Soffits are grouped in with those ceiling details that may be playing a role in why your cabinets were never extended to the ceiling in the first place. But whatever their original purpose was, they are often unsightly and prevent your cabinets from being extended. An experienced contractor is the best resource to take a closer look at your soffits and determine why they were built in the first place.
You can then determine if they can be removed or if they are necessary elements that need to stay because of important ductwork, wiring, or plumbing. Although American Wood Reface does not tear out soffits for you, we are able to come in after the job is done and get started on extending your cabinets, or building new ones depending on what will work best for your kitchen.
One might assume that the problem of short upper cabinets would require all new cabinetry to be installed, but that is not the case. With cabinet refacing, we can solve the problem in one of two ways: either by extending existing cabinets or building additional cabinets onto them, as outlined below. Both methods provide all the benefits of refacing vs. If ceilings are eight feet high, we can extend the structure of your existing cabinets rather than building them completely new.
Once the structure is extended, we reface the cabinets in order to hide any seams and structural changes so they are essentially brand new, taller cabinets with new doors. This give the eye a place to rest. And if you can get undercab lighting. This always makes a space feel lighter. With all that info, I stand by my no stagger suggestion. Staggering does not read contemporary to me. I don't think it'll be claustrophobic.
Or I should say that staggering them won't make it feel open. Thanks boxer. That was original thought, but the finality of the decision is what is weighing in heavily at the moment.
I'll likely just keep the original plan, and tell myself I live it even if I do think otherwise. Hi OCJeff, I'm not a staggerer myself. But, I've seen some beautiful kitchens on GW that swagger while they stagger. I'll try to find some examples to post. Most recently I saw that lajan's kitchen had staggered cabinets.
Here is a link that might be useful: GW post with la jan's staggered cabinets. If you stagger the height like in drawing 2 but not the depth, there will be nowhere for the crown molding on the lower cabinets to end.
They need a cabinet to bump into. From Woodweb. I've decided to stick with the original plan, and I'll be sure to post pics as it comes to fruition. I can always rip them out and do them again if needed. After seeing that, I stick with my contention that you can't stagger the height without also staggering the depth. I staggered the cabinets above my OTR microwave and above my fridge in my last home and loved the look. We received many many compliments as the standard builder homes around our did not have this feature.
We also had 8" ceilings. Glad you made a decision! Decisions are hard to come by at my house so i celebrate when someone else makes one. Sad, isnt it? I agree with the no-stagger suggestions. However I wanted to toss out another possibility for incorporating the molding if you do stagger. I'm actually doing this in my kitchen, but it hasn't happened yet so I can't attest to whether it will work.
But in one spot the designer placed 1" spacer for the molding to die into; my molding will be very small though. Honestly, I don't see what the big deal is and in general, I'd rather have cabinet space than dead filler, but I was assured this would matter and I don't think the sacrificed cabinet space would have been all that useful as it happens. So I thought I'd mention that possible solution.
That said, again, given your drawings the staggered setup looks forced to me. Just busy and kinda: "why"? When contractors know what the complete project entails costs are lowered and the job runs smoothly. The people that finish first are never the ones that started first they are the ones that planned to completion first and then started.
When you hear a story about a kitchen that took 6 months or a year this was the fault of the unprofessional people organizing the job. Doing a simplistic design or finish in a very popular door style like a shaker style in an expensive cabinet line is often just throwing money away.
In fact the higher level tops while beautiful may require more maintenance or be hard too seam. Any design work or material selections made prior to a professional kitchen designer measuring is inefficient and can lead to frustrations when surprises and problems are revealed to you by someone with more knowledge and experience.
They will show you designs that make sense for your space and that you should at least consider. You can make changes from there to arrive at the kitchen that you want after considering what a profesional would do with your space.
Saving money on material selections will make almost any design affordable. It is the design itself that gives value to your home. Upgrading to professional appliances or custom styles and colors can be beautiful but the added expense is wasted if the design itself is poor. Call in to our recorded Podcast pm Fridays Eastern Standard Time to ask cabinetry and design questions.
Have designs ready to email for layout advice. Call I loved it when you said never leave crown moldings closer than 9 inches from a ceiling. We are renovating our kitchen, and I want it to look elegant this time. We are looking for the best kitchen cabinets to add to the beauty of the kitchen. One of the owners of our website development company lives in Bozeman and I designed his kitchen and shipped his cabinetry to Bozeman.
I had a great time skiing at higher altitudes while I visited to measure and check on the renovation. You have a great website and a wonderful city. All the best! We recently started our own carpentry business and came across this article. Thanks for the good read. Hi Sunny, A waterfall countertop has a seam. Some kind of mosaic also might make the room interesting.
These are really great tips! I saw a beautiful photo from Ceaserstone featured an island with a quartz countertop with a waterfall type of thing going on the sides. Is the corner of the countertop and the side waterfall not considered a seam? Also, what height of cabinetry do you recommend for an 8 ft ceiling? Thanks in advance! Hi Ruth, Kitchens are way to complicated to answer questions like these. If you sent us a floorplan and called in to our podcast on a Friday we could help.
Call between pm on a Friday. Range and refrigerator on opposite wall with cabinet on either side of range. Does deeper cabinet over refrigerator work in back corner of kitchen? Hi Greg, Thanks for following our blog We respond to questions from outside our service area free of charge either on our blog via comments on the blog or by phone during our call-in podcast most Fridays between 2 and 4 pm Eastern Standard Time.
Just call in to and leave a message during those hours and we will call you back when your turn comes up. All calls are returned even after 4pm. We review plans free of charge on the podcast simply have them ready to email before you call.
Hi Paul, I so wish we could find a company like yours in our area. One of them maintained our exact, tract house layout, despite our request for improvement. We found ourselves at Lowes and just finished a design. I found your site last night though and have many areas of concern. I would love to share the design with you for your opinion and suggestions! A huge concern after reading this article is about cabinet height.
Hi Joanne, The question is too simplistic to answer. Hi Joanne, We have designed spaces and sold cabinetry around the US but doing it is harder to coordinate and the customer must pay as they go in advance for design time.
A overlapping second smaller flat riser would keep the contemporary look and look even better IMO. Be careful with hickory cabinets, they are going to be full of stripes with all the wood color differences in hickory. Particularly with solid center panels the cabinets will look very busy. When homeowners make unusual selections or choose unusual woods I also worry that they are getting poor layout advice. Can you help us with solving a wall cabinet height issue? My husband greatly dislikes the open top above the uppers, but I think tall cabinets in a small kitchen look disproportional.
Also, we both prefer simple straight lines and will be doing a shaker hickory cabinet. Or is it truly necessary for us to embrace crown molding? Hi Susie, Way too little information to give advice here. Sometimes with very high ceilings we create a tray or coffered celling.
Depends on the room and on the style the customer is going for. You could call into the podcast on a Friday pm EST with photos of the room ready to email. Hi, thank you for all your great info here.
We have Please please what size wall cabinets would you do? We like the stacked look, there is no soffit. Going to ceiling…seems like it may be towering? Thanks for any help!! But we need to see the plans to really have an opinion. Hi, I have a question about my cabinets being built on each side of the kitchen window.
Is that to big of a difference in size for each side? This is purely preference. Although for inset cabinetry the cabinets should be combined so there would be no seam. I like no separator personally, because when you shin the cabinets on the side they look like one cabinet.
When you skin the sides it gives the look of custom cabinetry. We have contacted a few cabinet companies in our area for a complete kitchen remodel.
We have 10 ft ceilings and want simple shaker cabinets, stacked to the ceiling. One company suggests using a separator trim between the wall cabinets and the top, glass front stacked cabinets. The other company strongly disagrees. Thank you! No ones ceiling is usually level enough to not use moldings.
Ceilings and floors are never level and since cabinetry must be installed level you need some way to account for this. Hello, I love your site and appreciate your willingness to help. What do you think? We wanted our kitchen to be upgraded with everything. It gives us some ideas about what to do. Hi Cheryl, If you have casement windows you need to be able to turn the crank to open the window. So the window must be up off the countertop enough to turn the crank with your fingers around it.
The Sellersville Kitchen had cranks that angled up more than usual, making keeping the existing casement windows possible. Also casement windows open out, so patios and decks are compromised by the window. Casement windows also cost 2 or 3 times more than double hung windows.
So if you are ordering new window keep all these issues in mind. Personally if there is a patio or a deck outside the window I would not use casement windows and might use a picture window with two double hungs on either side if the window openings were wide enough. Hi Paul et al, First thank you for all your wonderful ideas!
I would love to have the window above my sink come down to the countertop. I have casement windows throughout my house. I noticed in your Sellsville kitchen mentioned above there is a casement window to the countertop. My designer said that if I did this it would be hard to open the window. Any pointers or anything I should know about putting a casement window to the countertop. I've been in your shoes. DH and I nearly walked away from our home during the negotiation process because the builder kept raising the price.
Instead we backed out several features, including wood floors in the kitchen, tile counters in kitchen, bathrooms and laundry room which actually turned out to be an excellent choice and a few other things. We were so focused on the total cost that we forgot how little a few of these things added to our monthly payments.
If we had to do it over again, we would have stuck with wood floors in the kitchen. And mortgage rates then were higher than they are now.
It's a balancing act. I wish you well navigating through. One of the places I'm glad we saved on was on the front yard landscaping, which was included in the price quote.
It's grunt work but doable and more DIY friendly and forgiving of mistakes than doing one's own trim work. Grass seed is cheapest but sod isn't that expensive. We also installed our sprinkler system. There are lots of DIY sites to help with this now, definitely more so than when DH and I built our home over 21 yrs ago. Indem Sie weiterhin auf der Website surfen bzw.
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This is a custom color, and the names of custom colors can vary among prefinishers and paint providers. We would recommend that you contact a paint provider to match this color. If you'd like to speak with the LP sales rep. Thank you so much! Any way you can post a pic? My advice would be to keep things simple, it could make things more complicated down the road with any future changes, if you add another pattern.
Patterns can work well together, but it does depend on what exactly the patterns are The edge where the shakes meet the other trims etc would that be a clean line or would it be also staggered? Just wonderering as it might look crooked if it was staggered there , otherwise staggered through the rest would suit as you are doing the craftsman beam trim and all which would definitely go with that. Lisa G Original Author. Like Save. Lisa G, Do the hood if at all possible. And yes second to rethinking the corner pantry cabinet if that's on your plan.
Good luck! Have fun with your build! Buehl 5 years ago. They're less than ideal MWs and even worse range hoods. A nice basic hood - either standalone or under a cabinet - will be so much more functional! IF they don't allow you to put in a standalone hood, I recommend telling them to give you a credit on the OTR MW and to leave the space where the MW was going to be empty - but with all the ducting in place - so you can install a hood of your own after you move in.
With the exception of the one stack I see in the top picture, I don't see any other drawer stacks in the pictures you posted - they all look to be basic base cabinets with a drawer on top and shelves below.
They are better functionally and you would be surprised what you can store in them unless you've been reading - if you have, then you probably already know the advantages -- Better - Roll Out Tray Shelves ROTS some people call them pullout shelves.
You can probably at least upgrade to ROTS. While they're not ideal, they're better than basic builder-grade cabinets see next comment -- Worst - Stationary shelves in a base cabinet. These are probably the worst type functionally - even if they're adjustable. This is one area where upgrading is definitely worth the price! Island overhang. Generally, this means an island at least Those overhangs are probably 9" to 12" deep - adding another 6" or 3" shouldn't detract from the table space much - but it will make a big difference for someone sitting at the island - much more comfortable!
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