Adding Kitchen Cabinets Above Existing Cabinets

Add a 22 board to the top of your cabinets with 2 brad nails and a brad nailer.

Adding kitchen cabinets above existing cabinets. Except do you use the cathedral style door profile above it or do you use the straight profile of the lower cabinets. Attach the cabinet doors youre finished youre done. Thankfully several alternate options are available.

Fit the side cleats. Ive wanted to add smaller upper cabinets to the top of ours for a while but we have two corner cabinets I havent been able to find a 12 cabinet to match them so I gave up on that dream slightly. However seeing how you framed in the area above yours gives me hope.

To get started I first removed the face frames from my old cabinets. Next take measurements of the cabinet space. Adding an additional 12 cabinet will look great.

Measure from the back. That baby isnt going anywhere. We Kreg Jigged the frame into the cabinets.

Get some L hinges screw them into place on the existing cabinets. Add On To Existing Upper Cabinets. Measure the tops of your cabinets to determine your materials list.

Adding a shelf below and beside the cabinets gave me the old storage space Im used to but with the opportunity to put my prettier dishes on displaya chance for decorating that I was aching for. Cut 2x4s to the height from your cabinets to the ceiling place them vertical skinny side facing you to where the doors will attach on either side of one 2x4. We held a scrap piece of 14 plywood in front of the 22 to line it.