How to decorate with open storage

With open storage, the kitchen feels both airy and stylish. In addition, you can create a completely unique and personal design together with your most beautiful decoration on display. Below we have collected five ways in which you can furnish your kitchen with open storage.

Combine cabinets with open shelves

In most kitchens, closed storage is an important aspect to succeed in keeping order and order, but there are also many of us who long for visible and decorative furnishings, even in the kitchen. Shelves then become the perfect complement to closed cabinets that give you an opportunity to keep order but at the same time display your favorite tableware.

Open shelves are easy to adapt to the dimensions of the room.

Create a personal expression thru open display.

Shelves that match the worktop.

Built-in shelves

Do you dream of a kitchen where every centimeter is smartly planned, where all the space is used for storage, but at the same time want it to feel airy? Then built-in shelves in an overhead cabinet without a front are the perfect solution. You use every centimeter of the wall but at the same time open it up and get a more airy feeling.

Open shelves are perfect storage but also create an airy feeling.

Open shelving in wood with contrasting natural stone.

The open shelves create a subtle contrast to the smooth doors.

Kitchen island with open storage

With open storage in the kitchen island, it is possible to place serving bowls, jugs and other things that you want to have easy access to at a close distance, but at the same time it also creates a beautiful detail in the kitchen.

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Transform part of your kitchen island into open storage.

Make room for your favorite decorations.

Open compartments as a design detail

A beautiful addition to a built-in kitchen with floor-to-ceiling cupboards is to integrate smaller compartments where you can place the whole family's favorite cookbooks and kitchen decoration. It will be a beautiful feature in the kitchen interior while also being practical when food inspiration strikes.

The built-in compartment from ceiling to floor becomes a beautiful detail in the kitchen.

Collect the whole family's favorite cookbooks close at hand.

Floating shelf

Shelves that feel like they are floating contribute to a sense of airiness and straight lines that help to achieve the harmony between material and color. For a personal expression, place a smaller painting, ceramic jugs or anything else you might be saving for and you have a beautiful still life.

Shelfs without bracket gives a beautiful and minimalist impression.

The illusion of floating shelves contributes to a lovely spaciousness in the kitchen.


Hannah Petersson