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12 foot kitchen ceiling

4 years ago

We are building a home and are trying to design our custom cabinets. We have a 12 foot ceiling and wanted to try and avoid a gap above our cabinets. Does anyone have any interesting ideas to keep the cabinets from looking towering but still keeping with a contemporary/transitional look?

Thank you

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Holly Stockley

4 years ago

I don't think there is any way to do it but this, and it will cost the Earth for space you can't reach.

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GreenDesigns
4 years ago
Drop the ceiling to 8’6” and you wont ha e a gap. Otherwise, you just tripled your cabinet costs.
Mrs Pete
4 years ago
last modified: 4 years ago
You want 12' ceilings.

You want cabinets that aren't overwhelmingly, ridiculously, expensively tall.

You cannot have both.
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AJCN
4 years ago
Why do you want 12’ ceilings in the kitchen? Ours are 10’ and we didn’t pick them, they were here when we moved in. About 9’ would feel more comfortable, 10’ max, and then you should take the cabinets to the ceiling with trim, and avoid the dust shelf up there.
Amit Arora
Original Author
4 years ago
We need to have 12 foot ceilings because of the way the upstairs layout needed to be. Holly Stockley, I like the picture your added. How tall are those ceilings?

Thank you
Crystal Griffin
3 years ago
im sure curious as to how your kitchen turned out. I have same dilemma in our new build kitchen. I also want to run straight beams across kitchen ceiling as well
Heather Johnson
3 years ago
Crystal, I am in the same boat! 12' ceilings in kitchen and living room and I am really struggling with that extra space. We decided on 10' cabinets, but that doesn't solve the issue. Have you found any good solutions?

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