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Fluted Sideboard Buffet Cabinet with Storage & Open Shelf
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Fluted Sideboard Buffet Cabinet with Storage & Open Shelf

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$270.38
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Closed storage hides clutter; open storage makes a room look lived in. This cabinet does both on purpose: an open top surface for the things in daily use, open shelves in the middle for books and objects, and enclosed cupboards for everything you would rather not look at. The arched door panels and vertical fluting are what carry it in an open-plan kitchen, where a plain box would read as a service unit.

Finish
Walnut, fluted with arched doors
Layout
Open top, open shelves, closed bays
Shelves
3 height positions per bay
Build
PB and MDF, reinforced frame

How it lives in the room

Divide honestly

Decide what goes behind doors before the cabinet arrives. Open shelving punishes indecision — anything that has no home ends up on display.

Set the shelf heights once

Three positions per bay covers stock pots and serving trays at the tall setting, folded linens at the low one. Choose per bay rather than matching them all.

Style the open shelves sparsely

Two or three objects per shelf with air between them. The fluting and the arches are the decoration; the shelves just need to not fight them.

Before you order

Open shelves collect dust in a way closed ones do not, especially in a kitchen where cooking oil carries. Keep the everyday items there and the ornamental ones behind doors, not the other way round.