topic Re: Open Shelving in Home

Open Shelving

FlowerBear — Wed, 13 May 2020 20:16:22 GMT

I have seen the open shelving in kitchens alot on the HGTV remodel shows. Always wonder about your dishes getting dusty !

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catter70 — Wed, 13 May 2020 20:33:58 GMT

I do like the look, but I'm sure anything up there would be full of cat hair if not an actual cat.

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Kachina624 — Wed, 13 May 2020 20:44:31 GMT

I think open shelving is very impractical. It's so dusty where I live, I'd have to wash dishes before dinner.

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vermint — Wed, 13 May 2020 20:52:39 GMT

My dishes would get very dusty, especially since there are only 2 of us here. I like the look, but it's not practical...same as so many things shown on TV and in magazines!

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RedTop — Wed, 13 May 2020 21:41:22 GMT

Not just dusty, but likely greasy as well. And I’d also be thinking about flies landing on them in the summertime. Just not for me.

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millieshops — Wed, 13 May 2020 21:49:42 GMT

In addition to the dust, I just don't have so much matchy matchy stuff that my shelves would look so inviting - saw a lovely kitchen on a house tour in an artsy community once. Lots of open shelving as well as some glassed in shelving, but all with stacks of fiestaware and the stacks were done so that all over those shelves everything was in the same order. The husband in that house ran a window shade and curtain business and even the striped curtains were the same Fiestaqware colors.

Cute for that house and artsy town- way more effort to maintain than I'm willing to do. Bad enough I have to unload the dishwasher let alone I have to stack the plates in color order. Oh. no - that's for someone way more ambitious than I am.

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ECBG — Thu, 14 May 2020 00:04:37 GMT

I don't think open shelving is at all hygienic.

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Mary Bailey — Thu, 14 May 2020 00:09:23 GMT

Definately not me.

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software — Thu, 14 May 2020 01:14:46 GMT

Shall I start a list of what I see on HGTV that I don't like?

I don't like open concept. I don't want to feel like I'm living in a gymnasium

Wide doorways are as far as I would go.

A front porch. I love Hometown but not everyone loves a front porch. I don't want anything covering my windows & doors.

Open shelving in the kitchen is ok in small doses. If you have an awkward space near a window or an overhead vent, maybe, but only for items you use often.

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shoptilyadropagain — Thu, 14 May 2020 02:22:32 GMT

I've never cared for this look when used in place of cabinets.

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godi — Thu, 14 May 2020 11:14:54 GMT

I think they have open shelving on those shows so they can grab the stuff quickly. I agree with everyone who said your dishes would be dusty.

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beautybee — Thu, 14 May 2020 11:35:07 GMT

I've never liked open shelving in a kitchen. It looks nice when staged, but with daily use, in my house it would look like a mess.

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PINKdogWOOD — Thu, 14 May 2020 13:07:47 GMT

I do like this look but it certainly means what's inside MUST look great. You need to have clean shelves, maybe with nice shelf paper, a lovely set of dishes and glassware that match nicely together. You must lose the mismatched plastic containers for whatever usage and/or lose it altogether. It just all needs to look great.

I have friends who took off their doors and have open cupboards, looks nice but I have to agree - dust, dirt, whatever gets inside just as it all settles on your furniture. I wouldn't do this but to each her own.

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wilma — Thu, 14 May 2020 14:49:49 GMT

I would not want open shelves in my kitchen for all the reasons others posted.

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wilma — Thu, 14 May 2020 14:50:29 GMT

@catter70 wrote:
I do like the look, but I'm sure anything up there would be full of cat hair if not an actual cat.

@catter70

LOL! 🤣😆

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CelticCrafter — Thu, 14 May 2020 14:51:56 GMT

@software wrote:
Shall I start a list of what I see on HGTV that I don't like?

I don't like open concept. I don't want to feel like I'm living in a gymnasium
Wide doorways are as far as I would go.

A front porch. I love Hometown but not everyone loves a front porch. I don't want anything covering my windows & doors.

Open shelving in the kitchen is ok in small doses. If you have an awkward space near a window or an overhead vent, maybe, but only for items you use often.

I do like porches.

To your list of don't likes I would add wood covered range vents. I can't imagine how you would keep that clean.

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sandy53 — Thu, 14 May 2020 14:57:39 GMT

Remember they are designing for "the look" for people who hardly ever cook or use the stuff in their kitchen. Most of us who cook know this would hardly ever work. Plus a lot of people are just too messy for it to work.

Plus they are doing it because it is cheaper than cabinets.They have to make their budget.

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FlowerBear — Thu, 14 May 2020 15:32:31 GMT

@software There are alot of things I dislike too on the hgtv shows! I dont have FYI or DIY anymore and used to like the Snow Sisters.

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FlowerBear — Thu, 14 May 2020 15:33:40 GMT

my cabinets are always messy im glad the inside cant be seen lol

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lOVETOSHOP — Fri, 15 May 2020 04:06:08 GMT

I've always disliked open shelving because of the dust/dirt issue.

I have a baker's rack in my kitchen, and it held mostly serving bowls, Temptations bakeware and casserole dishes, all of which I didn't have room for in my kitchen cabinets. One time I made a batch of rice pudding for some friends. We were running late, and my husband said he would put the rice pudding in a bowl for me and cover it with plastic wrap. He grabbed a big bowl off the baker's rack and proceeded to spoon the rice pudding from the saucepan I had cooked it in. When I realized where he had gotten the bowl from, I screeched "you DID wash that bowl first, right?" He looked at me puzzled and replied no, that he hadn't...and why would he have needed to?

Gotta love men...they have NO clue!!