Open kitchen shelves is a style of shelving with a surprising amount of controversy surrounding it. Sure, it displays all of your beautiful plates, mugs, cups, and bowls, but it also means displaying all of your not so beautiful plates, mugs, cups, and bowls. While some people love it and others love to hate it, open shelving is a trend that’s being seen more and more these days.
Love it or hate it, here are 34 examples of kitchens that have done open shelving in a variety of different ways.
Kitchen Shelves Wood
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Stockholm Residence-open shelving in kitchen, vintage light-12-1 Kind Design
Kitchen Shelves Glass
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Easy shelf ideas that you can DIY pipe brackets
Kitchen Shelves Diy
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Kitchen Shelves For Wall
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So wirken kleine Küchen größer!
Kitchen Shelves Corner
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Modern Style Open Shelves Kitchen Ideas #KitchenStorage #ModernKitchen #ShelvingIdeas
Kitchen Shelves White
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We love open shelving, but forgetting to use the underside is a common mistake. Hang mugs underneath to eke out every drop of storage.
Kitchen Shelves Open
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The kitchen shelves in Country Living editor Sarah Gray Miller’s home were constructed from pipes and plywood. Could paint pipes white & shelves painted black!
Kitchen Shelves Decorating Ideas
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Kitchen Shelves Target
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34 Super Epic Small Kitchen Hacks For Your Household
Kitchen Shelves Liners
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Super affordable way to add kitchen shelves using old crates Remodelista
Kitchen Shelves Metal
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Yet another kitchen that makes me rethink my wishes — a stainless steel exposed fridge and standalone range top were all
Kitchen Shelves Diy
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I think I’ve seen the decorative brackets at Hobby Lobby…and neat how they used the different tiles beneath and the beadboard above
Kitchen Shelves Brackets
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Rustic Wooden Kitchen Shelves with Potted Ferns
Kitchen Wall Shelves
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I like the contrast between the wood and the white and the brass handles are nice too.
Kitchen Shelves With Hooks
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Kitchen Shelves Open
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Kitchen Shelves Stainless Steel
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Open shelves make even the smallest of kitchens feel open and airy!
Kitchen Shelves Wood
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scaffolding plank kitchen shelves <<~~~ Normally I don’t like open shelves, but I like this with the old Mason jars.
Kitchen Shelves White
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Kitchen Shelving with Pot Rack by CopeAndStick on Etsy, $200.00
Kitchen Shelves Floating
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Traditional Two-Tone Kitchen Cabinets #05 (Alno.com, Kitchen-Design-Ideas.org) for the space between kitchen and sliding door
Kitchen Shelves Diy
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Spring Home Tour by TIDBITS. Simple touches of Spring in the Kitchen.
Kitchen Shelves Lowes
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Next best, but not nearly as cool as those curvy ones. Contemporary Kitchen by Blakes London
Kitchen Shelves Ideas
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Light gray and white kitchen boasts a farmhouse sink paired with a copper gooseneck faucet fixed beneath stacked floating wooden shelves mounted on white subway backsplash tiles between gray shaker upper cabinets located above gray lower cabinets finished with oil rubbed bronze hardware and a marble countertop.
Kitchen Shelves Diy
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Kitchen Shelves Over Sink
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Open shelves. Clean lines. Light wood. Baker/Daoust kitchen in Toronto/Remodelista
Kitchen Shelves Wood
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Kitchen Shelves Instead Of Cabinets
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Open Shelves in The Kitchen | Not JUST A Housewife
Kitchen Shelves Wood
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Kitchen Shelves Target
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Open shelving in the kitchen
Kitchen Shelves Over Sink
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Open Kitchen Shelving: Tips for Styling Open Kitchen Shelving #kitchen #shelves #styling
Sliding Kitchen Shelves
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TOP KITCHEN DESIGN TRENDS FOR 2017
Kitchen Shelves With Hooks
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The first thing the owner did after moving in was to yank out the upper cabinets in the kitchen and replace them with shelving from Home Depot. (Photo: Jane Beiles for The New York Times)
Kitchen Shelves Ideas
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The sturdy steel brackets become a design statement themselves.
Kitchen Shelves With Hooks
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