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Rebecca Knight

The kitchen storage trend I regret falling for – an open pantry might look great on Instagram, but this is why I ditched mine after 6 months

Wooden shelves with kilner jars filled with dried food.

Over the course of my adult life, I've had a total of 6 different kitchens, each of which has featured a questionable trend in some way or another. However, out of all of them, the one kitchen trend I regret falling for over all the others was the open pantry.

When the kitchen trend for open pantries first kicked off a couple of years ago, I was obsessed with the idea of one day turning a corner of my kitchen into a beautiful (and practical) display of fancy olive oils, tinned sardines and jars filled with preserves and pickles. I didn't have the space for one until I moved into my current flat almost a year ago and decided to give it a go.

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