Various Types of Open Shelves – Standard Guidelines for Shelf Sizing, Installation and Finishing

While cabinets are a kitchen backbone, providing invaluable closed storage space, open shelving is a useful and visually appealing alternative worth incorporating into any kitchen design. Open shelves are perfect for showing off kitchen treasures and dishware, and they can make retrieving and putting things away fast and simple. On the downside, open shelves allow contents to get dirty or dusty faster, and neatness or the lack of it, is always on display.