Woohoo!! Paint the ceiling. both involve a standard litter box placed inside a bigger cardboard box with a wide opening cut down the side for the cat to go in and out and for us to scoop in. 1) Given the beam, you must have soffit on the main sink wall. I really love the kitchen millwork idea, too, when cabinets canât be raised to the ceiling. Get rid of it altogether as seen from an Apartment Therapy reader. These soffits are usually hard to miss and can give the entire kitchen a dated look. Sometimes they are even there to just fill the space above your cabinets. Another idea is to paint the soffit and the ceiling the same color, using crown molding and trim to complement the white cabinetry. Thicken the soffit as a border around the kitchen. company kd. Lower the entire kitchen ceiling to soffit height. They made for a squatty looking upper cabinet, especially since homeowners typically paint their walls in their kitchen a ⦠and the wall (transom?) You can also check Daina Baer's work closing the space above the cabinets in her kitchen. Hide the HVAC! A kitchen renovation is not in the budget right now but I'm sure there are ways I can hide the soffits. In this particular kitchen remodel, there is a large soffit that needs to be downsized. Go monotone with the walls, cabinets, and soffits. #hidetheHVAC. Cabinet soffits are, at best, dark spaces that need aesthetic attention. above the doorway into the dining room. But if you're dealing with a soffit or fur down, you have to check Kaylor @ Fisherman's Wife Furniture, she made the soffit look like part of the cabinets. At worst, open cabinet soffits eat up valuable storage space. The overhang of kitchen soffits can make modern kitchens feel claustrophobic or outdated, but when considering a kitchen remodel, removing them might put you over budget. One inescapable feature of kitchen wall cabinets: the long, open soffits that run across the tops of the cabinets. 10 Ways to Disguise a Kitchen Soffit Add moulding. Thank you for such a clear explanation of this terminology & for the excellent examples of how to make the bulkheads and soffits blend in, when necessary. Cha ching. Brilliant! Either way, I personally find most soffits can make a home feel dated and ex⦠Opt for built-in shelf niches. In so many of the houses built 20 years ago or more, the 1â sheetrock furr downs or soffits over kitchen cabinets were standard issue. They are often created to hide wires, pipes or other mechanicals in our kitchen. Soffits are usually designed to hide piping or wiring, so removing the protrusion can also require electric and plumbing work (in addition to refinishing and molding around the wall). (Read about the demo here and here) Notice the two stage soffit above the pantry cabinets (YUCK!) we have two litter boxes, one in the basement and one on the third floor landing. To review, because it takes me forever between posts, this is what the kitchen pantry wall looked like before the renovation. Oct 6, 2017 - A kitchen soffit (aka bulkhead) is something that majority of us have in our kitchens. I've seen some DIYs where people attached crown molding etc but the concern is the soffit over the island area. Make the soffit look like a beam. The soffits problem begins with ⦠2) Ceiling height of 102" (8'6") means even a 42" tall cabinet placed at standard 54" would take the top of kitchen up to 96", leaving the 6" gap that probably prompted this discussion. Both gray and white molding disguise the soffits in this kitchen, I love the use of both the cabinetry and trim colors in the design. Essentially there are two design obstacles. What a â¦