One of the many things we liked about our kitchen designer Jim is that he came up with lots and lots of ideas. You know the saying 'Been there, done that", well it's also try in home improvements / renovations. Jim has been in kitchen design for many years.
When he toured our newly purchased home as part of the design process for measurement taking, etc., he noticed that directly above each of the cabinets were bulkheads. What are bulkheads? They are simply additional drywall installed in the shape of a rectangle between the top or head of the cabinet and the ceiling.
Their purpose? Well, in some cases they contain pipes or wires and are meant to hide them for visual aesthetics. In our case, they were simply to either have lower kitchen cabinets or for aesthetics which looked nice 20 years ago but now do not.
So, Jim suggested since we were about t68Eo start the demolition mode, why not simply remove them, and re-drywall the area of the ceiling and wall that they were covering.
Excellent suggesting. It really opened up the kitchen and made it not look so enclosed. And, in fact this only added more cabinet space on one of the three sides of the kitchen. On the other two sides we decided not to have the upper cabinets to all the way to the ceiling and again it looks very nice. In the future we can put accent lighting on top of these upper cabinets if we want to.
So, if you are doing a full, or even a partial, kitchen renovation, and if you have bulkheads between the top of your upper cabinets and the ceiling, consider removing them. It opens up the kitchen, give you more upper cabinet space and allow for accent lighting.
To access more postings and view many photographs from our home renovation experiences, please use the link below to access our blog, Daily Home Renovation Tips.
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