i've just gotten around to tackling this myself. i *think* the best way to handle it is to use a ribbon or strip LED (i'm big on LEDs so not considering anything else) -and run a single strip up the front inside frame on each side. the shelves would have to be cut down a bit to allow for the lights to run up in front of them. i'm going to continue my search, find the lights i'd like to use and show them to my cabinet maker. then he can decide what exactly needs to happen with the shelves. so, while i don't have it worked out yet, i have a basic *idea* of how it should go. i'm hoping someone who has experience with this chimes in. i too would LOVE to know exactly what i'm supposed to do.

We're twins. I'm going through the same thought process myself. First, I found this blogger's thoughts on open shelving to be thorough and helpful: http://dans-le-townhouse.blogspot.com/2014/12/honest-thoughts-on-open-shelving-in.html Second, here are pictures of my old kitchen (inset cabinets) and old living room (traditional overlay cabinets). Notice that on my white cabinetry, glass cabinets actually were the DARKEST thing in the room, not light and airy like I'd imagined. I stored either bright white or clear things in the kitchen shelves and black electronics in the living room shelves. For this reason I'm considering textured glass, which reflects a lot more light back into the room. (I'm also considering solid wood or wood with the bottom shelf open, but I'll make my own post about that when I start having anxiety attacks about the indecision). I know you can light cabinets, but I want my cabinets to make me smile first thing in the morning, before I've turned on the lights. ;)

I was intrigued by this as I remodeled and had a medicine cabinet made by the custom shop that did all my cabinets - it is a miniature of the bathroom cabinet doors. I had no idea of what the shelves were made of as I had never focused on them and hadn't specified that detail. They are wood but they are clad in teal formica - I opted for teal blue interiors in all my cabinets and so they are either formica clad for easy clean up - shelves and sink interiors or painted a matching color. The doors are wood and the glass upper cabines match the wood. They aren't particularly thick but they are certainly strong enough to handle the weight of anything that goes in a medicine cabinet - I don't know what other people put in medicine cabinets but mine holds relatively light weight stuff. I have no problem seeing what is on the top shelf as once objects are on clear glass the shelves are obstructed anyway. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I had glass shelves in my pre-remodel medicine cabinet and both seem fully functional. My new shelves and my old shelves are easily wiped down and perhaps it's me but I've never had anything spill in a medicine cabinet - the main thing to clean was dust that would settle in but the interiors are not any kind of space that needs to be cleaned on a regular basis. I guess the interior of my current cabinet is more "elegant" but my old medicine cabinet was a 60 year old standard issue and nothing about either the interior or the exterior was anything other than plain Jane functional. 😂

We Installed our floors around our cabinets mainly due to timing. That said we have a five foot wide fridge and a five foot built in bar that hasn’t buckled the floor.