How We Built Our Stove Hood for (Almost) Free!

by Caroline

This is what I looked at for over 6 months.We did pay to have the stove plumbed for propane gas and properly vented.
And then it sat.
Like this.
For a LONG time,
Then finally it was time! (Meaning my husband had decided we could actually do this!)

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We started by framing around the vent pipe with 2 X 2's. We wanted to minimize the weight on the hood and knew it wasn't going to have to carry much weight either. So 2x2's would be adequate. Plus we already had them!

The 2x2's were actually left over from redoing our porch rails last summer. So if we get a lot of rain in the kitchen we certainly don't have to worry about wood rot (wink)

I forgot to take a picture of it, but we added bracing for where we knew the shelf and corbels were going to go.

We bought 2 sheets of luan (very thin wood) at the big orange store that were about $9.00 each (our only cost) and they were nailed up over the framing.

One side is paintable (white) and the other side is brown. It didn't matter that the brown edges were showing because we put corner trim over that later.

We are also redoing our island (hope to have that up soon!) and the framing and bead board came off that. Hubby just cut it to size.

This is the hood all primed. Then I painted the bead board section red and when that dried, painted everything the cabinet color. Then I lightly sanded the bead board to show a little bit of the red.