open shelving and fridge cabinet
Hey you guys!!! You know that i love to get feedback especially ‘before’ not after i make mistakes. These are three pics from left to right of the back kitchen wall, south side of house. Can you please help me with adding open shelving across and over and above fridge?with open shelving over fridge stretching the whole way. We can build a cabinet around fridge, doors will still open all the way to remove veggie drawers at bottom to clean (doesn’t look like it but i tested first) there will be five inches from wall, 2” for frame down left side then 2-3 inch gap. I would like to extend top shelf on right all the way to left, but stop and start above window then continue to left wall above fridge. I am also thinking of right side of fridge for shelving for my orchids with narrow base cabinet below on right side of fridge matching left stove cabinet. I am also attaching inspiration pics, but bits and pieces of each for my ideas. Any thoughts, as usual, appreciated. Previous posts i have made were for my tile behind stove, but want to hold off on that bc i would like to tie this whole wall together a bit better then look at tile placement. I would like to get orchids off of tea table but they do so well at this window. If i put shelves there, i can get more :) and not a cabinet above fridge, just open shelves probably all white window and door trim.
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Comments (11)Appreciate everyone's insight and comments. Going to take another crack at uploading photos/drawings. My wife wants the kitchen to feel open and not so boxed in Likes the look of shelving with decent proportioned white plates, cups, etc. For whatever reason, she's not a fan of glass front cabinets. Perhaps that's because I personally want to go to the ceiling, with well proportioned/not too ornate crown atop the 2nd box to ceiling. She doesn't want "uppers" with glass because she doesn't care to stage pottery or other things up high--wants more functional and open, and both bottom and uppers being glass, doesn't feel right Perhaps if we didn't go to the ceiling with cabs and had just 40/42" cabinets, she'd be ok with a few strategic glass fronts on the single doors. Personally, I don't want to add a soffit and don't care for the open space between crown and 9'foot ceilings. Is there a style that's more "in" these days? I know it boils down to liking it, but our current cabinets (which are pretty beat up) don't go to the ceiling, so I'm looking for something different. At the end of the day, we are both willing to compromise, but appreciate 3rd party opinions. Price of extra cabinets is not going to break us, can certianly do it, just don't want to start re-arranging the entire placement of everything ( walls plumbing etc) as we bought at the peak and i know the cash isn't coming back -- just doing It because we intend to be here another 7-10 and want to be happy in it we have kids and dog, so dog hair points are certainly "on point" Constantly dusting and re-cleaning will be annoying. Current cabs, illustrating window size. Style of new cabs, though not currently intending to drop down to counters will going to ceiling make window proportion look ridiculous ? Can't go much higher with window because 2nd story is cantalever'd Now leaning towards cupboards all the way around, but concerned about looking too boxed in or window being way undersized relative to cabs Thanks for insight and opinions!...See MoreKitchen cabinets -- glass doors and open shelves
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3 years agoThis is the wall i’ll move to next to paint and have to remove these ribbon plates. Do you think the metal bird plates will look good back up here with these?
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3 years agoThis is my living room for the most part, but repainting walls antique white w/ new white longer wider canvas curtains if i can get kitchen done :)
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3 years agoI guess i do have some pink ‘ish’ in my rug! May have to pull a color from it for inside that shelf, i don’t see much of a green in their?
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3 years agoMy mom sent pic of oven for me, now my daughter and i are going to fight over this one! I told Santa i had been good! It’s on now !!!!!
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3 years agoEverdebz, hi sorry got away from the cabinet for a bit. This cabinet i have to move into living room at some point and i will be rough painting it. Thought if i place on a close wall to dining room that the ribbon plates may can be hung in here since i am attempting to clear some kitchen walls . Not sure what color but may do outer trim in white to match room trim then inner back section of cabinet another color for background of plates? Probably should pull a color from rug. Something that will look good with navy love seat. No hurry on this, just looking ahead :)
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