look old-fashioned, you need to choose the right service. It should fit the style of the interior: for example, in a Provence-style kitchen, a set of dishes lavishly decorated with gold will look strange.
You can effectively combine dishes from different collections. The main thing is that it fits the overall stylistic decision of the interior.
- Indoor plants.
Decorating open shelves in the kitchen with houseplants is always a good idea that is easy to implement in any interior. Succulents in small pots or climbing vines - you can pick up flowers that will successfully fit into a particular environment.
By the way, if you are afraid that plants will be uncomfortable in conditions of high humidity and temperature in the kitchen, you can use artificial flowers. They look great all year round, require no watering, and are easy to clean.
- Cutting boards.
They are rarely used as a decorative item - and in vain. A stone or wooden board looks attractive and will decorate the interior.
- Photo frames.
