Quick and Easy Kitchen Updates

A kitchen may be the hardest working room in the house -- and runs the risk of looking overworked. Give it fresh appeal with these easy ideas.

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Open Up Shelving

Remove upper cabinet doors to give a narrow kitchen a sense of openness. Then set off the revealed shelves with a decorative treatment.

Here's how: Remove cabinet doors and fill in holes with wood filler. Sand until smooth, and paint or stain as desired. If you plan on an applied interior treatment such as wallcovering, prime the interior walls of the cupboard where the covering will be applied.

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