If you have space above your kitchen cabinets...

[eb777888]

Do you decorate it?

I thought I wanted to, I thought I needed to fill the space. I'm looking at Pinterest pictures and I keep thinking these kitchens would look better with less clutter up there. 

What say you, ML?

[stephm0188]

Nope. It kind of grosses me out to think about how greasy and dusty all that stuff is.

[keyslover]

Sept 23, 2013 20:35:09 GMT -5 kevin arnold said:

I decorate mine with dust.

I also add some spider webs.

[eb777888]

Sept 23, 2013 20:35:09 GMT -5 kevin arnold said:

I decorate mine with dust.

Oh, I see we have the same design aesthetic! 

[Deleted]

Noooo.

When I see shit up there at other people's houses I just wonder how dusty it really is.

[jane6672]

If I had them, I would leave them empty.

I don't even have enough decorating gusto for my regular living areas.

[bania]

I have a space above. No I don't decorate it.

[MrsAxilla]

I always thought I'd want to, but I was wrong. It just looks too cluttered. Maybe if I had higher ceilings. Right now I only have our wedding champagne glasses and two empty champagne bottles that my parents had personalized for us for an anniversary.

ETA:  I wash the champagne glasses every few months.  They don't get gross.

[eb777888]

Sept 23, 2013 20:36:08 GMT -5 toledo said:

um, no. Pinterest needs to die.

Actually, I thought I needed to do this five years ago before Pinterest existed. We're just now redoing our cabinets and went to Pinterest for pictures. 

Okay. I'm not going to do this.

Not even the cute EAT letters? No?

[VillainV]

No. Sometimes H tries to put stuff up there for storage, and it drives me crazy. I hate clutter!!!

[eb777888]

Sept 23, 2013 20:37:23 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

I always thought I'd want to, but I was wrong. It just looks too cluttered.

It really does look cluttered. I couldn't find one picture that I liked the way it looked. It looks much cleaner and neater with nothing up there.

[TrickyBob]

My Mom and Grandma always kept their large china up there. Like giant pitchers out of milk glass. Mom keeps Dickens Village Houses up there as well. And one of the cabinets used to have fake flowers up there over the fridge but our old cat kept climbing up there to sleep and knocking them off. Now it has houses.

Our cabinets go to the ceiling and I hate it. I cannot wait until we put in new ones and I can put larger pieces of glass or decorative items up.

[eb777888]

Sept 23, 2013 20:39:52 GMT -5 TrickyBob said:

Our cabinets go to the ceiling and I hate it. I cannot wait until we put in new ones and I can put larger pieces of glass or decorative items up.

I WISH my cabinets went all the way to the ceiling. I like the way that looks. Plus, more cabinet space!

[Miss Phryne Fisher]

I have seen home reno shows where they put some kind of crown molding up there to keep the dust from getting all over them. I know a few people who have put fake vines up there. The amount of dust on that must be staggering.

[underwaterrhymes]

Don't do it.

It's very rarely done well.

[eb777888]

Sept 23, 2013 20:43:45 GMT -5 luckydog said:

Sept 23, 2013 20:35:30 GMT -5 stephm0188 said:

Nope. It kind of grosses me out to think about how greasy and dusty all that stuff is.

Ya. It gets greasy. I had no storage space and HAD to store stuff up there. Never again.

My SIL put pod lights on hers. So it just lights it up. Those were cool.

That is a cool idea! 

[shananagins]

Lights up there look nice. I have a giant spoon and fork hanging on the wall in the space above mine. I like that it fills the space, but doesn't look cluttered. Let me see if I can post a pic. . .

[cereal K]

i do. it started in the old house when i had stuff that didn't fit in my cabinets. 

i like it. and i make sure to take everything down and clean it every few months.

also, H just asked my why i was taking pictures of our cabinets. i told him why. he asked if we were seriously having tops-of-cabinets discussions on the nest. i asked him why he was surprised. he had no answer.



sorry it's blurry.

[eb777888]

Sept 23, 2013 20:47:16 GMT -5 shananagins said:

Lights up there look nice. I have a giant spoon and fork hanging on the wall in the space above mine. I like that it fills the space, but doesn't look cluttered. Let me see if I can post a pic. . .

You have a gorgeous kitchen! I love it.

[ProfessorArtNerd]

Only with the things I take away from Lucy, lol

[eb777888]

Sept 23, 2013 20:51:04 GMT -5 cereal K said:

also, H just asked my why i was taking pictures of our cabinets. i told him why. he asked if we were seriously having tops-of-cabinets discussions on the nest. i asked him why he was surprised. he had no answer.

LOL!! What can I say? I like to keep things exciting around here.

[mommylikestattoos]

No space, our cabinets go to the ceiling. It's extremely unlikely it would be decorated if we had that setup. It'd most likely be a combination of clutter and dust.

[CurlyQ284]

My DH collects starbucks mugs from all the cities he goes to. He has like 30, there's nowhere else to put them so that's where they live. I like the way it looks but we have no more cabinet space so he needs to not go anywhere new lol.

At Christmas I make him pack them up and I put lighted garland up there.

[revolution]

My space is decorated. And I like it. And I don't have a pinterest account

[alicenelson]

Yeah, I've got stuff up there--dishes, wine racks and bottles, bird houses, Mexican pottery...an eclectic assortment. I give everything a thorough cleaning every few months. To me, it gives the kitchen a warm "homey" feel. Makes me happy to look at, so there's that. I like happy.

[cereal K]

Sept 23, 2013 21:01:38 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

See, I would never take the stuff down and clean it. I don't have that level of commitment.

i didn't realize it needed to be done until we recently moved. now i'm committed!!

[cereal K]

Sept 23, 2013 20:54:55 GMT -5 eb777888 said:

Sept 23, 2013 20:51:04 GMT -5 cereal K said:

also, H just asked my why i was taking pictures of our cabinets. i told him why. he asked if we were seriously having tops-of-cabinets discussions on the nest. i asked him why he was surprised. he had no answer.

LOL!! What can I say? I like to keep things exciting around here.

i think the question is really more a testament of how little he understands us!

[maria120]

I don't decorate up there, but I also have crown molding and some of the cabinets are staggered and a bit higher than others, so I think it would look weird.  Also, I'd have no idea what to put up there and kind of prefer the minimalist look.

[kirra]

We don't decorate it. It's just empty space. But I'm in an apartment, and the kitchen is hopeless, so I'm not incredibly motivated.

[muffin0]

I have a picnic basket that is full of cookie cutters, and the mandolin slicer in the box (but that is pushed back so you can't see it)

The people who designed my kitchen need to die a slow and painful death. It's horrible, we have no where for storage.

I told H today after prepping for Thefresh20 that I want to burn the kitchen down.