When we rented our villa in Auckland, one of the things that I fell in love with immediately in the house was the open shelving in the kitchen. I’ve always been a fan of open shelves, I think it gives a kitchen, a room that can quite often look sterile, a bit of life.
I have to admit that while I was planning our kitchen when we renovated our Sydney apartment, I stayed clear of it even though I loved the look because of my fear of how dirty everything gets. So here was my chance to experience it, and a year later I have to say it’s pretty easy to maintain and I wouldn’t hesitate to do it in our next place.
On Friday night, after enjoying a meal with Annie and her husband Georges, Annie and I made our way into the kitchen and started throwing ideas of how I could change things around and before we knew it, we where standing on chairs cleaning and rearranging everything – at midnight I might add. Is that a female thing to do? I find myself doing crazy things like that at the most unlikely hour and I wonder if I’m the only one? Anyway, the end result is this and I thought I’d take a photo the next morning to share it with you, before it gets too “lived in”.
See you Wednesday!
Mel x
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Yes I find when you have children you don’t get time to yourself often to focus on doing little things like that. I love open shelving as well, it looks lovely and makes accessing things so easy.
Hi Catherine. Oh time… yes that’s another story:) Mel x
Mel-that’s exactly what I do!! Open shelving-love it too. Not enough of it in my kitchen-yet…! X
@Genie – I wonder why that doesn’t happen for me? That’s exactly what I thought would though, I don’t even have an exhaust – perhaps it’s that? x
@Hege – Thank you – Yes it was fun, a glass of wine in hand helped;) x
@Anastasia – I guess everything gets used so much minus the bottles and perhaps the tagine that perhaps that’s why it doesn’t get as dusty as I thought.. x
@Caroline – I’m in good company:) M x
Yes Im a fan of open shelving too although Im sure Id have to dust & clean more but looks great Mel – lovely kitchen! Great chance to show off beautiful kitchenware!
It looks great! Love the colours.
You must have had so much fun!
hx
I like the idea of open shelving, especially if you’ve got lovely things to display and not much stuff, But we have 2 rows of open shelving in your kitchen and I find everything up there gets really greasy. If I want to use anything from those shelves, they have to be washed before use. I wonder if there’s anything that can be done about that?
Oh yes I recognise those gorgeous shelves! :-) I love the way they are built in around the tiled splashback and you’e done a fab job of the styling, including the benchtop! x
Thanks Michelle x
Love it :) I like your idea of the Nespresso vase :)
@ Marie, yes an old Ikea vase is the perfect size! M x
@ Corinne, thank you:) and I knew that I wouldn’t be alone! M x
It looks absolutely lovely! And no you are not the only one deciding that certain changes need to be done immediately, even at unreasonnable hours. Hey were are the creative type so it comes with the territory :)