OUr ceilings are 10 1/2 ft and our uppers are 48" . I repurposed antique glass windows for the uppers. We have all glass shelves. None of ours come to the top of the room and the tops of the cabs have a nice crown to finish them and the room itself has a big crown as this is an 1890 home and we wanted to keep it age appropriate . I have very wide crown in all rooms in the downstairs.

Here is the baking side of the room. There is a 30" deep counter here of soapstone. The bottom edge of the cabs are 24" from the countertop. There are 3 glass shelves in the cabs...so 4 all together when you count the lowest wood.

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This is the coffee area and has another 48" cab and a repurposed antique marble slab for the counter. You can see part of the oven cab. It too doesn't reach the ceiling.

This is a pic up close of the rooms crown...and our cool "inside out corner" .

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Here is the Miele oven cab:

Here is the Twins cab/bookcase space. This is what rhome410 copied from me and loves it too !

Hope this helps you and let me know if I can give you any other measurements. c

I love your paint color!
Is it a blue or green, or both depending upon the light?
It is really rich and shows off your beautiful cabinetry and floors.

Lovely.

This is my current kitchen - 9 years old - so I would not normally share it, but it has 10' ceilings with 42" uppers. Hope this helps.

Hi Mom23,

My ceilings are 10 feet, and the first stack of uppers is exactly 42 inches. The second row of uppers (the small square ones) plus crown moulding are about 22 inches total.

Christine, the color is from the Olympic paint palette at Lowes but made up in BM matte. It is Thyme. A rich green that matches my Provencal linens that DS1 and DIL brought me when they were there. I love the color and you are right it changes at the light hits it. Part of that is due to the ceramic that is present in the BM Matte..that is why it is scrubbable. My kitchen is over 6 yrs old but I am lucky that the design and execution are " timeless" :) Had to be as I will never do another reno !

Madeline...my Mom and DD are both Madeline ...Maddie for short and affection. I love love your kitchen and remember that wonderful window. c

Thank you so much for the pics so far. It really helps to see these things. Two feet sounds like a lot of empty space between the top cabinet and ceiling, but I guess it's different with the two moldings. So many beautiful kitchens around here!!!

Two feet seems like a lot to me, too, especially if they are all the same height. It will look quite linear. What about your vent? What kind of vent are you doing? can that go all the way up? I have posted so many pictures of my kitchen that even *I* am sick of it :) but here goes...
I have 10' ceilings, and the cabs are 42" but I stuck all that crown on them and did the vent cab all the way up.

Thanks so much, Trailrunner! And I love your kitchen, especially your countertops!

Good luck with your cabinet figuring, Mom23. I've been there--looking at magazine pics and trying to figure out measurements in kitchen photos by counting tiles, etc ;)

Nini- that looks about exactly how my builder described it! Awesome! Thank you so much for sharing. Yes, the vent hood will be made out of cabinetry an go all the way to the ceiling. He also suggested giant crown moulding on top of the cabinets, probably like yours. Do you like it? Does the moulding work for you? I think your kitchen looks beautiful. :-) what are you floors? (we also have to work on that decision ASAP too since it will affect so many of our other design choices!)

Nini- I googled and found your finished kitchen post from September. You have a beautiful house!!! Any chance you have a picture of the "study" with the piano? We will be putting our piano in our "study" as well. :-)

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Our 42 inch cabinets are at 8 feet. I was also worried about the 10 foot ceiling. We used large molding and height variation to try to fill the extra two feet to the ceiling.

Nini- that looks about exactly how my builder described it! Awesome! Thank you so much for sharing. Yes, the vent hood will be made out of cabinetry an go all the way to the ceiling. He also suggested giant crown moulding on top of the cabinets, probably like yours. Do you like it? Does the moulding work for you? I think your kitchen looks beautiful. :-) what are you floors? (we also have to work on that decision ASAP too since it will affect so many of our other design choices!)

Hi Mom23Es! Our floors are 5" white oak with a 75% Jacobean 25% Walnut stain. I do love all the trim on my cabinets! Even though I love the look of ones that go all the way up...I am only 5'2". Seemed kind of silly to pay all that extra for storage that would be quite inconvenient for me to use. Sadly, my study currently looks exactly the same as it did in September! That poor room keeps getting shoved down the priority list! :)

Our house is in progress. We're doing JUST that...a contoured wood hood to the ceiling and 10 foot cabinets with molding above (the molding and the hood are not on yet) Here's some pics of the VERY rough kitchen without anything other than cabinets with unadjusted doors:

Here's the hood. Well, not THE hood. The paint wasn't right so it has to be fixed. But that's the shape minus the molding at the top:

Sink side of kitchen. I wish I'd have gotten a better shot since you can't see the glass cab on the right of the window. But you can see that in the range wall pic above I guess. There will be a window seat to the area to the left of the kitchen (that's the dining table area) with solid-door hutches on each side of those wing walls that face inwards. We are doing those to the ceiling to break up the line of cabinetry around the room and add height along with the hood. The built-ins on either side of the fireplace (that's covered up with that big board over on the left side) will go to 8 feet. Those will be cabinets on bottom and open shelves on the top with the backs painted out a gray shade:

I looked to nini's kitchen for inspiration too. It's so pretty!

Here's some kitchens with hoods to the ceiling and cabinets down a foot or two:

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I have 10' ceiling and my cabinets are 48". My builder had a shorter option in the model homes and I thought they looked, well, short. Some of the examples on this thread don't look bad, though, so I suppose it's all in the details.

Interesting to see other's interpretation. My hood goes all the way to the ceiling also. I had them sheetrock the whole top part as I use it as an art gallery wall. Currently there are things from Provencal. I change it up with New Orleans photos and other art.

Some of the photos above look like a cavern at the top...makes the room look tall but the cabs look stubby , short. I think proportion is a really important part of the whole scheme. Be careful that you don't end up with an abyss of empty useless space at the top. Crown etc is all well and good but for very little more you can have storage that is useful as well as beautiful and elegant. c

For many it's not just a little more to add those upper cabinets but adds quite a bit more to the kitchen cost. For us and many others who have posted here, it became cost prohibitive to do them. I guess it also depends on the scope of your project and other things you have in your budget. I found it helpful to see photos of other kitchens with similar situations that were pretty.

I'll certainly be thankful when our molding gets added so our upper gap will get smaller. But I feel like in our very open space with the other cabinetry in the other areas, we'll have a nice balance and the effect will be nice. I was surprised to find that when we walked in and saw the cabinets up for the first time, the uppers look really tall. I almost think having white all the way to the top might overpower things in our room since you walk into the room right by the kitchen and we have a lot of other cabinetry and woodwork going in there. I don't necessarily think stacked cabinets are essential in every situation. I think both types can be very pretty.