Kitchen Cabinets To Ceiling
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Kitchen cabinets to ceiling. This will give you something to nail your front panel piece into. Extending kitchen cabinets to the ceiling is a great way to increase cabinet storage space and make your kitchen appear larger. Kitchen cabinets that go to the ceiling have pros and cons likewise cabinets that do not go to the ceiling have advantages and disadvantages. Feb 17 2020 explore lawcedrea walker s board kitchen cabinets floor to ceiling on pinterest.
There are a few different factors to consider before deciding whether or not to extend your cabinets. So there you have cabinets to the ceiling 101. The most important thing is to understand the ideal conditions for any cabinet height before you make a choice. If you want to fix this but don t want to go through the hassle and expense of replacing the cabinets entirely then there are some simple ways to extend the cabinets and cover up that space.
We are really into extending things and making them look bigger. In many older homes the kitchen cabinets don t reach all the way to the ceiling. And there is good reason for this as wall cabinets with these proportions are fairly accessible to most people standing on the floor or using a short stepladder. We nailed it when we extended our fireplace to the ceiling and made the room look so much taller.
Measure from the top of cabinets where the wood would sit to the ceiling. 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. Now i ve seen a lot of people extend cabinets to the ceiling with real wood. If your home has a vaulted ceiling or if it s just too tall we wouldn t recommend even attempting running cabinets to the ceiling.
Plus ceiling height cabinets give your kitchen a more finished higher end feel. If you ve been tossing the idea around go for it. 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. Cut 4 8 sheet of mdf to width and use for front panel piece.
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 tops of the cabinets and the ceiling. I took off about an 1 8 to 1 4 to give me some wiggle. Contact american wood reface today for a free in home consultation. Kitchen cabinets that go to the ceiling can increase your storage space or add an area to display decorative items.
You probably don t want to be the guinea pig and blaze new trails in cabinet trends by triple or quadruple stacking cabinets.