I have almost the same cabinets in my kitchen as you started with natural maple 30 ″ with a 15 ″
soffit, and on top of that another 2 feet open space / dust collecting drywall (ceiling of
soffit) and want desperately to remove the
soffit and the homebuilder's special fluorescent lights that are installed in the bottom of the
soffit, completely around the
entire kitchen (7 sets of florescent lights with thin sheets of plastic covering the opening).