Kitchen Cabinets To The Ceiling Or Leave A Space
Alternately you could fill the space above a single row of standard cabinets with false cabinet panels that give the appearance but not the function or cost of cabinets running all the way to the ceiling.
Kitchen cabinets to the ceiling or leave a space. If you have a space grater than 12 a good alternative would be to give it the look of open cabinets as I did in my Laundry Room HERE. Here are some reasons why kitchen cabinets should not go to the ceiling. Or as Morgane from Bear Dolly and Moi did.
While it is true that ceiling-height cabinets will offer more storage space they can be very hard to access. Kitchen cabinets are the focal point for many kitchens and homeowners often ask if their kitchen cabinets should go to the ceiling. In a small kitchen should the wall cabinets go up to the.
Since your cabinets should always be level regardless of the ceiling conditions you will want to accurately note all of the high and low spots before deciding how you are going to install the kitchen cabinets. Here is the same kitchen with a riser molding added below the crown molding which takes the cabinets all the way to the ceiling. Tall kitchen cabinetry was the standard back then.
We are worried that even a small gap. If you look back on kitchens in old and historic homes they almost always had kitchen cabinets and built-ins that extended to the ceiling to maximize space and storagemuch like these. This is one of the reasons that most people leave some.
I avoided cabinets to the ceiling in all rooms to keep my cost down. This design shows crown molding on top of 36 tall uppers and a small space between the crown and ceiling. 6 Never run cabinets all the way to the ceiling without a two piece crown molding or a solid wood spacer.
Plus ceiling height cabinets give your kitchen a more finished higher end feel. Much cleaner look to take them to the ceiling - particularly since ceilings are 8. Ceilings are never level and there needs to be some way to disguise this.