Open Shelves
. . . within the Thick Walls, especially around the Farmhouse Kitchen and Workspace Enclosure, but possibly throughout the building, there is a need for shelves. This pattern helps you decide exactly where you want them and how they shall be organized. Mary Louise Rogers first made the pattern explicit for us.
Problem:
Cupboards that are too deep waste valuable space, and it always seems that what you want is behind something else.
Background & Research: Not Included on the site—Go read the book!
Solution:
Cover the walls with narrow shelves of varying depth but always shallow enough so that things can be placed on them one deep—nothing hiding behind anything else.
Usage:
At waist height put in an extra deep shelf for plates, phonograph, TV, boxes, displays, treasures—Waist-High Shelf. Mark the open shelves along with all the other deep spaces in the walls—Thickening the Outer Walls . . .
pg. 919