Soffit in kitchen

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.

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

While you can’t always remove your kitchen soffits, you can find ways to minimize their impact on your kitchen design. Here are our tips for how to handle the soffit when remodeling your kitchen...

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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…

Fill it in? Make use of it? Here are some ideas.

It’s finally time to dive into our Kitchen reno!! I feel like I’ve waited a lifetime for this! If are curious about all of our plans for our kitchen, you can read all about it on THIS blog post! We are hiring professional painters to paint the cabinets. It is a project I’ve told myself I will never try to do on my own. I know myself, and I don’t think I would be patient enough to do all the steps so that it would be durable. The painters are coming to pickup the cabinet doors and drawer…

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I have shared many rooms in our home over the past couple years on my blog but have never shown the kitchen. It is attached to the dining ...