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Amy McArdle

'It's Wasted Space!' - 4 Items to Decorate the Top of Kitchen Cabinets That Marry Practicality and Style

A modern kitchen with wooden cabinetry and stoneware vases displayed on top.

Kitchens are all quite similar. Sure, there's great variety in colors, styles, and layouts but, generally speaking, they're all much the same. Almost every single one you step foot in will have a hob, a sink, a countertop, and - for the vast majority of us - that awkward space above the upper cabinets.

Unless you've opted for a trend like open shelving, you probably have upper cabinets in your modern kitchen, and you probably struggle to know what to do with the space above them. It's too high up to be convenient storage meaning they often end up gathering dust but, as interior designers point out, this wasted space can be the perfect place to display a curation of objet that marries practicality and style. 

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