When selecting your ideal custom cabinets, the cabinet height is a significant factor. There are a few key points to consider—and remember, N-Hance pro’s can help with professional cabinet refacing in Columbia, Maryland.

The height of your cabinets will impact the visual aesthetic of the room and also its scale. Cabinet height gives an optical illusion—whether for better or worse—of how tall your ceilings are. How tall cabinets are is also a practical decision as it determines the amount of storage you have in your kitchen.

Here are a few key categories to consider when choosing the best height for your cabinets:

How much storage you need
The presence of crown molding in your kitchen
How tall your ceilings are
Your design preferences

Now that you’ve narrowed those key considerations down, here are some examples of standard cabinet heights and in which kitchens they’ll look best:

Wall Cabinets. These cabinets range from 30 to 36 inches and are perfect in kitchens with 8 foot ceilings. There are also 42 inch options for kitchens with 9 feet ceilings or taller.

Upper Cabinets. It’s a great idea to maximize cabinet storage by selecting upper cabinets that reach the ceiling. There are 48, 51, and 54 inch tall options to choose from depending on the height of your countertops.

Short Cabinets. Short cabinets can also be utilized and stacked together to create more storage and fill in spaces between upper cabinets and ceilings or in kitchens with soffits.

Tall Cabinets. Floor to ceiling cabinets are available in 96 inch options for 8 foot rooms.

Cabinet Refacing In Columbia, Maryland

Kitchen designs used to popularly feature upper cabinets with a foot or more of space between the top and the ceiling where decor could be displayed. Today, you’ll see more cabinets that reach the ceiling, elongating the room, drawing the eye upward, and making the entire space look taller. These cabinets also provide significantly more storage.

If your cabinets don’t reach the ceiling, shorter cabinets can be added on top of existing ones. N-Hance specializes in enhancing your existing cabinets and also making them more functional with cabinet refacing in Columbia, Maryland.

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