Extending Upper Cabinets To Ceiling

How to extend cabinets to the ceiling method 1 of 3.

Extending upper cabinets to ceiling.

Cut as many of these as you want we did 4. 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. Place the boards vertically as you want them to go over your cabinets. 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.

I added some blocks and toenailed them in. Remove molding or trim along the top of the cabinets. If you have less space you can just add the header and close the whole thing up. 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.

If you have any questions or if i missed anything please let me know. Glue and nail them in place behind the existing panel of the cabinet. Use a nail gun to nail through the boards into the cabinets and. If you have a large space above your cabinets like us i recommend making them additional upper or open cabinets.

Covering the space with plywood. 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. You might remember awhile back i scribbled out a little sketch of what i wanted my someday kitchen to look like. The cleats will be what will support the extension faceplate.

Remove any molding or trim along the top of the cabinets. Cut several cleats out of scrap wood. Cut mdf trim pieces to. Cut your board to that length.

Install wood cleats into ceiling. Adding cubbies above the cabinets. Next i installed the front face frame along with the side of the upper cabinet. 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.

Basic steps i took to extend cabinets to ceiling. You can see what i mean by the arrow in the photo below oh well. I wanted the cabinets to extend up to the ceiling. Measure from the top of cabinets where the wood would sit.

Ours was 12 inches. 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.