Your eye does not move up and down so much as side to side. It is not important to match the uppers and lowers. It is important that the uppers look right with each other. In my small kitchen with cabinets on opposite walls, I selected doors widths (not too narrow, not too wide) that looked right to me for the height I selected. Then I made sure all the doors on a side were the same size. I'm happy with the uncluttered result.

Dear GWers, I am sorry I have not responded in a timely way. I was struggling with a minor kitchen near-disaster. What are the chances?? The drywall was hung on Tuesday. On Wed., the woman (yes, the woman) doing the drywall mudding/finishing said "Uhh, Oh. We have a problem!" My 1930 toilet decided to start leaking the day after drywalling was put up. Ruined a few sheets. Now, after my initial consternation, I was grateful it happened now. It could have happened AFTER the mudding and texturing were finished, or it could have happened after the full install. I hate to think about that. Anyway, I spent about 16 of the last 30 hours wrestling with old toilet technology. At one point, it looked like I was going to have to try to learn how to make a molten lead/oakum joint in the cast iron plumbing! Fortunately, it did not come to that! (Before you ask, there are good reasons to have repaired the old toilet rather than replace it with a new one.) Oh, and I was so excited to have drywall up; it was beginning to look like an actual room! Sigh. At least I was able to fix the old toilet, thanks to the good offices of the only plumbing store in town that deals with old fixtures. Anyway, back to cabinet symmetry. You generous people have come up with many good ideas! Chris, Lynn, KK, I immediately thought the corner was a great idea. I was (am) a little concerned about whether there was enough of a "leg" for it. As KK kalkulates, I think the leg could easily be 7", or perhaps more if I take more out of the larger cabinet. Then the For and Flor duo tag-teamed a perhaps better idea (and a new GW term, to boot!). I think I like a nearsighted corner. (Yes, the cabinetry will be custom, so this is feasible, I presume.) I wonder how this will look with stacked uppers? Back to the drawing board. Weissman, thanks for the concern. I have checked with my *very* pernickety municipality, and they declared there is no code issue with ranges and windows in our locale. They have signed off on my plans. Thank you so much, everyone. What a treasured resource for brainstorming!

The problem / challenge I realized with the earlier layout with symmetric high uppers over sink is that actually it wasn't symmetric over the sink. There is a light right in front of the sink and then the notch would be off center of the light in the ceiling-- at this point I can't change the lighting. (horrible electrician experience, but that's another story). If we make the cabinet on the right wood over glass then it really wants to be wider. This then makes the notch narrower and throws off the geometry. Our other contender was to do a double-upper over the fridge and then put a regular vert in the corner which could be a blind corner if we want, like this: (I put some glass/steel above the sink--this might be an alternate color tile, or something else... or nothing...) DW prefers either an all wood or all glass cabinet over dish washer so we can put 2 shelves in it, as this will be for cups and mugs. She thinks it would look funny to have a shelf inside 1/3 of the way up the cabinet with a split wood/glass door. Also, she (and our architect) didn't really like the single vert cabinet in the corner of the run. Same views, single vert at end, with shiny stuff: Our architect says this view is misleading, in that your eyes will never just see the one wall. So the end of peninsula view is probably the most telling: The rendering is also probably misleading because we have been thinking of using obscure glass, which is not nearly as shiny as this shows. The app just doesn't have a good texture to simulate that. I think I like it better overall with the single vert at the end-- it's a bit less busy, a bit calmer? I would like it maybe a bit more with the single vert a bit wider and the double upper on the same wall a bit narrower, but I want to keep the single vert to be really close to the height of the wood cabinet to its left (now it's 1 inch wider). Between the corner and the double upper there is 3" filler, plenty to allow the door to swing up and not hit handles on the adjacent corner cabinet next to the range. I could maybe increase this another inch and reduce that cabinet by an inch and then make the vert 1 inch wider, but that's about it. Another option would be to make the vert door all glass--but then it would be the only one like that.

Sorry I didn't respond to the individual responses yesterday, but long day at work and got home late, ate dinner then went to bed. Kompy, with regards to your first posting, I was just looking at the cabinets on either side of the window and range hood with the E-Z corner when I said symmetry. I didn't think of the e-z corner door sizes. I actually agree with you with regards to it looks strange with a 12" next to an 18" on the range wall. The e-z is an asymmetrical with a 27" leg on the window wall. Your clients kitchen looks similar in size to my kitchen. hollysprings, using a 41-42" blind corner on the range wall. Kompy, with regards to your second posting, I'm using 13.5" deep uppers. You are correct with your dims and math on the left size of the range wall. I have 42" from the corner to the range hood on the right. If I do the math, 42" - 13.5" = 28.5" which gives me butt doors that are 12.75" wide. I didn't think about doing the blind corner on the sink wall. If I do the math, I have 45.75" to the right of the window - 13.5" depth of cabinet on range wall which would give 32.25" which gives me 16.125" butt doors with a 15" wide door directly to the left of the sink. I do have a little more space on the sink wall for the uppers(about 1.5" on either side of the window), but currently have them butted against the window casing and don't like it that is why I'm holding them off the casing by a bit. Sorry, the bookcase isn't me style, but a great idea for someone. If I use the blind corner instead of the E-Z, I lose a little of usable space, but gain larger cabinets. Kompy you totally made sense. Thanks for making me look differently at the blind vs e-z corner situation. It appreciated. ardcp, I don't have abundance of cabinets like you. I'm learning that everybody situation is different and you have to go with what works best for you. Thanks again for everyone feedback and suggestions. Still open to other comments and feedback. Always can learn something new from this site especially the kitchen forum.