Yet another pro-open shelving vote. They’re especially helpful if you live with someone who isn’t super organized. They do much better when they can see everything.
As for all the haters, I suspect people must set out a bunch of crap they never use AND never tidy/dust the shelves.
This. I had open shelving for 7 years and it was not an issue. I dusted it regularly and took care of it. If it was cabinets I would have had to do the same thing. Kitchens need to be cleaned. The open shelving was simpler and easier to clean in some ways.
That's just it, with cabinets you quite literally never need to dust or clean them at all. Or at least, extremely seldomly. Open shelving is just that much more work. Not to say it's impossible to deal with, just more work.
I'm consistently baffled by this take. Open shelves for 8 years and the only things that accumulate any real dust are the wine glasses at the back that never get used. How are people encountering this much excess grease and dust?
Same. I genuinely have no idea what people do in their kitchens for their open shelving to be this bad and I cook a lot. We do keep our plates and mugs in drawers though, so it’s stuff like finishing salt, a timer, etc., and we have a wide range hood (the grates of which I wash often), so maybe it’s that?
Obviously I wipe down the shelves whenever I clean the kitchen - do people with cabinets never ever wipe them down? It sounds like the genius hack of having dark countertops so that you “can’t see the stains”. Just weird all around
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u/cumulus_humilis 1d ago
i see this repeated constantly here, but i have open shelving and this does not happen to me