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.
Thank you Cheryl. Hi Sally, Way too little information here. What finish? What type of hood? All these things along with the type of countertop, backsplash, and flooring weigh heavily on what type of crown molding if any would look best.
If you are working with a talented professional Kitchen Designer they can explain what things you should consider when choosing a crown and help you make sure all your choices compliment each other.
As with many people who ask questions on our blog, you might want to email a design to us to help you. We take calls and answer emails free of charge for people outside our service area on Fridays Pm I decided to man the phones New Years Day even though we are closed so you could try then — or any other Friday.
We are building a vacation home with a great room that has very high pitched ceilings. I would appreciate your thoughts on this. Thank you. Hi Barbara, Kitchens are too complicated to give an answer to a question like that without seeing a floor plan, and knowing the style of cabinetry you are selecting.
Any choice you make with cabinetry reaching the ceiling will put you into an expensive cabinet line. For very traditional kitchens where a tray ceiling works a coffered ceiling could be a dramatic choice as well.
We are building a new home for our retirement and in trying to keep the cost down we are doing as much of our own research and work as possible. Thank you for making yourself so available to help others. We live in a small town with limited options for kitchen stores.
However on the positive there are a number of qualified cabinet makers. My house will be a modern farmhouse, open concept L-shaped kitchen with a 8. Then I would use 42 inch wall cabinets with 21 inch cabinets on top with 9 inch stacked molding to reach the tray.
Inside the tray I would run crowm molding and you could even do a ceiling in somethin interesting like stucco or painted embossed wall paper made to look like tin.
What cabinet height do you recommend? I think that leaves plenty of room for molding on top, and ample space between that and ceiling. Would you agree? Some high end contractors prefer to not use scribe molding and instead skim coat the walls with plaster to hide the gaps the occur when walls are not perfect. That looks best of all but requires the most work and a skilled plasterer. Personally i think with it , it looks more finished.
Hi Chrysalis — A picture is worth a thousand worlds. Show any professional a photo or call us on a Friday pm and you can email a photo that we can discuss. I just bought a new construction condo and noticed that the edge of the base cabinets are longer than the actual cabinets and it looks very odd having that piece sticking out. I have seen other new constructions and none of them looked like that. The do not intend to place another piece of wood to make it an L-shape edge, so the one piece is just there sticking out.
Is this normal? I have been trying to find anything online that looks like it, but have not had any luck.
However you may encounter two problems:. This would make your ceiling a very rare height. This makes me think you may have measured incorrectly.
So triple check everything. Mixing cabinet lines would be impossible to succeed at unless you were a very experienced designer and unfortunately no responsible kitchen designer would sell cabinetry to a customer mixing lines. If your existing cabinetry is a higher end line and has the sizes you need, AND the cabinet brand still makes your cabinet door style and finish, Get a designers help to order the skins and the stacked moldings you will need to complete the project.
Hi, love the tips in the article. I love the look when the cabinets meet the ceiling. Hi Karen, You always need to have a two piece crown molding reaching the ceiling once you get close.
The flat riser will allow you to level the crown molding and will close in the space that otherwise would look silly and collect dust, dust mites, grease and dirt for decades which is a health issue. Also our space between the countertop and the bottom of the cabinet is about inches.
Do you think we need to go with a 6 inch crown molding vs the 3 inch that we have? Also what do you think about the space between the countertop and the cabinet is it too low? Hi Mrs. T, Sorry, kitchens are far too complicated to give answers to these types of questions without measuring, seeing, and deigning the kitchen. Hi there, this article was extremely helpful. Soffit only on one side for cohesiveness is it best to just get the moulding and trim all the same size?
Or can you still use stacked cabinets with varying heights? You get added storage space as well. Hi Paul, Forgive me if this is a dumb question! I am having trouble visualizing the difference in look between: A. Same height cabinets either way. The existing soffits are even with the cabinet depth. Hi DiAnn, The answer is yes but how would be determined by the measurements of your specific kitchen.
This is what kitchen designers help with. Hi Melissa, What you really need is to be working with an experienced designer. Since cabinet dealers INCLUDE the cost of the designers time in the price of the cabinets that they sell and there are dealers like Main Line Kitchen Design that are less than Home Centers and only a fraction more than ordering cabinetry on line, it makes no sense not to be working with an experienced designer.
Unless you are in a very rural area too far from a choice of cabinet dealers. For example in the three kitchen you have done so far, you have acquired as much experience as a profession would in about a week. Since it takes many years for a kitchen designer to become even competent you definitely need help. I wish I had designed every single thing up front before demo even started — the lag time up front would have made up for itself by saving time, money, and frustration later on.
I love all my units… but my latest renovation one looks much better than the ones before! This project I learned how right you are about uppers. Now I know for next time. Hello and thank you so very much for this wonderful article and blog!
To avoid having to recalculate the upper cabinet height and cramping your countertop workspace unnecessarily, consider adjusting the size of cabinets going in. Once you determine the ideal upper cabinet height for your needs, use a measuring tape to measure this distance from either the ground or the top of the countertop, then pencil-in a horizontal line at that height on the wall.
Check with a level before moving on. Use a stud finder to find the wall studs along this line, then temporarily mount a ledger board to these studs with screws. The board—which should be installed just below the pencil line so that the bottom of the cabinet sits level at it—will support the bulk of the cabinetry weight during installation. After you lift each cabinet onto the ledger board, you can use your free hand to mount it at the stud locations with screws.
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If you would rather not bother with that, adding a riser and larger profile crown molding will eliminate the space and give the illusion of the cabinets going all the way to the ceiling. This may be your best bet aesthetically. Here is a working drawing of a kitchen with an 8-ft ceiling. This design shows crown molding on top of 36" tall uppers and a small space between the crown and ceiling. Here is the same kitchen with a riser molding added below the crown molding, which takes the cabinets all the way to the ceiling.
Some people are completely focused on having as much storage as possible in the kitchen and selecting 42" upper cabinets will definitely give you more space. It also helps make the ceiling appear larger by having the cabinets touch the ceiling. But, be warned, the extra space does come with a few caveats. There is a good chance your ceiling isn't going to be completely flush in all places, so fillers and some extra work may be needed to make the uppers look even.
With larger upper cabinets, you also lose the ability to use decorative crown molding. If you want even the slightest bit of decorative molding, you would have to drop the cabinets down a bit, which is not ideal. Crown molding is just a decorative feature, but it really does finish off the space, and may not be something you want to sacrifice.
If you are planning on a floor to ceiling pantry in your kitchen, and have decided to use 42" upper cabinets in the space, the coordinating tall cabinet is 96" high.
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