If you can't find an off-the-shelf range hood that suits your kitchen, you can build your own from scratch-or you can take an easier route, as we did. Archways & Ceilings offers many range hood designs that you can size perfectly for your space.
Once you have chosen your design and have supplied dimensions (following the instructions on its website), Archways & Ceilings cuts all the parts for your range hood kit and ships it to your door. You assemble the hood and then finish it as you wish. On the following pages, we'll walk you through the steps to install it.
CUSTOMIZE YOUR HOOD
Archways & Ceilings offers an array of possibilities for customizing range hoods. Bella, the style we chose for our kitchen, is just one option.
The company also makes curved framing kits for archways, ceilings and walls, or "your hard-to-build stuff."
1 ASSEMBLE THE BOTTOM BOX
Gather your parts and assemble the hood's bottom box with construction screws. All the parts have precut joinery for foolproof assembly.
2 ASSEMBLE AND HANG THE TOP
This story is from the October - November 2022 edition of Family Handyman.
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