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Colin Green writes:
Chris Hodges wrote:
I see no reason not to put the cupboards up to the ceiling. I
considered but rejected doing that on the grounds of wanting to reach
the contents. You have some (+/- approx 1/2 cm) vertical adjust on the
doors with the current hinges, which will allow you to make the door
just not touch the ceiling.

I think I'll go right up to the ceiling rather than leaving a large gap.

This can have a remarkable visual effect of shrinking the room.
If you have a large kitchen, it probably won't notice, but it
can make a smaller kitchen look even smaller than it is because
you lose the eye-line to the wall/ceiling corners, which has the
visual effect of bringing the walls in to the cupboard fronts.
The gap on top of cupboards is also handy for positioning concealed
indirect room lighting, bouncing off a light coloured or white
ceiling, with no shadows. (A central ceiling light in a kitchen
is usually remarkably useless, as whenever you are working around
the edge of the kitchen where worktops, cookers, sinks, etc are
normally positioned, you are working in your shadow.)

A word of warning though - cover panels for the 92cm cupboards are a
stupid length - they seem to assume you will fit decor strip across the
front between cover panel on both sides.

Sorry I'm new to this - which bit is the cover panel?

A panel which goes on the end of a run of cupboards, to hide the
white cupboard carcass with a panel which matches the doors.
If you aren't fitting the decor strip under cupboards, simply
cut the top off the cover panel so it fits on the end of the
carcass without hanging down below. ISTR cover panels for the
base units are 70cm, but they're wider so you would have to cut
the back off instead, but this can be better if you wall isn't
flat as you can cut it to follow the curvature of the wall.

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Andrew Gabriel