{"id":2959,"date":"2019-02-24T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thezakariagroup.com\/people-are-ditching-their-upper-kitchen-cabinets-and-i-dont-think-im-on-board\/"},"modified":"2019-02-24T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T17:30:00","slug":"people-are-ditching-their-upper-kitchen-cabinets-and-i-dont-think-im-on-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thezakariagroup.com\/people-are-ditching-their-upper-kitchen-cabinets-and-i-dont-think-im-on-board\/","title":{"rendered":"People Are Ditching Their Upper Kitchen Cabinets and I Don&#8217;t Think I&#8217;m on Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"typeset--default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.apartmenttherapy.info\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto,w_640,c_fit,fl_strip_profile\/https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/pixtruder\/original_images\/246b72e19d0d8d8a99a6c6f9ffdfbf68b14fd585\"><\/div>\n<p>\n\t    Upper cabinets are starting to disappear from kitchens, and I&#8217;m not sure how to feel about it. It all started with the open-shelving phenomenon, and now, in some cases, it has morphed into this total lack of anything structural above the countertops. On the one hand, it is visually beautiful. You can really go to town with tile\u2014think an uninterrupted, ceiling-high wall of subways or a bold geometric backsplash. But on the other hand, where exactly are you supposed to put your stuff? You have drawers and lower cabinets, of course, but can that possibly be enough storage space when kitchens are meant to house all sorts of cookware, appliances, gadgets and serving pieces? I guess if you&#8217;re Marie Kondo, it&#8217;s not a problem. But for the undecided amongst us, let&#8217;s take a look at some kitchens without upper cabinets to see what might motivate someone to live this way.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apartmenttherapy.com\/kitchen-trend-no-upper-cabinets-267232?utm_source=RSS&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Category%2FChannel%3A+Main\"><strong>READ MORE \u00bb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upper cabinets are starting to disappear from kitchens, and I&#8217;m not sure how to feel about it. It all started with the open-shelving phenomenon, and now, in some cases, it has morphed into this total lack of anything structural above the countertops. On the one hand, it is visually beautiful. You can really go to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101010,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>People Are Ditching Their Upper Kitchen Cabinets and I Don&#039;t Think I&#039;m on Board - The Zakaria Group<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thezakariagroup.com\/people-are-ditching-their-upper-kitchen-cabinets-and-i-dont-think-im-on-board\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"People Are Ditching Their Upper Kitchen Cabinets and I Don&#039;t Think I&#039;m on Board - The Zakaria Group\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Upper cabinets are starting to disappear from kitchens, and I&#8217;m not sure how to feel about it. 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