If the ceiling height of your kitchen is nine or ten feet the cabinetry can be treated one of two ways.
Make kitchen cabinets go to ceiling.
I ve said it before and i ll say it again.
Any crown molding or trim will continue around the room above the cabinetry.
Now i ve seen a lot of people extend cabinets to the ceiling with real wood.
Thankfully it went really quickly and was a fairly simple build.
I avoided cabinets to the ceiling in all rooms to keep my cost down.
If you ve been tossing the idea around go for it.
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Our kitchen ceiling is 10 at the highest point inside the tray.
We didn t want our cabinets to go clear up to 9 so our custom cabinet maker added a soffit that matched the 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.
The perimeter of the room is 9.
We ve got lots of good stuff going in on the other side of the kitchen a new cabinet to house the refrigerator that will go to the ceiling and a new base cabinet beside it for an undercounter microwave gotta get that off the counter.
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.
Extending kitchen cabinets to the ceiling is a great way to increase cabinet storage space and make your kitchen appear larger.
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.
There are a few different factors to consider before deciding whether or not to extend your cabinets.
But one thing i did know i wanted the cabinets to extend 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.
The kitchen cabinets and molding do not go to the ceiling and the wall cabinets and trim will be just below the ceiling.
It would have been great to do all new cabinetry but we pushed the budget here as much as possible.
We are really into extending things and making them look bigger.
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.
I usually don t have a plan i just go one step at a time and make decisions as i go.
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.
This is a popular updated post from our last home for years i ve been planning to build our cabinets up to the ceiling.