There was about 10 above my upper cabinets that was open space.
Kitchen cabinet extenders to ceiling.
I thought it would be much more involved than it was.
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I love how it has completely transformed the kitchen.
This capability is lost when you run the cabinets fully to the ceiling.
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.
This is a popular updated post from our last home for years i ve been planning to build our cabinets up to the ceiling.
And it was totally worth the effort.
I ll admit i was a little anxious on how i would extend our kitchen cabinets so i hesitated a bit.
We are really into extending things and making them look bigger.
Builders often hung them from soffits or just left the space above them open.
In the 1980 s when our house was built cabinets were shorter than they are now.
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.
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.
Thankfully it went really quickly and was a fairly simple build.
You might remember awhile back i scribbled out a little sketch of what i wanted my someday kitchen to look like.
Here is how to extend your cabinets to the ceiling.
In many older homes the kitchen cabinets don t reach all the way to the ceiling.
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.
Much taller cabinets are in style now like the ones that joanna gaines always installed on fixer upper.
I wanted the cabinets to extend up to the ceiling.
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Aug 30 2020 explore carrol word s board extending upper kitchen cabinets on pinterest.
Blog post on process.
Extending kitchen cabinets to the ceiling is a great way to increase cabinet storage space and make your kitchen appear larger.
Extend cabinets to ceiling.
There are a few different factors to consider before deciding whether or not to extend your cabinets.