Determine how high you want to mount your cabinet. Standard height for an ironing board is 36 inches off the ground, but you need to allow for the height of the cabinet itself.The kit instructions should tell you how much space you need to allow, but 9 inches is standard, so if that's th case you want to measure up 27 inches from the ground (36- 9 = 27).Measure up from the floor 27 inches and make a mark on the wall. This is be where the bottom of the cabinet will sit.roning boards are the bane of our existence. We need to have them, but they take up so much space. Even folded up, they're still big and bulky and take up a lot of space in a closet. In new construction you can avoid this problem by installing an ironing board in between the wall studs.