Kitchen soffit trim ideas

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…

Here's a great question from the Cottage Mailbag this week...Vicki asks: "Any suggestions for trimming out the cabinets with a soffit overh...

I feel like I’ve been teasing this post for months and so I’m excited that FINALLY have had a chance to share […]

Crown moulding and beadboard on top of cabinets to the ceiling, to match wainscoting

Fur down is the wall over your cabinets. Many people call it soffit but I was corrected when using that term and was told the construction term is fur down. You…

One of the aspects of our kitchen that I grew to dislike over our first few years in this house is the space over our kitchen cabinets. By no means was that space a major issue--we bought the house perfectly happy with that look, but I'm just not one for displaying knick-knacks and whatnot, so the open area felt empty. Instead of watching the open space fill with dust, Mike and I decided to find a way to customize it. Certainly not alone in this pursuit, I found a number of possibilities in…

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

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 I was tired of the outdated look of my soffits, after scouring the web for ideas I came up with these.

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…