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A year ago, I bought a house with open shelving in the kitchen. I was a little worried about it, because I had read complaints that dishes get dirty. (I won't even set a dinner party table a day early, because I don't want dust to settle there.) This shelving has been wonderful. I love to look at my dishes and serving pieces, arranged with collectibles, canisters and colorful baskets holding small things. I don't keep more dishes there than what I regularly use, and I rotate the dishes. That is, when clean dishes come out of the dishwasher, they go on the bottom of the stack. Coffee cups are upside-down. When I remodel this kitchen, the open shelves are staying.

Even though the colors are bright and high-contrast, I found the room very restful -- if that's an appropriate description for a work area. Among the other entries, this one made me just relax and go "ahhhhhh."