Why soffits in the kitchen

This includes the inclusion of a sufficient level of ceiling height. You don't want to have your soffits exposed to lights. You can have hidden lights sandwiched between the ceiling gap.

Whether you're a nature lover or you like growing plants indoors. To this end, you can use the soffits, which is just another great idea for you. If you don't have upper cabinets, then you can use plants to hang on soffit itself. Getting plants in the kitchen will give your kitchen a beautiful natural look out of the box. This inaccessible location can be utilized to show your passion for sculptures.

Kitchen soffits are large enough to accommodate your exclusive work of art. The area can be used to put your old books. By constructing bookshelves, you can turn the gap into something useful.

Stay innovative! The gap over cabinets can be used to highlight your valuable crockery. Crockery, no matter how costly it always goes unseen in cabinets when locked.

You can make the most of this area and show many stylish accessories. If you may refurbish your kitchen entirely, you may add a window in the soffit gap that would give your kitchen a fantastic look. This relies on how this fits inside and how wide it is. However, it isn't easy to do in many situations. The soffit can be utilized to significant effect whenever it applies to an open-plan kitchen, which helps to identify the layout and work.

You can expand soffit from two walls to cover the kitchen. This also provides the possibility of recessed lighting, suspension illumination, and better airflow. A lowered ceiling gives you a feeling of enclosure inside your kitchen. The kitchen bulkhead operates in this scenario as a canopy emerging directly beyond the joinery wall. A soffit can be designed to direct air within your kitchen. It means that the air does not blow over the kitchen bench directly, and because of its more centralized position.

This should boost air quality and temperature control around the kitchen. This kitchen bulkhead is positioned as though it were hanging from the ceiling. The result is that it produces a Shadowline that matches the gray kitchen platform color scheme underneath it. Although a bulkhead can further classify the kitchen area, the partition can also be defined by using the materials. The bulkhead below is an excellent design embedded in wooden slats and recessed lighting, an excellent accompaniment to warm luxury sofas.

A kitchen bulkhead provides an additional dimension and textures for which decorative architects can get imaginative. The bulkhead below is coated with polished metal, adding decoration, texture and a new aspect to the previously slick kitchen. As well as concealing facilities, a bulkhead over a kitchen island is usually designed to imitate the size and structure of other components and geometries in the kitchen to establish visible harmony.

Soffit Removal Affects the Ceiling and Walls Removing the soffits will also impact surrounding walls and ceilings. After Soffit Removal. Before Soffit Removal. Previous Next. Connect with Us. Business Info Robinson St. West Lafayette, Indiana Request a Consultation. Since you are getting new cabinets, please think about reworking your layout for a more functional kitchen. How would you redesign my kitchen? Removing the soffits is not an option.

Should we remove the wall in the kitchen? Should we remove it??? Kitchen Soffit Removal. Do we need to rewire? There are a few devices that can be used to discover what is inside the soffit. Yes, if it is possible to remove the soffit it would be an improvement. I followed your previous threads and like most of us, you don't have some trust fund or secret swiss bank account you can tap into.

So I say work with the soffit. Perhaps others will jump in with all kinds of suggestions and beautiful and stunning pictures of double stacked cabinetry. Like this:.

Beautiful, but unless that mega millions ticket you buy pays off. You can even forgo the soffit. Yes the tops of the cabinets will get dusty. But the kitchen can still look very nice. I love the humble simplicity of this kitchen:. With strategic use of moldings and drywall, you can get an effect like this.

Oh and to figure out what's in the soffit. I had soffits. I hated them for 32 years. It was a wonderful day for me when they came down when I finally got to re-do my kitchen and get new cabinets. Think about what is above them.

We did have to move a couple of junction boxes - one was so old house built in and deteriorated so badly, that it had to be replaced - could have been a serious fire hazard. I'd estimate that the OP's soffit is around 12". Her existing cabinets are 42". It looks like she has the standard 18" of distance from countertop to cabinet bottom. So, doing the math she has 54" or so of space.

That would make the ceilings 9' or so. I think the generally available standard cabinet heights are 30", 36", and 42". In previous threads she's mentioned budget and her budgeting priorities e.

So it seems for the most budget friendly approach, it comes down to two choices, keep the soffit or have open space above the cabinets. Either could and would look terrific. Take a look inside, if there's nothing there you may as well remove them. If it's complicated, leave them and work with it. It's not about the money to remove them. It's whether she wants open top cabinets. Many folks don't want to dust their cabinet tops. Jamieh I see where you're going, but easy is a relative term.

Straightforward is a more apt term. But it's not exactly cheap. Here are some things to ponder:. Cabinet manufacturers charge astronomical per linear foot charges for frieze boards and crown - all trim essentially. It's a huge money maker for them. Depending upon crown height, a roughly 10" tall frieze board would be needed. The cost of solid wood 10" wide frieze board if it were even offered would add up quick and then there's the issue of dimensional stability with solid lumber of that width and length.

The better, more economical option would be a veneered ply or furniture board, again, assuming that's even offered at those widths or offered at all. And not cheap. And do you field paint it by brush? Hire a painter to spray it? Will the color match exactly or do you have to settle for close enough?

Will the texture and sheen be a match? So you might say why not order it from the cabinet company? Because the cost will add up quickly. And again, it may not be offered in the needed width.

One advantage to painted cabinets is you could "mimic" the look of wood in the field with drywall or cabinet grade plywood and make it look like you have built in cabinets all the way to top. Plywood could also be used. But the issue of matching color, sheen and texture to the finish remains.

That's what they did in this kitchen - which is why I posted it for the OP to see. This picture is your exact solution, which is a essentially a soffit flush with the cabinet face frame.

If the soffits come down, then you have to deal with the overall height plus the crown molding height. What is your end goal?

How long will you live in this home to recoup that added 40K investment? Or are you OK spending that to get what you want regardless of what else you can do with the money? Sounds like you you really need to be working with a good Kitchen Designer to help you sort through the cost benefit of all the changes.

Just some info: My budget refresh was not 10K. Granite alone was only removal and installation included. As far as what we are getting ready to spend, I'm sure we could easily spend 50K but we are not. We can do this for a lot less than that. Yes, it's possible. We have no plans on moving and would like to retire in this house. I am meeting with the cabinet store as soon as I have a list of what I want.

I don't want to go in blindly. We will be doing 42" cabinets like we have now. We are purchasing white cabinets so we will not be painting any cabinets. Usually, those kinds of parts rest inside the walls, on the exterior, or underneath the home. But certain elements, like pipes that carry water and vents that circulate air from the stove; have to remain inside for better access. If it is possible to remove the soffits in your kitchen, then you should be certain that you have all of the tools and equipment at your disposal to properly remove them.

Your kitchen cabinets are likely going to be touching your soffits, and all cabinets touching the soffits should be removed. You may need to go slowly with this step, giving your cabinets a thorough inspection to make sure that you understand how they are fastened to the wall.

Some cabinets are all interconnected as one long cabinet with many shelves. Cabinets are usually screwed to studs or nailed to the back of the wall, through the back of the cabinet. They are attached by studs to the underside of the soffits, and the fasteners for this are likely on top of the cabinets. Removing soffits can be a messy process. Be prepared to remove a ton of drywall. Take caution to avoid those spaces you marked as untouchable.

Most of the drywall will reveal empty space underneath it, though. You may need to apply some elbow grease to the parts of the soffit that are attached to the walls. It may not always be a cinch to remove the entire thing, but with the proper amount of tools and time, it can be done. Here are a few vintage kitchen soffit ideas to help you come up with ways to incorporate them into the natural design and elegant structure of your kitchen.

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