Hanging Kitchen Cabinets Ceiling

Hang kitchen cabinet overview illustration by greg nemec.

Hanging kitchen cabinets ceiling.

Finally mark the stud locations. Leah demonstrates the importance of using the correct size screw when hanging cabinets or risk piercing your electrical wires. Start with the corner cabinet and measure up from the line you drew to the height of the cabinet. When cabinets hang from the ceiling alone such as in island cabinets special bracing insures that the cabinet is secure when held in place by only the top.

Label the location of the kitchen wall cabinets and appliances on the wall. Jan 6 2019 explore lucy kennedy s board kitchen cabinets to the ceiling on pinterest. These cabinets help homeowners get maximum storage out of a small space in a kitchen. Planning ahead lay a wood floor before hanging cabinets.

A 42 inch cabinet would touch the top of an 8 foot 96 inch ceiling or might not fit at all if you have soffits crown molding or other ceiling trim installed. Sheet flooring is more easily damaged so lay it after the cabinets are in. Any crown molding or trim will continue around the room above the cabinetry. It goes down a lot faster in an empty room says tom silva.

Wall and ceiling mount 1. The kitchen cabinets and molding do not go to the ceiling and the wall cabinets and trim will be just below the ceiling. Hanging the cabinets from a wooden ceiling beam or soffit is also critical. Next outline where the first cabinet will hang.

Using the outline you created on the wall measure the distance from the cabinet edge to the stud and transfer this to the cabinet. Protect it with thick mover s pads during installation. Draw a vertical line to line up the edge of the first cabinet to be installed. Remember to account for the face frame.

You can modify a set of wall cabinets to make them strong enough for a ceiling mount. Most homes built in the last 50 years have kitchen cabinets that are 32 or 36 inches tall installed so there is a gap of 1 to 2 feet between the tops of the cabinets and the ceiling. And there is good reason for this as wall cabinets with these proportions are fairly accessible to most people standing on the floor or using a short stepladder. If the ceiling height of your kitchen is nine or ten feet the cabinetry can be treated one of two ways.