Kitchen without upper cabinets

What's a kitchen without upper cabinets? "Clean and casual," says team interior designer Traci Kearns. "Because there's a bevy of surrounding windows that also contain a lot of mullions, upper cabinetry would have completed with this look."

Tiers of cantilevered shelves get the job done. For stowing away cookware, a central island provides more storage and separates the kitchen from the adjacent dining room and family room.

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