Removing bulkhead in kitchen

Is it worth the trouble to remove your kitchen soffits? Here are 3 options if you don't want to tear them out

Build a shelf into soffit

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…

We're finally almost finished with our kitchen remodel, and I finally got a card reader to download photos from my camera, so here we go! A ...

How are y'all doing this week? Getting ready for the holidays? Instead of decorating, we did some demolition in the kitchen this past weekend. And it involved buying myself an early Christmas present: I snatched

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

Looking for ways to disguise a kitchen soffit? This DIY tutorial shows a creative kitchen soffit makeover that you can do, too!

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I’ve been putting off sharing this post, because my kitchen isn’t exactly where I want it. I was hoping to remove the bulkhead above the sink and change out the light. Instead there is a hole in the bulkhead and a light (that I’m not even sure I love for this space) sitting in a box. But I’m here,

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…