Make Kitchen Cabinets Go To Ceiling

When planning a new kitchen or major remodel a key decision you ll need to make is whether to run the upper wall cabinetry all the way to the ceiling or to install cabinets with a gap above them.

Make kitchen cabinets go to ceiling.

This is a popular updated post from our last home for years i ve been planning to build our cabinets up to the ceiling. Most homes built in the last 50 years have kitchen cabinets that are 32 or 36 inches tall installed so there is a gap of 1 to 2 feet between the. I usually don t have a plan i just go one step at a time and make decisions as i go. Thankfully it went really quickly and was a fairly simple build.

We are really into extending things and making them look bigger. If you ve been tossing the idea around go for it. Extending your kitchen cabinets to the ceiling is a great way to get that high end kitchen look without breaking the bank for all new cabinets. We nailed it when we extended our fireplace to the ceiling and made the room look so much taller.

I thought it would be much more involved than it was. If the ceiling height of your kitchen is nine or ten feet the cabinetry can be treated one of two ways. But one thing i did know i wanted the cabinets to extend up to the ceiling. Now i ve seen a lot of people extend cabinets to the ceiling with real wood.

We also just extended our lower kitchen cabinets by adding open shelving and a tilt out trash can but the newest thing we did was extend our upper kitchen cabinets to the ceiling using one piece of wood. It would have been great to do all new cabinetry but we pushed the budget here as much as possible. We didn t want our cabinets to go clear up to 9 so our custom cabinet maker added a soffit that matched the cabinets. I would make a terrible interior designer.

My wife and i are planning to remodel our kitchen and want new cabinets but have never thought about extending them all the way to the ceiling. I ll admit i was a little anxious on how i would extend our kitchen cabinets so i hesitated a bit. The kitchen cabinets and molding do not go to the ceiling and the wall cabinets and trim will be just below the ceiling. Any crown molding or trim will continue around the room above the cabinetry.

The perimeter of the room is 9. Our kitchen ceiling is 10 at the highest point inside the tray. I ve said it before and i ll say it again. I really like that you mentioned utilizing the empty area between the top of the cabinets and the ceiling to expand and create more cabinet space.

Contact american wood reface today for a free in home consultation. I avoided cabinets to the ceiling in all rooms to keep my cost down.