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Wed 18 Mar 2020 10:12
Cabinets are large and bulky, often waste a lot of space by hard to reach. A good alternative to closed cabinets is open shelving which is now increasingly gaining popularity. Shelves occupy much less visual space, and allow one to decorate the kitchen with tasteful crockery that would otherwise be stowed away. We at Creatalog have curated a list of 10 awesome kitchen shelf design styles to help you renovate your beautiful kitchen into a visually open and free room :
1. Replace Upper cabinets with open shelves
Can't go wrong with this one. As simple as it sounds, just get rid of the cabinets for some open shelving. Decorate your sleek, modern shelves with the tasteful storage containers that you’ve splurged on.. previously hidden away behind cabinet doors.
2. Combine open shelving with Hanging Storage
Alternating between the two styles of storage to creates an all new fresh and non-uniform organic kitchen design style. Hang the utensils and decorate the shelves with ingredients, to give a more cosy look to your beautiful kitchen.
3. Make an Open Pantry
Show off and keep track of your ingredients with an open pantry design. Making the ingredients easy to keep track of with this new trendy beautiful kitchen idea, helps your kitchen feel cohesive and more user friendly to even guests. It’s even easy to put together! Just stack a few shelves on top of each other and decorate them with all the labelled contents of your pantry.
4. Rustic look with live-edge wood shelving
Live edge refers to wooden shelving with an edge that still has some bark attached. This design style is currently a hot design trend. Bring a natural twist to your beautiful kitchen.
5. Put those corners to work
Shelving along the wall is fine but it can be continued along the corners to form a slightly hidden corner shelf space. It can be used to stow away appliances like microwave ovens to have an overall neat appearance, yet still be in reach.
6. Convert Cabinets into open shelves
Instead of removing and replacing entire cabinets with open shelves, consider just removing the cabinet doors and painting the interior of the cabinets. This design provides an aesthetic made up of a unique blend of contemporary cabinets and modern, sleek open shelves for a beautiful kitchen.
7. Add only a few well placed open shelves
It is not required to litter entire kitchen walls with shelving. Just adding a few shelves in places like above the cooking range or along the window can go a long way towards bettering the storage experience while making the kitchen feel more open.
8. Create a drinking bar with open shelves
Line up your coffee or liquor in a beautiful kitchen display and add a few bar stools for a fully functional bar to hang out and pop a cold one at. This trend works magic with kitchen Islands.
9. Consider alternate shelving design styles
Experiment with glass-based shelving designs for even more open visual feel, or go for a farmhouse aesthetic with wood shelves. Mix and match to find your favourite trends to create your own unique design style.
10. Bring your kitchen to life with a shelf full of greens Add a shelf over your kitchen sink and decorate it with some houseplants. This area is known to be moist, and plants thrive well in it. It’s pocket friendly design trend to beautify any sink area.
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Edited on Sat 18 Apr 2020 13:31