Extending Upper Cabinets To Ceiling

You might remember awhile back i scribbled out a little sketch of what i wanted my someday kitchen to look like.

Extending upper cabinets to ceiling.

Later i realized i should have made the sides of the frame go to the ceiling so that the crown molding would have something to attach to. The cleats will be what will support the extension faceplate. If you have any questions or if i missed anything please let me know. Covering the space with plywood.

Basic steps i took to extend cabinets to ceiling. 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. Glue and nail to the side walls for upper support making sure they would be level to keep the extension face plate level with existing cabinets. Next i installed the front face frame along with the side of the upper cabinet.

Cut as many of these as you want we did 4. Extending my cabinets to the ceiling i have a lot of projects that i want to get done around my house this summer and as many of you know the first one i tackled was modifying my kitchen cabinets making them taller and extending them up to the ceiling. Remove any molding or trim along the top of the cabinets. Adding cubbies above the cabinets.

Use a nail gun to nail through the boards into the cabinets and. Cut mdf trim pieces to. This will give you something to nail your front panel piece into cut 4 8 sheet of mdf to width and use for front panel piece. With a lot of space like we have that would be too big of a header.

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. Cut your board to that length. If you have less space you can just add the header and close the whole thing up. I added some blocks and toenailed them in.

How to extend cabinets to the ceiling method 1 of 3. Install wood cleats into ceiling. Measure from the top of cabinets where the wood would sit. Place the boards vertically as you want them to go over your cabinets.

Add on to existing upper cabinets if ceilings are eight feet high we can extend the structure of your existing cabinets rather than building them completely new. Cut several cleats out of scrap wood. You can see what i mean by the arrow in the photo below oh well. Ours was 12 inches.

I wanted the cabinets to extend up to the ceiling. Remove molding or trim along the top of the cabinets.