LynninNewMexico's Kitchen Hood Being Built (Pics)

13 years ago

Over on Angel's kitchen cabinet thread, Ghostlyvision commented on how her DH would love a hood in their kitchen like mine. Although mine was built during our kitchen reno by our GC, I think that it might be doable for a handy person to do themselves. I took pics of ours as it was being built.

First, a view of the Before Kitchen. And, yes, we also had the window to the right of the fridge taken out, too.

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End of Day #1/The Gutting:

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The hood being framed in. You can see the vent, new ductwork etc. in this pic. Those were put in first and then the framing for the hood built around it. The "legs" were temporary, until everything could be attached securely to the adobe brick walls. The wiring had to be put into channels chiseled into the adobe bricks, which isn't difficult, as they're fairly soft. The vent pipe itself, curves and goes out through the back wall. It could also have gone up through the roof.

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Next they added more fiberboard (I think that's what it is)to enclose the sides. They carved away the sharp corners a bit with a saw. And then a plasterer hand-trowled on coats of some kind of plaster that went on brown and cured over a day to the beautiful white coat that's on there now. It wasn't painted, but it could be. Regular plaster and then paint may work just as well. The curved edges were created by the plaster coats. I designed this hood completely by myself and wanted the ledge to prop paintings up on.

It started off as brown:

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And cured to a warm creamy white:

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It's now the centerpiece of our kitchen and I'm really proud of well it turned out. The view from our family room into our kitchen used to be of a refrigerator; it's much nicer now!

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Ghostlyvision, I hope that perhaps your DH can use these pics to someday build one for you, too.

Lynn

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ghostlyvision
13 years ago
Lynn,

Thank you so much for posting this! The GC that built the archway between our kitchen and livingroom is very handy, all he needs is a picture to fabricate anything you'd please, I'm sure he could make us a hood like yours thanks to your wonderful detailed pictures and explanation. Hubby isn't quite so handy, and I'm afraid of power saws. lol

Thanks again, I just love that hood, and since we've been doing the house with a southwestern flavor, it would blend in perfectly. :D
moonshadow
13 years ago
Very nice Lynn, and your custom design, down to curves & ledge, fit right in with the style of your home. Always enjoy seeing your pics, it looks like such a soothing place to live. :)
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maire_cate
13 years ago
That's just beautiful! I love the fireback behind the cooktop. It looks great.
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13 years ago
Lynn, that looks amazing. I love your style anyways but you really out did yourself this time! It's Beautiful!
lynninnewmexico
Original Author
13 years ago
Thanks for the comps on my kitchen and the hood over my cooktop. I'm glad the pictures and info might help your GC build one similar for you someday!
Lynn
sweeby
13 years ago
That's fabulous Lynn -- Thanks so much for posting the how-to.

One other question if you don't mind: I see you have a fireback as your backsplash -- something that I've always been very tempted by. How did you attach it to the wall? And did you coat the surface with anything to prevent rust? Also, how's it wearing? Cleanable?

Guess that was more than one ;-)
lynninnewmexico
Original Author
13 years ago
Hey Sweeby ;^D Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner, but I've been off the Net and out working in my gardens this weekend.
My fireback: it's a real one and weighs something like 34 lbs. I was initially worried about how hard it would be to use it as part of the backsplash behind my cooktop but both our GC and our tile guy said it would be no problem for them . . . and it wasn't. It was put in during our big kitchen reno several years ago.
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Our painter for the reno initially sprayed just the front of it with 2 coats of a satin-finish sealant. I don't recall the brand name, but it was probably a Rustoleum product. We've had absolutely no problems with rusting, cleaning it or anything since then . . . and I cook a lot. I use a very soft mushroom cleaning brush and just some dish soap and water to occasionally clean it.

As far as putting it in, it was put in before the surrounding tile was started. They used what they told me was just a commonly used strong construction glue to hold it on the wall. It came in what looked just like a big caulking gun. The wall itself is real adobe brick. They glued the fireback in place and gently tapped several large nails directly under and on the sides of it to hold it in place while the glue hardened/cured. They then pulled the nails out and our tile guy laid the Crema Marfil tumbled marble tiles around it, starting at the fireback and working out from there.
That's all it took and we haven't had a bit of trouble with it ever. I love that's it's not the same old just- tile type of backsplash and it goes well in our kind of Old World kitchen. I'd initially planned to have a custom painted Spanish/Mexican scene done for that area, but then decided that I didn't want to necessarily be locked into a Spanish type of kitchen forever and went with the fireback instead.
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