Could be left empty.

I thought so too, but the boyfriend thinks it looks more "homey" with stuff. :\

Actually, I wouldn't put anything on them. It doesn't look to me like something is missing. If you really feel like it needs something, maybe a simple mixture of artificial green plants and baskets. Maybe spell out a word or phrase with painted wooden letters: let's eat, yum, ??

I agree. Nothing is the best option. Maybe a fresher paint color on the walls and some art on the big wall on the hallway behind the kitchen. A bowl of something colorful and pretty on the peninsula when you get all unpacked.

Please dont put anything on top of the cabinets. I would spend the money on a ceiling fan and door pulls. and paint the front side of the island. or wait until you can take down the strange half wall, and turn that into an island counter top, move the fridge to the other side, take out one pantry set. add recessed lighting. that is if you own. if not..... leave it the room is heavy with cabinets already.

THANK YOU ALL!! THIS IS OUTRAGEOUSLY HELPFUL - and I am yelling because of it. :) Thank you!!!

Looks like you could really use some colour in this space. I would start with some faux greenery then add something bright. You could buy coloured glass vases under $10-20 at Winners/Homesense, then add tins from your local Dollar Store. While a home is meant to be a place to re-charge oneself it is also where we want to have happy gatherings, great conversations and deep thoughts. So many of the currently popular decor colours are just plain making us as boring as they are.

Oo, I love the ideas for more color too. So awesome. Thank you. :)

A beautiful kitchen Things you would love to see every morning. T liked the idea of letters spelling something out! Then something from nature a large ceramic, or even a favorite large painting.

Your boyfriend is totally wrong. Nothing should go on top, except a light strip, to bounce light up to the ceiling, creating much more atmosphere than a bunch of bric a brac/ tchotchkes/alphabet letters/giant spoons(sorry Margo!), etc.

Please, please no faux greenery.

Tell your boyfriend to get up there and take a nap...would fill up the area and he would realize just how bad something up there would look...kidding,and I'm with everyone else ...leave them empty but add lighting

Nothing please on those cabinets! When will this dated trend to clutter up a perfectly lovely kitchens , end! Especially those words like Yum and Love or Eat - really I hate those. JMHO
Ah feel better now.

Dear Rachel...add an mdf raised panel to the lower cabinet that faces into the adjacent room, paint all of the cabinets and add nicer hardware new countertops in quartz and a large area rug over the tile floors. The stained 3" base molding needs to go. I would invest in 6" replacement base molding that is painted and all doors and trim painted...counter top over hang where I suggested the mdf panel so that you can have bar stools on this side of
the kitchen. New lighting will also, help. If you do most of the work, you could probably
re furbish for $5,000.00

I store my rarely used, but pretty, larger serving dishes. Like cake stands, punch bowl (yes, I still have one), glass pitchers, tiered serving pieces. And things my Grandmother and mother gave me. Pyrex percolator, molcajete, etc.

Nothing at all. You have so many cabinets, can you fit one out for your garbage can so you don't have it out in the open?