How to Decorate a Kitchen Hutch

Choose a theme for your hutch decor. If you do need to use it for storage, you might set your coffee maker on it and decorate the rest of it in a coffee theme. Or perhaps you want to display your antique kitchen tools on it.

Arrange the items on the hutch. Choose items that can be easily seen and do not overcrowd them. Using three or four items per shelf is ideal.

Space the items. If you are displaying a collection, such as tea cups, space them evenly along a shelf. If not, group the items according to how large they are. For example, display a large, pretty ceramic bowl alone in the middle of a shelf, perhaps filled with fresh or fake fruit.

Work your way down. Many kitchen hutches have graduated shelving. Place smaller items on the top shelves and larger items on the bottom. If your theme is coffee, for example, place some of your favorite coffee mugs on the top shelf, a pretty cream and sugar set and coffee canister on the middle shelf and the coffee pot and coffee grinder on the bottom shelf.

Add fun but practical accessories. Freshen up the hutch with potted herbs if your hutch is near a window. If not, add a fake plant. Fold up some pretty kitchen towels and place them in a stack on one of the shelves. Hang a retro apron on one corner of the hutch to give it some character.