How to DIY a Custom Range Hood for Under $50

After I consider builder grade, the primary place I consider is the kitchen. Greater than some other space of the home, kitchens are typically on the high of everybody’s “what I need to change about my dwelling” listing. And the place to start out with taking your kitchen from builder-grade to stunning (since that’s type of our factor)? With the cupboards!

All of it begins with painting (usually), however there are many nice choices past paint, too. Our visitor at present is displaying how she upgraded her cupboards with a DIY customized vary hood (for below $50!):

Scroll down for Jill’s superior tutorial:

Hello everybody! I’m Jill from The Rozy Home and I’ve been running a blog my method by way of a transform for the previous few months. I’m an enormous fan of Remodelaholic and have getting impressed from Cassity and the gang for the previous few years. Think about my shock after they requested me to do a visitor submit about my $50 Customized Vary Hood!

We purchased our home in 2010, two months after the beginning of our son, and I’ve been working continuous since then to make our home our dwelling. After we walked into our dwelling the primary time, I checked out my husband and mentioned “nope.” However then one thing fantastic occurred. We went exterior on the higher deck and noticed the view.

Oh the view! I usually name it our little piece of heaven in the midst of the Texas hill nation. I took a minute, walked round the home and determined that I might make this place stunning. It had a superb structure, the rooms had been massive and it had a ton of potential.

One of many first initiatives we labored on was the kitchen. It regarded slightly one thing like this once we purchased it.

The very first thing I did was paint the cupboards and take away that dreadful microwave from over the range. Why did I take away the microwave? Though I do know there isn’t any show of it being a difficulty, I simply don’t like having a microwave buzzing subsequent to my head whereas I’m cooking. My resolution was to simply take it down and exchange it with a vent.

One of many questions/feedback I hear probably the most is “What was unsuitable with it like that?” or “It regarded tremendous prefer it was” That’s the factor – it regarded tremendous. Nothing spectacular – simply tremendous. Since our kitchen opens as much as our residing space, I have a look at it – rather a lot! I needed extra persona. Oh and did I point out that vent I bought match completely into the cupboards? So good, in actual fact, that I couldn’t plug it in. For the final two years I had no vent, and no mild.

Useful trace: When ordering a vent to make use of for this venture, be sure to order one a number of inches smaller (width and depth) than your cupboards. Looks like widespread sense, proper? However when you find yourself new to reworking/DIY issues that ought to be widespread sense aren’t all the time so black and white.

Additionally, slightly observe in regards to the vent itself (as a result of boy have I gotten a ton of questions on this a part of it): you should utilize an outdoor venting unit for this venture. The vent I chosen was recirculating as a result of that’s the method my dwelling was arrange. I had quotes to get an outdoor venting system put in but it surely was in extra of $1000 (the facet of our dwelling was stone so it might have required a masonry skilled along with plumbing/electrical). As a result of this tutorial is for the vary hood, the vent you employ makes no distinction (recirculating or exterior venting).

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Constructing the vary hood

Supplies

• 1 4X8 Birch Plywood Panel
• 1 X 2 X 8 Help Boards
• 1 x 3 X 8 Pine Board (for high face)
• 1 X 4 X 8 Pine Boards (for backside face)
• 2 8 foot lattice items: $7.28
• Liquid Nail: $2.52
• Trim Items: $8.52

Step by Step DIY Customized Vary Hood

Start by taking off the cupboard doorways and eradicating the underside of the cupboard. I additionally knocked out the entrance assist piece. Now you might be questioning why wouldn’t I simply take away the middle cupboard unit. I couldn’t. The facet and center cupboards are all one piece – bummer! If you’re fortunate sufficient to have a separate heart cupboard, all you must do is take away that part.

I’m certain you observed I didn’t transfer the range (and even the tea kettle). My husband cracked the cooktop final yr so it solely has one functioning burner. Please, please, please transfer or no less than cowl your range previous to doing this venture.

After demoing and cleansing, resolve how far you need the hood to venture out. I performed with just a few various lengths earlier than choosing 16 inches. Subsequent, float within the two facet helps, stage them up and fasten them to the adjoining cupboards utilizing a nail gun.

Add the back and front helps.

Bear in mind how I mentioned the vent match simply completely? Effectively due to that I needed to connect the vents to the facet of the helps. Since all of you’ll be buying a vent that’s smaller than the house offered, I might advocate doing the next:

Measure the width of your cupboards within the entrance and the again (they need to be the identical, however generally they are often off by a 1/2 inch or so).

Minimize two assist beams to this width.

Subsequent, minimize two assist beams to the general size you selected for the vary hood (for me it was 16 inches).

Connect the helps collectively, making a field body. Do that exterior of the cupboard house (in your workshop). 

Subsequent, minimize a 3/4 inch thick piece of plywood to the general width and size of the completed field body. Set the vent on high of the plywood and draw an overview. Minimize out the outlined part. Connect the plywood to the underside of the field body. 

Connect the field body to cupboard.

Now we’re all on the identical web page!

Connect the vent to the helps.

Set up the vent (ie plug it in, connect the skin venting, if wanted, and so on).

Subsequent, add a entrance face to the underside assist. It ought to be roughly 1/2 inch longer than the assist and ought to be mitered to 45 levels on each ends.

Subsequent measure the quantity of uncovered helps on the facet and minimize a face entrance for all sides (once more with mitered edges).

Connect a thinner face entrance to the highest of your cupboard body (the highest face entrance is identical size as the underside face entrance and also needs to be mitered on the ends).

Relying on how far your high face entrance stands out, you will have to chop facet face fronts for the higher part as properly.

Measure the size between the highest and backside face entrance and minimize three helps beams to that dimension. Connect them to the again of the face fronts (I mitered the ends of the boards in order that they’d connect simply behind the face fronts).

After including the helps, measured the open space from the skin of the left assist to the skin of the fitting assist and from the highest face entrance to the underside.

Utilizing these measurements, minimize out a plywood sq..

Connect the plywood to the helps utilizing a nail gun.

As a result of the hood is slanted, the plywood ought to sit proper behind each the higher and decrease face fronts.

Subsequent, decide the angle of the facet items. For lack of a greater choice, I folded a chunk of cardboard over the facet after which minimize the cardboard to dimension.

Utilizing the nifty cardboard template, hint out the sample on a chunk of plywood and minimize. Connect to helps utilizing a nail gun.

Mine weren’t good however they didn’t have to be (the lattice and caulk will cowl up the sides).

After attaching the perimeters, sand the whole vary hood.

Subsequent, minimize two items of lattice to the width of the middle plywood space (ensuring to miter them on the sides).

Measure the size between the higher and decrease lattice piece and minimize 5 items of lattice to this size. Connect in equally spaced segments throughout the entrance of the plywood. Be sure you have a chunk of lattice on every edge – this can assist “disguise” these imperfect facet items. 

For you budget-savvy DIYers, right here is how the associated fee broke down.

• Birch Plywood Panel: $10.67
• 1 X 2 X 8 Help Boards: $2.61
• 1 x 3 X 8 Pine Board (for high face): $5.43
• 1 X 4 X 8 Pine Boards (for backside face): $8.64
• 2 8 foot lattice items: $7.28
• Liquid Nail: $2.52
• Trim Items: $8.52
• Complete: $45.67!

Notice: This doesn’t embody the crown moulding. I used to be changing all of that on my cupboards anyway so I already had it readily available.

Jill, I like it! What an awesome replace for such a small funding, each money and time. I really like kitchens with persona!

Pay Jill a go to at The Rozy Home and see all the opposite nice issues she’s doing in her dwelling!

UPDATE: Jill painted her vary hood to seem like the beautiful farmhouse fashion metallic vary hoods. So beautiful! Take a look at the main points here.

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