Cabinets hangs out from soffit
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rantontoo
7 years agom_gabriel
7 years agoWe have that situation on one wall. Before you look at the pics, realize it's still kind of in progress and lots of people here will probably hate my choice. We have 15" IKEA cabinets and we put in an external range vent that goes out the wall to the left. We expressly did not want to go to the ceiling with the cabinets on this wall and wanted the soffit built back, meant to be unobtrusive like a little step. Original plan was to paint wall color. Blah, blah, blah, turned out soffit had to be larger. In the framing of it, the plywood was reminiscent of a rustic beam so we held off on painting to ponder. LOL, it will probably be "in progress" forever. Anyway, you can see if the pics give you an idea of what to expect.
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Comments (14)Beck, I think the fridge wall looks fine and you can hide the soffit or not as you please, no matter what you do on the other wall. In fact, I think the whole thing will look fine. I like your small cabinets up on the range wall. If you can really make them line up with the bottom of the soffit, it seems to me that the best thing to do is to do false doors on the soffit, especially if you can take it out over the sink. If the cabinets have visible frames, put them on too, so that it really looks like the same top level cabinets. You could also just paint the soffits to match the cabinets. I wouldn't do the angle/window wall soffit in wall color, because that will emphasize the step down. Either way, you could do something different on the fridge wall pretty easily. I'm a fan of clean lines, so I don't want to gunk it up, but another thing you could do is an angled lattice that matches the beading on the stiles and rails, on the soffits. Or hang a light sculpture. Or clad them with stainless to match the appliances. I mean, there are all kinds of things you could do, but the best way to carry your design all the way around, I think, is to run the cupboards up. I have a weird soffit with pipes in my current laundry and pantry. It's just going to get enclosed in the new cupboards and go away. :)...See MoreHood, cabinet, soffit issue....can't figure this out
Comments (13)I like your Houzz inspiration. I think it looks good because they've used a wide crown molding to minimize the blank space of the soffit. Would that work on the sink wall soffit too? Then I'd use a chimney hood with a wide chimney. Some are just too long and skinny, and that's going to be accentuated by your tall and narrow cabinets--three in a row! I'd also bring the window treatment up to the crown as shown in the photo, though I bet your soffit interferes with that. Or I'd add the large top molding on the window as shown in the photo with the red range. You want to create the illusion of taller windows. I think all that brings a cohesive look to the soffits, windows, cabinets, and hood. I wonder if someone with great spatial abilities could find a way to make both walls look like they were designed as a whole. The Home Decor forum might be helpful with that, but maybe moreso the Remodeling and Building a Home forums, which have some really talented posters. Post everywhere! You've been struggling with this a long time!...See MorePlease review my cabinet design options and soffit or no soffit?
Comments (7)I prefer simpler, cleaner lines, so mostly like the 2nd styles in each drawing. I especially like the area next to the pantry to have more counter and not have the long doors down to the counter. Also, in the first picture, that area next to the oven and pantry looks like it's trying to be a furniture piece, but everything on that wall looks like separate things all shoved together. I'm not sure how to explain that better, and less offensively! I just think there is a lot going on and, like I said, all lined up, shoulder-to-shoulder, doesn't work for me. How do you do soffits with the cabinets changing height at the top? Or would you do away with that? If you drop the ceiling in the butler's pantry, might you want to do cabinets to 9 ft and have the ceiling where the cabinets end? Or do you want to store serveware or have lighting above?...See MoreHow to decorate kitchen soffits above cabinets
Comments (9)Don't paint a vine with flowers on them. That will suck value from any resale you want to do. DH just had to pay to get his ex wife's taste in murals removed so the house would sell. Do you have a photo of your soffits? We have something similar. We put crown molding up there and it looks very elegant....See MoreTamar Paz
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7 years agobeenzmail
7 years agoIf it is uniform it might look ok, (I don't think I would do it) but for some reason, with all of the people that worked on my kitchen, no one realized that the fridge cabinet would stick out about an inch from the soffit until it was installed. It looked terrible. We had the soffit extended about 3" on that wall to make it work. We have 9' ceilings and 24" soffits. We really didn't see any reason to take them out as they have electrical and duct work in there. Ours add visual interest that we liked as well, and we didn't need more storage. Can you post pictures? This probably doesn't help you, but this is after we added it. Will your fridge stick out even farther? We had to make that one 27" to work.
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