Lately, most of the prettiest kitchens I've seen feature open shelving. Of course, they also have chic storage containers and artfully displayed dishes. If you're working on your own open shelving display, these food storage containers are worth a look.
Of course, even if you're not, they're nice ways to store jewelry, craft supplies, and all sorts of other small items.
- Teak and glass honey jar, $38 at Terrain.
- Chanto stackable containers by Takumi Shimamura, $98 a piece at Luminaire.
- Keep square jar by Sagaform, $24 at Scandinavian Design Center.
- Glass jars by Pentagon Design for iittala, $24-$60 at Unica Home.
- Sagaform Retro storage jar, $46 at Huset.
- Bamboo and stoneware canisters, $25 (usually $80) for set of 3 at Williams-Sonoma.
- Ljust red jar with lid, $7 at Ikea.
- Large Utilitarian Ceramic Jar, handmade by Ben Fiess, $100 at Gretel.
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Of course, the Williams-Sonoma ones are already unavailable. Getting my hopes up...
Recycle your jars from jellies, olives, exceteria. If you want to make them look uniformed, spray paint the lids or decorate them in the same style.
Cheaper, cost affective and you'll have a designer look to your food jars.
I do like the looks of #5 but not at that cost.
haha 38$ for a glass jar. no thanks
Clicked on this post for some inspiration but also ended up scoffing at these prices. Open shelving requires MULTIPLE matching/complimentary containers. Can you imagine buying $38 jars for your flour, sugar, coffee, cornstarch, baking soda, oats.......etc? Bahahahaha...
Not everyone lives in NYC and thinks that $30 for a jar to keep your staples is reasonable.
Maybe AT needs to find writers in the mid-west with a different sense of costs and financial reality more in tune with the rest of the US.
Here, I saved you $10 http://alderco.bigcartel.com/product/honey-jar
Anthropologie has $10 jars. They're really cute. http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/product/home-kitchen/23864820.jsp
SocialCow, I hear you, those jar prices are crazy. But speaking as a recent transplant from the Midwest to a Northeastern city, I'm a little troubled by the wording of your complaint. People who can drop exorbitant amounts of money on jars and other decor live all over, including the Midwest, and not everyone in NYC is rich. In fact, Midwesterners really don't know how good they've got it, in terms of living expenses. I miss the cheap beer, cheap food, cheap rent, and better-stocked thrift stores. Were I still living out there, I might actually have the cash set aside to treat myself to some expensive jars (I don't know that I would, but it would be a possibility). And, while there are a lot of wealthy people in NYC, there are also tons of people who are just scraping by, thanks to high cost of living. So please, don't hate NYC.
You guys realize that the majority of this site is porn, right? It's fantasy, but it can still give you good ideas. Take a look at the fabulous shit they post that we'll never be able to afford, dream, and then head over to overstock.com or your local second-hand shop and see where your inspiration takes you.
Ikea has a variety of clear glass containers that look great. I've had them on my kitchen shelves for years, filled with everything from flour, to pasta, to beans, to oatmeal.
Ya! And no hating on NYC! I certainly cant afford those jars. And I don't see how where one lives dictates what they're willing to spend on storage jars!
I do love those ones from Iittala. And showing a collection of leftover pickle jars wouldn't be quite as inspiring!
This is a design blog, and sometimes design can be expensive. Doesn't mean you have to go and buy it. But you can get inspired by them and think of a way to do it on your budget.
It's like bashing Vogue for having designer clothes on its pages...