- A wood hutch in a shade of cream or almond enables you to display your favorite dishes and store some heavier items that won't fit in your kitchen cabinets. Make a hutch the centerpiece of the kitchen by organizing each shelf with different items of a similar size, such as a row of clay mixing bowls.
- The choice of the hutch works best when it matches or contrasts with the rest of the kitchen design. For example, a contemporary kitchen with every cabinet, appliance and counter-top finished in stainless steel works well with a stainless steel hutch. Or, contrast the stainless steel kitchen with something neutral, such as a hutch made of polished black metal or brushed nickel plate. The hutch that matches the kitchen cabinets enables your display dishes and figurines to stand out.
- Choose a kitchen hutch with a built-in buffet server in almost any kind of wood. This piece usually combines display shelves on the upper section of the hutch and a table-height buffet service on the lower section of the hutch. If there are cabinets below the buffet, you can store the dishes and serving vessels in them. Your buffet-style hutch does not have to be in the dining room.
- A hutch can actually be a combination of furniture pieces. Use two or three hutch-style pieces to create a larger area for displaying dishes, either on a long wall in the kitchen or in a combined kitchen and dining room. Consider wood hutch units that extend from the floor to the ceiling. Change the color scheme of the room by selecting hutch units finished in colors that aren't traditional for wood, such as units in which shelves and backings are painted olive green and borders, including top and bottom shelves, are painted slate gray.
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