Kitchen Cabinets To The Ceiling Or Not
It is not uncommon to see people decorate this open area with wall decor or other items.
Kitchen cabinets to the ceiling or not. You have a choice when it comes to ceiling height cabinets. Kitchen design is hard but one thing that shouldnt be up for debate is whether or not to take your kitchen cabinets to the ceiling. We got rid of it and took cabs to ceiling.
The kitchen cabinets and trim do not go to the ceiling and there is a large open area between the top of the cabinetry and the ceiling. We are definitely on team tall cabinets8. Cost increases by 15 to take them to the ceiling.
In other words you will have something like a 36 wall cabinet with a 12 18 high smaller cabinet on top of it. I think the stacked cabinets to the ceiling will look very nice. Unless you put in a soffit cabinets that dont go to the ceiling will just become dust collectors on top.
Im not a designer but i say go to the ceiling if only for practical reasons. At first i thought it looked more closed in because it was such a change but now i think the kitchen looks more expansive. Storage really matters a lot in a kitchen and ceiling height cabinets are known to optimize the storage space.
Here are some reasons why kitchen cabinets should not go to the ceiling. If you were getting new cabinets would it be worth the extra cost to take them all the way up to the ceiling. But before deciding whether or not to extend your cabinets right up to the ceiling there are a number of challenges plus design features to note.
Standard cabinets can also allow for indirect uplighting through light fixtures mounted on the tops of the cabinets. And if your kitchen has ornate built up crown moldings they will probably need to be removed to install full rise wall cabinets and it may be impossible to reattach them to the cabinets. However there are some situations in which ceiling height cabinets are not ideal.