When your kitchen is short on space, ekeing out even one more shelf can be helpful. Which brings us to the shelf over the kitchen door. It's a perfect place for storing those kitchenwares that you like to look at:
No door? Try the same thing over a window! We love how each of these examples adds an almost architectural quality to the kitchen, even if the room is plain and devoid of much character.
Do you have a shelf over your kitchen door (or window)? What's on it?
Related: Before and After: My Ikea Shelf Epiphany
(Images via The Martha Blog, A History of Home, A Touch of Country with Natalie, A Girl & a Key, Lumberjocks, Houzz)
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I like the idea of the books. All of those bowls and cake stands have to get super dusty though...
With our third earthquake in a week here in SF, and doorways being the place we go when there's an earthquake, this idea's not for us!
Otherwise, I love any additional kitchen storage ideas.
Mama Gigi, I am also in California. I would put gorgeous baskets up there and it would be a great place to store/ hide additional paper products.
This reminds me of the home of a former ceramics professor of mine - he had shelves (they were quite shallow) over *every* door in his home, that he filled with tiny vases and other porcelain items he had thrown. It was lovely.
Mama Gigi - I'm in SF too, and I do a lot of research on earthquakes and other natural disasters. Just so you're ready for the next bit one, running into a doorway isn't the best way to keep yourself safe in an earthquake, unless you know for certain that it is a strongly enforced, load-bearing doorway. The safest place is underneath a desk or table, with your arms over your head. In most homes, doorways are not particularly strong and leave you exposed to falling or shifting debris.
Plus then you can put shelves over your doorways!
I'm with the other Californians. Nearly had a panic attack just looking at the image as I pictured my favorite ceramics tumbling down in our next quake!