The Kitchen Cabinet Trend That's Replacing Traditional Wooden Models

Although they do not seem exactly prime for innovation, kitchen cabinets are as impacted by trends as any other part of your home. Open shelves have kind of stolen the spotlight in recent seasons (even if the popular design proves to be a pesky dust magnet), but putting things away will simply never go out of style. And one rising material glittering on the horizon brilliantly splits the difference between those naked planks and totally concealed cupboards: glass front cabinets.

Glass front cabinets can be as opaque or as translucent as you want to make them; items can either only be seen abstractly through frosted panes, or totally visible as though through a window. It's a totally charming way to display glassware — and this is also not the cabinet's first shining moment, either. It also had a mid-century flareup that's seeming to prove timeless, rather than dated. But, being that kitchen renovations are so remarkably expensive, you want to make sure that they'll still seem that way well into tomorrow.

The most glaring glass front cabinet concern is order. If you've already made a hobby out of creating kitchen cabinet organizing solutions, then yours will certainly be pristine. But if you prefer to shuffle your groceries for function instead of fashion, or stack your dishes like nobody's watching, then you probably don't want it all out on display.

Glass front cabinets will also change your cleaning habits. When it comes to wood fronts, you can wipe them down with the cleaner of your choice every once in a while; but if there's one thing glass wants to do, it's smudge. You'll likely find yourself polishing little fingerprints and other unsightly marks at a higher cadence than before. If you have an open kitchen, you might also not want a view of your cereal boxes every time you sit down to watch television. Those fairly low barriers to entry aside, glass front cabinets can make your kitchen feel brighter, they're ideal for displaying your finer items, and they create a crisp, refined kind of look.