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Casa Quickie: Chicken Wire For Open Shelving
Vintage china cabinets may be beautiful, but their glass doors are too precious for some homes. So if you have an all-wooden armoire or glass china cabinet, you can replace the wooden or glass door façades with chicken coop wire to bring an inherited piece of furniture into the 21st century. Chicken wire offers the visual lightness of glass, but it's less formal — ideal for those of you with eclectic or shabby chic homes.
Do You Have Open Shelving in Your Kitchen?
Open shelving can make ingredients or kitchen tools easy to reach for busy home chefs, but it also requires an extra degree of organization. What's the shelving situation in your kitchen?
Do You Have Open Shelving in Your Kitchen?
Cool Idea: Stenciled Shelving
I recently stumbled upon Craftster member Retroeva's post on her kitchen makeover. While I love the new look, my absolute favorite part of the kitchen is Retroeva's stenciled open shelving.
As you know, I'm a big fan of open shelving.
Casa Quickie: Choose Your Bottles
I love a good knick-knack shelf, but open bathroom storage can be a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, it makes it difficult to hide your more embarrassing toiletries, but on the positive side, you can create pretty vignettes with your most well-designed bottles.
Products from brands such as Bumble and Bumble and CO Bigelow look chic next to simple candles, single flowers, and even old-school blue bottles of calamine lotion.
Do You Have Open Bathroom Storage?
Having open bathroom storage demands that you keep things neat, or are comfortable with mess, and have no embarrassing prescriptions out in the open — that is, if you're expecting guests. In many ways it's just easier to keep things behind closed doors. But open shelving, such as these glass shelves, can make the room seem bigger and also create an elegant display.
Do You Have Open Shelving?
Americans are too attached to their kitchen cupboards. It's as if they'd never considered storage other than upper cabinets. Open shelving can actually make a kitchen feel open, relieving the tight, cramped feeling that many kitchens have, in addition to leaving space to display artwork and other decorative elements.
Other Search Results
Link Time!
- I'm swooning over this dreamy retreat. — AT:SF
- This radio rug is geeky cool. — Craft
- A cheap kitchen makeover with open shelving.
Etsy Find: Janet Hill Studios Paintings
For those of us who daydream over shelter magazine spreads and redecorate in our heads, the paintings of Stratford artist Janet Hill are tempting eye candy. On her Etsy site, she notes, "As a result of living in a cold climate for six months of the year, I've developed a strong interest in the beauty of interiors. My inspiration lies in interior, furniture, and fashion design, as well as films.
Link Time!
- Embroider constellations. — Craft
- Check out wall-mounted bookshelves. — AT:Chicago
- Yay for kitchens with open shelving!
Casa Capsule: The Week That Was
- Debi Mazar's colorful crib is on the market.
- Are you a clothes horse? Then check out this renovated attic!
- Find out how to save money on a vacation house this Summer.
- Flip for these chandeliers made from everyday objects.
- Tour a gorgeous Georgian Colonial home.
- Learn how to prettify your open shelving.
- This chandelier makes a barn look elegant.
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