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Bulkhead help!

6 years ago

last modified: 6 years ago

Building a custom home, just finishing the framing stage. My site manager just informed me that there will be a bulkhead in the great room and asked if we just wanted to have a single drop down along one wall of the great room or run it around the great room to create a tray ceiling. I just realized where the bulkhead is located conflicts with the location of my kitchen cabinets. Our ceilings are 10', home is going to be transitional style. There will be a coffered ceiling in the dining room and on the second floor ceiling above the stairs. Any ideas of how to hide this thing? Or whether it can be moved somewhere else less obvious? Would it be weird to have just the single bulkhead run right up to the kitchen cabinets and then run the ductwork into the cabinet to hide it? Thank you.

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Virgil Carter Fine Art
6 years ago
It's unclear where the bulkhead will be and why. Is it only above the 11'-5" opening? I assume the "why" is because of HVAC ducting as shown in the photo.

The simplest and cleanest appearing change may be to run a bulkhead the required depth from the wall to the left of your 11' opening all the way to the exterior kitchen wall. Doing so will affect the cabinets on the wall where the refrigerator is located as well as on the exterior wall.

Can you change the design of your cabinets to fit underneath the bulkhead (whatever size it will be)?
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Original Author
6 years ago
Yes, only above the 11'5" opening, due to the HVAC ducting. I could change the design but I hate the look of soffits in the kitchen with cabinets underneath and the rest of the kitchen cabinets along a different wall would be up to the ceiling so I think it would look funny to have just this run of cabinets under a bulkhead. Like I mentioned, my thought is to run the bulkhead to the cabinets and then run the duct through the cabinet side wall so it is hidden. We would lose the functionality of the topmost cabinet on the right side of those kitchen cabinets but it might be our best option. It seems silly to me to create additional bulkheads all the way around the great room to create the appearance of a tray ceiling but maybe I'm wrong.
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