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"Open shelving" Gone Wrong! Need creative ideas for eyesore for resale

9 years ago

My Mom had a kitchen renovation several years ago. She did not get new cabinets as she loved her old ones. She did move a large cabinet to a new location (on far left in this pic) and had a new cabinet built to bridge it together with the existing end of the row drawer bank.

As you can see, it was not finished properly! I forget what even happened, there was a problem with contractor and they never finished this. Not even sure what they were going for here, but I've always hated it. My Mom never cared enough to do anything about it so it has just been like this for years. (Kitchen obsessed readers cringing...?!)

Unfortunately, my Mom passed away and we need to sell the house. We don't plan on putting too much money into fixing it up, and we are not very handy on our own. But I hate to leave this eyesore "as is" because otherwise her kitchen should be a selling point, as its at least been renovated in past 10 years, many in neighborhood haven't.

Any ideas?? I thought at least staining some sort of finishing-trim piece and attaching it to the rough front edge of the shelf would be a first. I wondered if it could be a microwave spot, but theres no outlet in the back of the cabinet or anything. I don't think putting doors on it is very feasible, her cabinets are an old style, and as you can tell, the color was hard to match. My Mom always wanted to put up a tension rod and hang a curtain, but I always thought that'd look sloppy/ridiculous and it wasn't an easy solution anyway, its a bit too wide for a tension rod and hard size to find a curtain for!

Need GW creative ideas! Miss the board, been off for a while, my kitchen was finished end of 2013 and I've enjoyed the break from being kitchen obsessed :-)

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