Extending Upper Cabinets To Ceiling

Use a nail gun to nail through the boards into the cabinets and.

Extending upper cabinets to ceiling.

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. Next i installed the front face frame along with the side of the upper cabinet. If you have any questions or if i missed anything please let me know. Remove any molding or trim along the top of the cabinets.

Cut your board to that length. With a lot of space like we have that would be too big of a header. If you have less space you can just add the header and close the whole thing up. I wanted the cabinets to extend up to the ceiling.

Adding cubbies above the cabinets. Cut as many of these as you want we did 4. Covering the space with plywood. Glue and nail them in place behind the existing panel of the cabinet.

How to extend cabinets to the ceiling method 1 of 3. You might remember awhile back i scribbled out a little sketch of what i wanted my someday kitchen to look like. 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. 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.

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. 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. Place the boards vertically as you want them to go over your cabinets. You can see what i mean by the arrow in the photo below oh well.

Remove molding or trim along the top of the cabinets. Cut several cleats out of scrap wood. Basic steps i took to extend cabinets to ceiling. Install wood cleats into 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. Cut mdf trim pieces to. I added some blocks and toenailed them in. The cleats will be what will support the extension faceplate.

Ours was 12 inches. 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.