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Kitchen cabinet extenders to ceiling.
Extending kitchen cabinets to the ceiling is a great way to increase cabinet storage space and make your kitchen appear larger.
If you take only one thing away from the entirety of my story blog let it be that someday isn t ev ver going to happen unless you make someday today.
I love how it has completely transformed the kitchen.
In the 1980 s when our house was built cabinets were shorter than they are now.
And it was totally worth the effort.
Builders often hung them from soffits or just left the space above them open.
Here is how to extend your cabinets to the ceiling.
I thought it would be much more involved than it was.
There are a few different factors to consider before deciding whether or not to extend your cabinets.
Blog post on process.
A coffered ceiling for example depends on a symmetrical look that is badly disrupted as soon as you extend wall cabinets fully to the ceiling.
Thankfully it went really quickly and was a fairly simple build.
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.
This capability is lost when you run the cabinets fully to the ceiling.
In many older homes the kitchen cabinets don t reach all the way to the ceiling.
Much taller cabinets are in style now like the ones that joanna gaines always installed on fixer upper.
This is a popular updated post from our last home for years i ve been planning to build our cabinets up to the ceiling.
We nailed it when we extended our fireplace to the ceiling and made the room look so much taller.
You might remember awhile back i scribbled out a little sketch of what i wanted my someday kitchen to look like.
I ll admit i was a little anxious on how i would extend our kitchen cabinets so i hesitated a bit.
Extend cabinets to ceiling.
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.
In a separate post i will be sharing the painting portion of the cabinets but today i want to share my first step in this process.
I wanted the cabinets to extend up to the ceiling.
There was about 10 above my upper cabinets that was open space.
Standard cabinets can also allow for indirect uplighting through light fixtures mounted on the tops of the cabinets.