How to Decorate the Tops of Kitchen Cabinets With Greenery

When decorating the tops of your kitchen cabinets with greenery, there are several creative ideas you can use to breathe new life into the kitchen space. Greenery decorations, whether real or fake, can add a sense of health and rejuvenation to your kitchen. Perhaps one of the most underutilized spaces in the kitchen, the tops of your kitchen cabinets are great places for plants and other decorations.

Things You'll Need

• Pottery or baskets
• Plants
• Tape measure

Instructions

1. Determine whether there is enough natural light above your cabinets for real plants to grow. With your curtains drawn back, if you notice that no natural sunlight reaches the area above your cabinets, then you should choose artificial greenery to place above your cabinets.

2. Decide whether you will be able to water the greenery above your cabinets on a regular basis. If the answer is no, then you need to choose artificial greenery.

3. Measure off the available space above your kitchen cabinets and choose plants or vines that will easily fit within this space.

4. Use different-textured baskets or pottery to hold each of your plants, and space them evenly across the cabinets. Or consider hanging a long vine along the edge of your cabinets to create an interesting effect.

References

• Nesting Place; Over the Cabinet Decorating; February 2010