Kitchen soffit makeover

A kitchen soffit (aka bulkhead) is something that majority of us have in our kitchens. They are often created to hide wires, pipes or other mechanicals in our kitchen. Sometimes they are even there to just fill the space above your cabinets. Either way, I personally find most soffits can make a home feel dated and extremely closed-in. When it came to our kitchen renovation, we had no idea what was behind our soffits. I debated whether or not I should remove them or somehow just work with…

Kitchen soffits, or furr downs, were popular in kitchen design in the 1990s. Nowadays, people want that space above cabinets.

As I start ramping up work on the hallway, guest bedroom, and home gym, it might be a few more days before I have any real progress to show you. In the meantime, I still have a couple of projects that I want to share in more detail from my mom’s kitchen makeover. But for...

Over this past weekend, we put to action the first baby-step of our house plan. After deciding to wait until summer/early fall to add on our big family room, we figured we could knock out some of the 'smaller' projects in the meantime. I say 'smaller' because this is kind of a big project. Much bigger than we thought it would be. But oh, soooo worth it. We decided to knock out the soffit in our kitchen. The soffit is the area between the tops of the cabinets and the ceiling that is drywalled…

Before AFTER When we first moved into our home we had the builders add a drywall soffit above all the cabinetry with plans that we would one day add crown and other trim work to it. While we had the dining room finish work done we had them complete the kitchen soffit as well. More Before's It is 3 pieces of trim - crown, a baseboard hung upside down, and pin mold at the bottom of the soffit. We had them trim out the windows as well. DONE!!! By the Way - The new white leather barstools from…

I've posted about this before on this blog and on my home staging blog - but since this project has been featured on some other blogs and ...

Custom Additions to a plain dated 30 yr old Oak Kitchen......Beadboard Soffit, Double Crown, Light Rail,Island customized and wrapped with Beadboard with

Kitchen soffits sometimes known as bulkheads can be difficult to deal with if they are creating too much of a protrusion in your home. A kitchen soffit can’t always be removed, but can often be disguised or covered up in ways that allow the soffit to blend in with the overall look of the kitchen.

A homeowner wanted to update her kitchen. First she knocks a hole through the cabinets, but then she does THIS! - This transformation is UNBELIEVABLE! I was tired of the outdated look of my soffits, after scouring the web for ideas I came up with these.