Updating your kitchen? You’ll definitely be looking into kitchen hoods. If reducing that unwanted smell from smoke and fumes and want the best solution for moisture and heat from cooking, then it’s a wise decision to invest in a good kitchen exhaust hood that will provide the proper ventilation. It’s important to consider size, shape, and mounting type when choosing your design. Here are six kitchen range hood design ideas to think about.
1. Wall-Mounted Range Hoods
The most popular type of vent hood get installed directly in your kitchen wall and over the cooking range. Typically, these wall-mounted range hoods vent air out through an exterior wall behind them. Therefore, it’s best to use these if your cooking range is installed on an exterior wall.
1. Wall-Mounted Range Hoods
You install the most popular type of vent hood directly in your kitchen wall and over the cooking range. Typically, these wall-mounted range hoods vent air out through an exterior wall behind them. Therefore, it’s best to use these if your cooking range is installed on an exterior wall.
4. Kitchen Island Hood
Lastly, you mount these kitchen island range hoods on the ceiling and vented through a ductwork in the ceiling and out through the roof either with a roof cap or through an exterior wall.
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2. Under Cabinet Range Hoods
Under cabinet range hoods come in a compact size and are the most regularly used range hoods. It is a more traditional type but comes in elegant designs and are mounted underneath the kitchen cabinets directly above the cook top.
5. Custom Kitchen Hoods
You tailor the shapes, material, and styles of custom kitchen hoods according to the preference and requirements of the designer or homeowner to basically have a more unique and personalized look all over.
3. Ceiling-Mounted Range Hoods
You use ceiling-mounted hoods for cook tops placed in the middle of the room. Because of this, you often position them directly above a kitchen island to provide an effective kitchen work triangle.
6. Wood Kitchen Hoods
You use a wood kitchen hood to cover a metal exhaust hood especially for many traditional, old world, and Tuscan kitchen design theme. By adding elegant details on the wood and applying different types of wood finishes and stains, these kitchen range hoods can be integrated into the kitchen cabinetry for specialty cabinet lines or ornate cabinet lines.