Rangecraft Manufacturing

10/21/2026

You've seen the photos. A copper hood front and center, a couple of thick wood shelves on each side with white plates and a jar of wooden spoons, and not a single upper cabinet in sight.

It's a good look. The catch? That wall takes every bit of heat, steam and grease your stove puts out, and a shelf has no door to hide behind.

So do it in order. Hood first. Get its size, height and ductwork worked out for the cooktop you actually have, because once a duct is framed into the wall, moving it is a real project.

Shelves are easy to shift. Plan them second.

Planning a range hood with open shelving? Hood height, width and depth, shelf clearances, CFM, duct rules and design tips to keep ventilation and style.

10/03/2026

No matter how big or how small, RangeCraft Range Hoods always become the “Focal Point” in your Kitchen. Shown here is our Canterbury Model Powder Coated White with Brass Trim. www.rangecraft.com

09/16/2026

The most important part of designing a custom range hood is choosing the design style, since this is the focal point of the kitchen, something to love and cherish for years to come. Under a vaulted or sloped ceiling, that choice matters even more, since the extra height changes how a hood needs to be scaled.

Why Ceiling Height Matters Under a Vault or Slope

One of the most important parts of designing a custom range hood, especially with a vaulted or sloped ceiling, is the ceiling height, meaning floor-to-ceiling height. This will determine the scale and size of the hood, since a tall, big, expansive hood wouldn't look the same under a short, flat ceiling, it would look short and squatty instead, and a vaulted ceiling gives room to go bigger.

Custom Range Hoods

There's an easy calculation to help figure out the height a hood needs to be, even under a sloped or vaulted ceiling.

Learn how to design custom range hoods for vaulted or sloped ceilings, covering scale, blower types, and duct sizing.

09/15/2026

Our Hi-Riser Curvette makes a statement in Mirrored Stainless Steel, contrasted by Matte Stainless trims for the subtle play on reflection and texture.
Designed for a showhouse, this hood needed to command attention - and Heidi brought it all together with a little Southern charm.
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09/07/2026

Happy Labor Day from all of us at RangeCraft.🇺🇸🛠🇺🇸

09/04/2026

A custom hybrid of our Proline + Baroque, featuring fin-like horizontal trims, a powder-coated body, and hand-finished Antiqued Brass accents.
Beauty meets engineering with makeup air incorporated directly into the hood—one of the many ways we've been customizing our ventilation systems to help meet the unique mechanical requirements of each project.
Thank you for allowing us to be a part of this beautiful project.

08/24/2026

Wondering which range hood blower is right for you? Learn about the three main types of blowers in this blog and choose the best fit.

Internal Blower

A local blower means the blower is installed right here inside the hood. The first is an internal blower. An internal blower goes right up in that hood and takes care of it right there. It's the easiest to install, it's the cheapest, but obviously that's going to be the loudest because it's right there in the hood, and it's being magnified by the steel if you have a canopy.

This is very quiet and located inside the hood, but in some applications customers want it even quieter.

Inline Blower

Internal vs Inline vs Remote Blowers

The inline blower is different from the regular blower that comes with your hood. The inline blower is installed in line with your ductwork, reducing the noise in your kitchen.

Compare internal, inline, and remote range hood blowers by noise level, CFM, and installation to find the right fit.

07/23/2026

A custom range hood for your brand-new kitchen is the focal point of your kitchen, so you want to make sure you love what you're looking at and will cherish it for years to come.

Cooking produces heat, grease, smoke, and odors that can linger in your home. A good ventilation system pulls all that out, keeping your kitchen fresh and your air clean, while protecting cabinetry, walls, and ceilings from grease buildup.

Installation and Design Styles for a Custom Range Hood

Start by choosing the design style for a custom range hood for your brand new kitchen. You want to determine if you want a traditional hood, a transitional hood, or a contemporary modern hood.

Custom Range Hood For Your New Kitchen

Contemporary and Cabinet Matched

A matte lacquer cabinet designed to match the cabinets, with a polished stainless-steel chrome trim at the bottom, allows cabinetry suppliers to insert the actual guts of the hood into it.

Pick a range hood: match design style, calculate mounting height, check duct diameter, compare internal and external blowers.

07/14/2026

The range hood might be the single busiest thing in your whole restaurant. All day, every service, it's hauling smoke, grease, heat, and stray onion fumes right out of the air. But here's the twist. In an open kitchen, it's also the very first thing guests actually see. So the best custom range hood pulls real double duty, brute performance and genuine beauty, with no compromise at all.

Picking one isn't just grabbing a box off a shelf. Not even close. Here's what actually separates a great custom range hood for a restaurant from a totally forgettable one.

Getting the Function Right

Style is nice. Function is what keeps the doors open. Before you fall hard for a finish, the hood has to do its real job, hard, all day, without complaint.

Custom Range Hood For Restaurants

Why Standard Hoods Fall Short

A restaurant line runs far hotter and much harder than any home stove ever will, full stop.

Restaurant custom range hoods: stainless steel, copper, brass options. Proper sizing, ventilation codes, statement designs.

06/24/2026

Custom range hood design starts by choosing the design style, or your preferred style of hood. That's the most important thing. This is the focal point of your kitchen, so what you're looking at should be something that you love and will cherish for years to come.

One of the most important things to determine: do you want a traditional hood, a transitional hood, or a contemporary modern hood? Different finishes and different colors are all possible. A hood can be a matte lacquer cabinet designed to match the cabinets of the island, or a plastered hood framed out by the contractor and then plastered over the face.

With really tall ceilings, you can go really high with the size of the hood, and it gives a grand feeling in the kitchen.

Know the Terminology

Custom Range Hood Design

On a finished metal custom hood, the parts are called banding, and the little dots are called rivets. Another term to know is duct cover, the section that literally covers the circular ducting.