How To Build A Custom Island Range Hood Cover

In the end we chose the broan corteo 30 in white which is actually quite sleek and beautiful on its own and would look fabulous in an all white kitchen.

How to build a custom island range hood cover. When we build a diy range hood the inserts that we like to use are from zephyr. To make the hood look like a truly custom piece ensure that you complete the finishing touches that will make your hood look finished. We are moving right along on our kitchen update and today i am back to share how i gave our range hood a custom look for around 50. The basic idea was that we built a frame to house the broan hood fan insert out of mainly 3 4 plywood.

Diyer investorgirlbritt installs and finishes a custom kitchen range hood frame from archways ceilings. I had shared a couple of ideas of what i liked in this post here but they had different range hoods than we did so i had to figure out how to build a range hood cover that worked with the one we have. Build a custom decorative box to cover your old range hood. I first added two pieces of 1x4 pine to the sides of the cabinets using my keg jig to drill pocket holes and 2 pocket hole screws to attach.

Make sure you extend them at least 1 2 past the front of the vent hood and make sure both pieces are level with each other. We then hung the frame on the wall installed the broan insert and faced the frame with 1 4 mdf and then moulding. Reorganize your kitchen so you don t need the extra space of an overhead cabinet and then cover the front and sides with wood that you can stain or paint as shown here. Oh and as for the height of the range hood we just followed the manufacturer s recommendations the.

We didn t want to have to reach behind the cover to get to the switches. For more info on britt instagram. This detailed video offe. They have a variety of inserts that work for various hood sizes and looks.

The grit and polish has partnered with lowe s to show how any handyperson can design and build a statement hood vent in the kitchen. This was because we were building a diy custom range hood cover around the actual range hood. How to make a range hood fan cover. Building a wood range hood cover.

One of the challenges of building a range hood cover on cabinets configured like mine a 30 inch range hood flanked by cabinets on both sides is that the range hood cover can t encroach on the side cabinet space much at all or there won t be enough room for the cabinet doors on each side to open and close.