What kind of range hood with high ceilings?
Hi all,
I need some advice on what to do about a range hood in a kitchen with really high, 11' ceilings. I'm planning to have a 36" gas cooktop with 36" of horizontal space above it for the hood. Or maybe 42", but with enough cfm's I think 36" will be enough, and that leaves more space for cabinets.
If the ceilings were normal height, I could just do an under-cabinet hood with the duct routed up through the cabinets to the ceiling. But since the ceilings are going to be so high I think I need to do something else.
Here's a SketchUp drawing of the kitchen design so far. The way I have it drawn the wall cabinets extend up to the 8' level, but that's pretty flexible; I just picked a number because I had to.
Here are a few options I can think of for the hood.....
Add a second layer of cabinets across that whole wall, going all the way up to the ceiling. Then I can use an under-cabinet hood and route the duct through there with no problems. But 11' of cabinets on just that one wall might be overwhelming. That's almost as tall as it is wide!
- Use an under-cabinet hood and a second layer of cabinets, but only put the stacked cabinets above where the hood is. That gets rid of the 11' wall of cherry, but I'm not sure how it would look.
- Sort of a compromise between those two: add stacked cabinets all the way across, but only 18" high or so, except in the middle they'd go all 36" up to the ceiling. Or I suppose there could even be 3 layers there in the middle.
- Use a great, big "professional" style hood whose top lines up with the top of the wall cabinets. Then add another row of wall cabinets above it to hide the duct.
- Use one of the modern, minimalist hoods that has a visible, stainless duct coming out of the top. Run that all the way up to the ceiling, with no cabinets above the cooktop at all. I kind of like this idea, but people I've talked to said they thought that having a 5' or 6' steel pipe running up the wall would be ugly.
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Do any of you have any ideas, or maybe any photos of designs you think might work here?
While I have your attention here's an unrelated question. Based on the drawing above, what would you do with the wall cabinets in the corner? Leave them along only the right-hand wall like I have in my drawing, or add a corner cabinet there and come out a couple feet onto the wall where the window is? I'm leaning toward the former, because corner cabinets are a pain and because this way there's the same amount of wall space on either side of the window. What do you think?
Thanks!
BTW, the design so far was inspired quite a bit by buehl and cloud_swift. Buehl convinced me to move the fridge over to the right-hand wall. (And then my architect convinced me to move the oven over there too, which I decided was better functionally even though it's a bit less attractive visually.) ...
Comments (16)
gregincal
11 years agoAny chimney wall hood could have the chimney run all the way up the wall. Whether you like the look of those hoods is up to you, but a visible chimney is the whole point of them. Like so:
lwerner
11 years agoI did a version of my SketchUp drawing with a chimney-style range hood. In this one you can see the high ceiling and sort of how it will tie into the living area's cathedral ceiling.
From Kitchen plans
It looks pretty nice, I think, at least as far as I can tell in a drawing like this. I may want to add another layer of cabinets too anyway, though maybe not all the way to the ceiling.
I also tried one with stacked cabinets just over the range area, and it was too ugly to post. But I want to do one with another layer of cabinets along that whole wall. I'll post that later, as an excuse to bump this thread.
Any advice on the hood or cabinets would be much appreciated!
Thanks!
Laura
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11 years agotubeman
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pricklypearcactus
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11 years agogregincal
11 years agolwerner
11 years agoHi Greg,
That's the conclusion I was coming to a well, since I need the ducting on the kitchen side of the wall. (The other side will be a bedroom, probably the guest room.)
I drew the thing four different ways in SketchUp and did 2d images of them....
Chimney hood. I think this one is my favorite because I'm going for a contemporary look:
Hood under stacked cabinets like my architect suggested. Overwhelming, but maybe OK if I were going for a more traditional look. A lighter color on the 2nd row might make it a it better, but I couldn't find an easy way to draw that. Lowering the ceiling by a foot might help too, by making the 2nd row shorter.
A chase / soffit like tubeman has. I think this one is a close second place visually. I wonder if this would be quieter since the ducting would be less exposed.
Just for the heck of it, a hood inside a wooden enclosure. This looks nicer than I thought it would, and it might be nice in a more traditional / transitional design. It's probably not quite right for me, but I need to think about it and go find some real life pictures of this sort of design.
Thanks for all the advice!
BTW, for anyone wanting to play with SketchUp, the 3d warehouse has some "SketchData" frameless cabinet components that make this sort of thing pretty easy to create. There are even some YouTube videos explaining how to use them.
Laura
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