Building cabinets up to the ceiling from Thrifty Decor Chick

Wow!! I am so thrilled to get this section of the renovation carried out! I am going to admit I was a tiny anxious on how I would increase our kitchen cabinets so I hesitated a bit. I thought it would be a great deal more involved than it was. Luckily it went truly rapidly and was a rather very simple build. (This is a common up to date post from our very last dwelling!)

For Years I’ve been arranging to build our cupboards up to the ceiling. We picked them out additional than 11 years in the past and went with the shorter versions relatively than taller. I knew that tallest shelf would be also higher to attain and I was seeking not to shell out any far more funds developing this house. 🙂

We did have crown and if you have standard cabinets I believe it can make a Large big difference. You can see below in which I had taken it down to establish in the fridge — it was even now up on the still left:

Just incorporating some crown is a tremendous effective way to make your cabinets seem extra high end. 

I however would have performed this venture even with the taller cupboards. I adore the look of constructed ins and setting up them up to the ceiling just feels extra tailor made to me. 

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I did not even use glue (I’ve acquired changes may possibly require to be designed afterwards). Individuals who establish for a dwelling are most likely cringing. 🙂 But these will never be touched much at all and the bins are strong! My position is, you never need to have a ton of tools or a workshop (your kitchen area floor is good) to do matters like this. All you have to have is some wood, a drill and a dream. ) 

The challenging aspect of each individual challenge like this is figuring out the sizing of the boards to make the packing containers. I shell out most of my time perfecting that. I stand with a tape evaluate and notebook and attract photos of what I want to do and close up scratching most of it out right before I get to the ultimate. It is really how I perform it all out in my head. About an hour afterwards I’m prepared to have wooden cut. 

I have all my pieces slice down at Lowe’s — I did not do them all at when this time for the reason that I was examining sizing as I went. That is These a excellent service and I don’t mind at all that they’ve begun charging for additional than a few cuts. It can be well really worth it to me! 

I constructed a single box at a time and placed them up on top rated of the cupboards: 

Your cabinets are built to hold really a little bit of pounds so do not worry about that — I later on screwed them into the studs higher than (and to each and every other) so that took most of the excess weight off. 

I built true containers — if you are genuinely fantastic you could develop the overall piece and then set it up there. You could make just one major box with a single piece of wood separating just about every segment, but I realized I wanted to mimic the appear of the bottom cabinets with trim so I wanted the sides of these to be thicker. I hope that helps make sense!

I was previously in really like!! My spouse and child had been just humoring me at this stage, nodding and declaring, yeah it appears to be like greaaaat. Rely on!

We had about two ft of room over our cabinets and I created these 16 inches tall. I was adding a header earlier mentioned and did not want it to be far too thick. I also didn’t want the cabinets to be too tall either, I thought that would look at very little off due to the fact our uppers are a standard size. 

Future I had to prep for the header piece. I screwed some scrap wooden into the beams in the ceiling for the header to attach to at the best. I did not get a good pic of this but you can see a piece of that sticking out driving the header to the right in this pic: 

As you can see, immediately after that was safe in the ceiling I was capable to attach my header to that and the cupboards. I utilised a 1×10 piece of wood for this part. 

Also, I didn’t take out the crown to place these up — I realized I could cope new items in so that saved me a ton of time. I just notched out a corner in the header so it would in shape over the existing crown. 

Following ended up the ending touches — this is my beloved section mainly because things begin to arrive together! I additional some trim together the base: 

And then I added the vertical trim to mimic the appear down below: 

I was receiving genuinely energized at this stage! 

I made the header thick for the reason that I have crown and trim that I wanted to keep on all over this portion. That normally takes up about five inches of it. Also, I will be including lighting within the cupboards and that will run alongside the again of the header. This offers me loads of home to incorporate that and have it concealed. 

Here’s a shot I shared on Instagram due to the fact I was so excited:

I was working on a deadline in this article — I am a procrastinator through and by means of. I’ve experienced months to get this done but I work most effective when I HAVE to get it completed. The counters are coming this week and I needed to get all the things up significant carried out that I could. 

I concluded up the fridge cupboard and begun incorporating additional trim to disguise the tough stuff: 

This is a shot of how that’s coming collectively: 

You can see listed here we had to have the recessed light-weight moved out a few inches — it was appropriate in the way of in which the crown was heading. Renovations are a continual dance of two steps forward and a single phase again. 🙂

It’s challenging to see there but if you seem near you can see how I included the little trim together the leading that goes close to the relaxation of our good home. It really is an simple way to make your crown search extra chunky.

This is a further shot in advance of the crown was began:

Justification the mess! We experienced some drywall fixes to acquire treatment of as effectively. I clearly really should just end hoping to thoroughly clean. A few of you have questioned about the cabinet on the remaining facet — I will not be relocating it for the reason that the the way the doors open up would be awkward. 🙂

And this is how it’s on the lookout with the crown (that I had assistance with, I am not wonderful at coping but):

I certainly Love it. I am so thrilled!!
When every thing is painted it will glance exactly like it did in my head all these several years. Paint will arrive final even though, so for now I’ll just take pleasure in. 🙂 As of appropriate now I am not preparing to incorporate doorways but that may modify. If I do they will have glass fronts. I might add a person much more piece of compact trim wherever the outdated and new cupboards fulfill up — I am likely to wait around on that far too.

I utilized some added wooden leftover from the fridge enclosure so that served a ton with costs. I ended up paying possibly yet another $100 and that includes trim. I would have paid hundreds in labor if we experienced employed it out.

If you have a big space over your cabinets like us, I propose earning them further upper or open up cabinets. If you have a lot less space you can just insert the header and near the complete thing up. With a good deal of place like we have that would be too large of a header.

If you have any questions or if I missed something remember to permit me know! Have you attempted this task in your residence? I know many of you have been wondering about it!

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