Building the Cabinets up to the ceiling

Hello everyone! As promised, here are the details on how to make the cabinets go all the way to the ceiling.    This is the way it looked without the top part:

Since all that part above the cabinets was already an enclosed area (by the walls and ceiling), I decided to build a simple face frame to make it look like open boxes or cabinets up there, where I could showcase decorative items, nothing too heavy.  

To put these pieces together I used the Kreg Jig, I do not know how to do this any other way! This Jig is amazing to put two pieces of wood (side by side or perpendicular to each other) together. Like this:

The face frame was put together off-site

Second, a long piece of plywood was screwed on top of the cabinets,  after that, two plywood divisions were screwed to the long piece of plywood at the bottom, and finally, the face frame was nailed to the divisions and also screwed to the bottom long piece of plywood.

Here you can see how the plywood divisions were installed.

Decorative molding was placed at the front edge to cover the rough edges.  At the top crown molding finished it up.

After caulking and priming, it was ready for paint.... but, I also want to show you how I covered the holes in that cabinet, remember?

A piece of plywood to cover each hole was attached to the wall.  To even out the seams I used joint compound, at that time I didn't have wood filler, I run out of it, I guess that would be more appropriate...

Then, a piece of drywall tape was used to smooth out those seams.  This is not the conventional way to do it but as I said, at the time that's the best solution I could think of..

...and so far it has worked well!

Check the final Laundry Room reveal right here.

By the way, if you don't have a big enough space to build them up, maybe you just want to cover that area, as I did with my kitchen cabinets here.