Cabinets To Ceiling
In other words you will have something like a 36 wall cabinet with a 12 18 high smaller cabinet on top of it.
Cabinets to ceiling. Standard cabinets can also allow for indirect uplighting through light fixtures mounted on the tops of the cabinets. 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 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. Ours was 12 inches.
It would have been great to do all new cabinetry but we pushed the budget here as much as possible. See more ideas about kitchen design kitchen kitchen inspirations. Yours are coming along great i like them a lot better than the shorter ones. Use a nail gun to nail through the boards into the cabinets and ceiling.
The below example has 36 tall upper cabinets and crown molding installed right up to an 8 ceiling. Cabinets and trim go all the way to the ceiling but the cabinets will probably need to be stacked. Measure from the top of your cabinet to the ceiling. In this case you have a few options.
If the ceiling height of your kitchen is nine or ten feet the cabinetry can be treated one of two ways. I prefer the cabinets to the ceiling but with my wifey being 5ft she doesnt see the need and i surely don t want to be called everytime she wants something from the top shelf. If you ve been tossing the idea around go for it. This capability is lost when you run the cabinets fully to the ceiling.
The most common ceiling height we come across is 9 tall. Now i ve seen a lot of people extend cabinets to the ceiling with real wood. Not to worry the 8 ceiling can remain as is and still look great. Cut as many of these as you want we did 4.
Cut your board to that length. Place the boards vertically as you want them to go over your cabinets.