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Growing up, we had chores; one of those chores was dusting. Whoever’s turn it was that week would have to go through the whole house with a rag and a can of Pledge and move every individual tchotchke out of the way to clean what felt like miles and miles of shelving. It took forever (probably less than an hour) and instilled in me both a hatred of dusting, and also the intrinsic knowledge that my house is not clean unless it’s dusted.

In my old Brooklyn apartment — where we often kept the windows open, and were about two blocks from the BQE, a very busy highway — there would be a visible layer of dust on my TV stand after about two weeks. In my new house, where the windows are so old they’ve been painted shut, on a street with little traffic, things don’t seem to get so dusty.

Why am I telling you this? Because dust is a deterring factor that keeps me — and a lot of you — from getting open shelving in the kitchen.

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