Decorating Above The Fridge

How many of you decorate the top of your refrigerator? I feel that it's an overlooked area to decorate since I never see anyone on Instagram showing off the top of their fridge. Well, except me!

Until this Spring, I've had the same old Crate and Barrel mixing bowls and orange metal colander up there for years (like 10 plus - yikes!) I liked those items and it never really occurred to me to change them out. That is, until I started acquiring cakestands and wanted to display them in my kitchen.

I have a soffit above my cabinets so I wasn't able to display anything up there, but above the refrigerator ended up being the perfect spot for my cakestands! There was nothing hindering the height and there was no fear of anyone knocking over my "display" (or should I use the fancy design term, vignette?) I started with just the cakestands and my Rifle Paper Co. Recipe Box and have been slowly adding to it and rearranging it over time.

Currently, I've got a sort of vintage Farmhouse vibe going on on top of my fridge. Joining my two cakestands is my copper colander that I got for super cheap on clearance at Target and three vintage blue mason jars. I recently stuck a few little faux lemon tree branches in one of my mason jars, just for the heck of it, and I liked it so much that I kept it. My green "Jadeite" cakestand is a reproduction piece that I got at World Market and the little pink one is a Martha Stewart without it's bunny dome. 

It's just another little area for me to decorate and in a few weeks, I'll probably be adding some Fall touches. But for now, I love it just the way it is!

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Side note: When I lived in my apartment, I would keep my bread on top of my refrigerator too, but it kept it getting moldy really fast. After complaining to a coworker how quickly my bread kept molding, he asked me if I kept it on top of my fridge and told me that the heat rising from the refrigerator was what was making it mold so fast. So don't store food up there! I've never had a moldy bread problem since!