anyone?

This is not the answer for your question...but if you are planning on storing your pots and pans in the lower cabinets by your range, I would make them all drawers. Less steps to get the item that you need.

drawing is wrong, its a rangetop, and has two big drawers.

What direction does that side of the house face and how far is the neighbor house that you said you didn't want a view of in your last post? It might be that those windows won't really gain you much light to justify their expense. If natural light was a concern, I'd have put the range on the other wall and a sink with a window on the exterior wall, regardless of the view. In your designer's defense, the windows weren't shown on the previous plans you posted which begs the question of whether the designer knew of your plan to install windows above the cabinets. Knowing window placements early on would've revealed the issues long before now.

are you installing new clerestory windows or are they already there? If not, rework the design.

shead, my kitchen designer laid out a kitchen we both liked, now we both hate as it actually has staggered cabinets in the corner, over the refrigerator and over the wall oven. yes i agree, the window thing wasnt a concrete plan, it was more of a lets figure that out later depending on how the room looks when we close up all the windows. and we did, it needs more natural.

ill blame him to take some of the burden of myself, either way. i now am stuck with coming up with a plan to fix the staggered kitchen.

over the refrigerator, instead of using the 12" high cabinets, i can just put a 6" panel he said.

for the wall oven cabinet, i guess I will just have it cut down and new doors put in, basically make a new cabinet at 90" tall.

all this staggered talk though, has my wife and I completely questioning the staggered height of the corner cabinet at 42" it sits 6" above the rest of the kitchen. the look seems alittle dated, and I am thinking to either get rid of the cabinet and leave space in corner or just have another built at the 36" and getting rid of the staggered look everywhere.

thoughts? if i did that, i am guessing the diagonal is dated as well and people just do the 90 degree "blind" cabinet right?

the structure /windows isnt the problem, the crown returning to the wall b/c its actually 6" higher than the upper cabinets is the problem.

my likely plan was to buy the windows. i just wanted to first see how much natural light was there without them (as the other side of the kitchen is fully of windows and french doors and 9 foot tall light.

either way, i need a solution for the matter and to move forward.

my plan is to lose the staggered look everywhere, 96" wall oven cabinet, cut down by cabinet maker, add new doors, make it 90", for corner diagonal lose that and make new blind corner no glass cabinet at 36"H to match heights

above refrigerator instead of 12" cabinets, just put a 6" panel with the crown over it. this way entire kitchen now ends at 90" height, except the hood which will go to 9'. coffered ceiling will come down off the 10' ceiling 6"

thanks kristin, i like the idea, but i really dont want to look out these windows the view is terrible and i just want some extra natural light.

I think only one staggered cabinet in the corner would look bad. Can you keep the higher oven and fridge cabinets and adjust the size of the windows? But don’t listen to another thing that KD says.