I have space above our kitchen cabinets and am trying to come with ideas for something to display there. The corner cabinets go to the ceiling and the cabinets above the fridge go to the ceiling. But along the wall from corner cabinet to corner cabinet, there's probably a little over a foot of height for something. On another wall, I have the same space, just not as long. That area has our vintage Snoopy cookie jar; he has always lived above our cabinets, even in the old kitchen. So when we did the kitchen over, Snoopy had to resume his position. He stands guard over the kitchen and has done so since we got him way back in 1971.
It's easy at Christmas as I have certain decorations for the holidays that we put up there now. I collect Santas and will put them up there.
We have lights above the cabinets and we can change the lights around for different colors if we choose. We put a set of old big Christmas bells up there for Christmas; each bell has a different light. It rather reminds me of the northern lights in a way and I've decided to keep the lights there for now; you can't see the bells, but you can see the lights reflected on the wall and the ceiling. But we can always put strands of Christmas-type lights up there to go with holidays: red for Valentine's Day, green for St. Patrick's Day, purple for Easter, etc. I don't know that I really want to do that, though.
No plants or garland-type stuff, real or fake. I do love plants and I can think of some plants that would do beautifully up there because of the light from the sun tunnels, but the cats would eat them for lunch. And Mollipop does sleep up there from time to time. We had garland up there for Christmas and she jumped up and chewed the stuff.
Nothing real heavy. I'm serious. I had stored cookbooks on top of one of the cabinets and the weight from the books actually started to pull the cabinet away from the wall. Rick had to reinforce the cabinet to the wall and he had a difficult time doing it so it looked OK. That was in the old kitchen.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
It's easy at Christmas as I have certain decorations for the holidays that we put up there now. I collect Santas and will put them up there.
We have lights above the cabinets and we can change the lights around for different colors if we choose. We put a set of old big Christmas bells up there for Christmas; each bell has a different light. It rather reminds me of the northern lights in a way and I've decided to keep the lights there for now; you can't see the bells, but you can see the lights reflected on the wall and the ceiling. But we can always put strands of Christmas-type lights up there to go with holidays: red for Valentine's Day, green for St. Patrick's Day, purple for Easter, etc. I don't know that I really want to do that, though.
- I thought about vintage cookie jars (that would fit because I'm always baking cookies), but I'm not sure which ones I'd like. I could check around eBay and see what they have. And check around the antique stores.
- I thought about large vintage mixing bowls, too (that would fit me, too, but I'd want to use them and it would be a hassle to be constantly getting up to pull a bowl down to use and then put it away again).
- I thought about collecting vintage rolling pins, but they're a little difficult to display up there (I have found display forms just for displaying rolling pins, though). I do love old rolling pins. (And, to be honest, I think I may start collecting rolling pins anyway and displaying them on the wall around my spice cabinets. When we were visiting some antique stores on Saturday, I found some old rolling pins that I would love to have in the kitchen.)
- I love collecting old cookie cutters. I have all of Grandma's old metal cookie cutters and I'll put them in a basket on the hutch sometimes, just to display them. Kind of hard to put cookie cutters up there, though
No plants or garland-type stuff, real or fake. I do love plants and I can think of some plants that would do beautifully up there because of the light from the sun tunnels, but the cats would eat them for lunch. And Mollipop does sleep up there from time to time. We had garland up there for Christmas and she jumped up and chewed the stuff.
Nothing real heavy. I'm serious. I had stored cookbooks on top of one of the cabinets and the weight from the books actually started to pull the cabinet away from the wall. Rick had to reinforce the cabinet to the wall and he had a difficult time doing it so it looked OK. That was in the old kitchen.
Any ideas?
Thanks!