I'd totally notice! Drove us nuts that our counters were a little lower than standard height when we bought our house (knew it needed to be remodeled from the 1920s original though so it didn't matter). That being said I think it depends on how much it costs. I also really like having some standard height and some higher height in our kitchen so that there are work spaces for different people. DH doesn't mind the cooktop being lower - ergonomically it just doesn't matter as much as for prepping.

Dear Christie, Congratulations on getting the opportunity of building a new home! You can’t get much help and certainly not the help you really want and need when you ask either or questions. Mostly what you’ll get is opinion. I’d give you my opinion but without knowing what your problem really is, it wouldn’t be helpful to you. Tell us how you feel and what it is you really want. What’s bothering you about where you are stuck right now? What you are experiencing happens to almost everyone taking on a kitchen project. That wants more than a trendy new kitchen to replace their old one. You should be a little freaked out. How can you possibly be really good at something you haven't done many times before? I’m going to go out on a limb and say it’s not just a new kitchen you want but a new life. You’re designing and building a new home so you can begin your new, easier, better life. The one you really want that you don’t get to live in your existing home right now. It’s obvious that you have doubt and uncertainty, because your layout with one island has cabinetry nomenclature on it. Which means it’s supposed to be your final plan, and your cabinetry is ready for ordering. You might even feel pressured to finalize and order. Since you haven’t ordered your cabinetry you have doubts if this is the kitchen you really want and expect to get. Your doubt and uncertainty are well founded and your intuition is right! You want Proof that your intuition is right, right? No problem you can prove this to yourself by answering a very simple very obvious question. Almost no one asks this until AFTER their new kitchen is done and it too late. Most designers don't ask their clients it either. Imagine this first. Everyone working on your new kitchen project is done and gone. You’re alone in your beautiful new kitchen thrilled and moving in. You’re standing in your new kitchen, surrounded by all of your boxes packed from your old one. What I want you to do now is answer this very simple question. “Where are all of your kitchen items from your old kitchen going to go in your new one?” Seems like a pretty obvious question. It’s also an extremely powerful one. Because if you ask it BEFORE your new kitchen design drawings are done it changes Everything! Until now you haven’t been asked it. So answer it now. Get out your kitchen design drawings, using your kitchen layout (plan) and interior elevations and locate all of your kitchen items. If you don’t know where to begin, your kitchen design drawings are not the directions for creating the kitchen you really want, need, and expect to begin living your new life in. They are plans to simply replace your old kitchen with a new one in your new home. And you'll figure out how your new kitchen works, where all your stuff goes, and if it fits. On your own as you're moving in by Adapting to your new kitchen and making do with what you got. Click this link for a DIY Solution https://www.kitchendesignco.com/new-kitchen-doesnt-work/ Before right now you believed these drawings were going to deliver the kitchen you really wanted. You have your doubts. Now you are certain beyond any doubt that they won’t. So, what happens if you don’t locate all of your items and revise your kitchen design drawings? You’ll get a beautiful new kitchen everyone else loves,but no new life. Certainly not the new, easier, better life you could have had and were expecting. If you continue without properly answering the question, you’ll be forced to adapt to yet another kitchen you inherited. Only this time it won’t be the one you inherited when you bought the home you're in now. The one you had to adapt to, by putting your things where ever they fit. And as long as you know where everything is you'll make do. This time it’s your new kitchen that you'll have to adapt to and make do with. That you inherited from your designer. Then you'll realize you missed your big opportunity for real lasting life and home improvement. New Kitchen = New Life Inside the World’s Perfect Kitchen Joe Brandao Kitchen Design Company P.S.: Here are perspectives of a client’s kitchen drawn with Two Island and with One. They are very different kitchens. She decided to go with two Islands. I like one, but I don’t get to decide because I don't live in her home.

For your kitchen island, if you're getting 2 pendants, we would recommend close to what you're thinking and doing them 30"-32" apart and at least 32" off from the surface. But for the size of your kitchen island, we would recommend 3 pendants and have them approximately 20"-24" apart. Please see attached images to get an idea of how far apart they should be. Hope this helps a bit!

Pendants need a minimum of 12” above to hang, or they aren’t pendants. More is better. Lighting placement is 30”-36” from the 36”H surface being lit. So, 66”-72” above the floor. 108” ceilings minus 72”, leaves 36”. Minus the 12” minimum open space above, means the *maximum* size that any pendants can be is 24”H. And you will need supplemental recessed lights to supplement the weird hot spots and shadows created by your lighting choice. They are a poor choice for a workroom with knives and boiling water.