How To Add Height To Existing Kitchen Cabinets
Carefully place them on top of the cabinets. How to add height to your kitchen cabinets angie s list.
Remove existing crown moulding.
How to add height to existing kitchen cabinets. Then i cut my 2 x 2 boards into 12 inch pieces the height of my gap. Lumber trim moulding. Then with my drill i screwed one end into the ceiling into a stud and the other end into the top of the cabinet.
We remodeled our kitchen almost two years ago and i realized i never showed how we extended and customized our builder grade kitchen cabinets. You can do this by nailing in 2 4 pieces of wood into the top of the cabinet and then nailing the plywood to the 2 4. Anchor the box to the top of you re existing cabinets.
Roxanne kwiecinski blogger at the honeycomb home explains how to create custom kitchen cabinets by modifying your existing cabinet using these diy tips. How to add height to kitchen cabinets step 1. I like the look of tall kitchen cabinets that extend to the ceiling and i figured out a way to do this on a budget.
The existing cabinets had a gap between the tops of the cabinets and the ceiling. Once cut i used my kreg jig to make one screw hole in each end. Make sure that everything is lined up joints are tight and the face frame is in line with the front of the cabinet.
We went with a double stacked baseboard on the bottom and crown on the top of the baseboard. The first decision was how much height to add. After wasting an hour or so looking for my crowbar.
I used 1 2 cut down to about 4 in length and drove 1 screw into the cabinets top panel and 1 2 screws into the 1 4 molding. I started by adding some scrap wood blocks to the inside. Apply new crown and nail to the top of your boxes.
