How To Raise Kitchen Cabinets

Even with a person on each end those are really hard to lift because there is such little wiggle room they are squared with the walls and everything.

How to raise kitchen cabinets. I decided to raise my cabinets to the ceiling and build a shelf underneath to make the most of my kitchen space. Raising cabinets with limited man power is really hard especially if you have one long cabinet that spans the whole wall. Raise an upper cabinet.

But if you want to give your kitchen an inexpensive yet dramatic facelift heres how. Bear in mind these upgrades wont fix cabinets that are falling apart create more storage space or make your kitchen easier to navigate. Ive been aggravated for years by the wasted space above our kitchen cabinets but didnt want to replace them because of a the expense b the difficult of matching 20 year old lower cabinets c the desire to reducereuseso on and d did i mention the unnecessary expense.

Learn how easy it is to update your kitchen. After contemplating different scenarios involving extra cubbies or mini cabinets up top i decided that the best approach would be to raise the cabinets to the ceiling. Affiliate links may be contained in this post.

But when the beverage center arrived it was a bit taller than the opening we had for it thus we needed to raise the cabinets or get a new refrigerator. This video will show you how to raise your kitchen cabinets or bathroom vanities to make them three and a half inch higher from the floor. Now that youve planted this idea in my head im ready and rarin to dive in.

First you remove the countertop if youre going to. Our kitchen cabinets didnt go all the way to the ceiling leaving about a foot of wasted vertical space up top. In a small 1940s kitchen space is at a premium.

Thank you so much for the. In video 6 in this series master carpenter gary striegler shows how to upgrade your kitchen by making cabinets extend all the way to the ceiling.