Seriously, what is up with open kitchen shelving?

[Anonymous]

Open Shelving - it's decoration. Items of complimentary color, sized just right. Assume it's for decoration only, and you're lucky if it's functionality happens to work for you.

[Anonymous]

My friend is a developer and he loves this open kitchen shelving nonsense because it is an easy money in his pocket and makes flipping timeline easier to manage. Way simpler and faster to throw up a couple of shelves by his regular carpenter vs having to plan and then scribe and install many cabinets. Icing is that a year or so later he sometimes gets to install the cabinets for additional profit, lol.

[Anonymous]

It's cheap as is the crappy nosey open floor plans they are solely building now.

[Anonymous]

We have some open shelving and I love it. We use it for our everyday dishes so it doesn’t get dusty or greasy. It’s not near the stove. It makes fishes easy to put away and was a good excuse to get new pretty dishes from Hone Goods.

[Anonymous]

+1

have a few open shelves. i keep my everyday plates, it's very convenient and looks great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have some open shelving and I love it. We use it for our everyday dishes so it doesn’t get dusty or greasy. It’s not near the stove. It makes fishes easy to put away and was a good excuse to get new pretty dishes from Hone Goods.

Dust accumulates. It's gross.

[Anonymous]

It is big in Europe but people in Europe own a lot fewer things than Americans.

The open shelf thing is big with designer Kathryn Ireland
and Joanna Gaines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just do not see the appeal of open kitchen shelves, yet they seem to be a new hot thing in kitchen design. Why? Does everyone else just keep their shit a lot more orderly than I do or have nicer dishes? I expect to see this in tiny apartment kitchens, but it's now all over the design blogs with precisely stacked, white dishes, which seems quite unrealistic to me unless your kitchen is only for show. I don't even much care for glass doors, TBH.

(Also, none of these people have cats who would see open shelving as a great place to lounge? Ours have no interest in our kitchen currently and we've never had to deal with cats trying to get on counters/tables... but I can totally see them considering open shelving to be installed purely for their enjoyment.)

So, does anyone really have this and how do you keep it looking decent? Does it get super dusty around stuff you don't use every day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just do not see the appeal of open kitchen shelves, yet they seem to be a new hot thing in kitchen design. Why? Does everyone else just keep their shit a lot more orderly than I do or have nicer dishes? I expect to see this in tiny apartment kitchens, but it's now all over the design blogs with precisely stacked, white dishes, which seems quite unrealistic to me unless your kitchen is only for show. I don't even much care for glass doors, TBH.

(Also, none of these people have cats who would see open shelving as a great place to lounge? Ours have no interest in our kitchen currently and we've never had to deal with cats trying to get on counters/tables... but I can totally see them considering open shelving to be installed purely for their enjoyment.)

So, does anyone really have this and how do you keep it looking decent? Does it get super dusty around stuff you don't use every day?

Because that design is the cheapest for builders --- which is how we got this farmhouse debacle. The more actual doors or cabinetry or wainscoting you want, the more the builder has to spend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My friend is a developer and he loves this open kitchen shelving nonsense because it is an easy money in his pocket and makes flipping timeline easier to manage. Way simpler and faster to throw up a couple of shelves by his regular carpenter vs having to plan and then scribe and install many cabinets. Icing is that a year or so later he sometimes gets to install the cabinets for additional profit, lol.

This. Open shelving looks like a good idea until you actually start cooking a need a place to store pots and pans and plates.