As the room looks quite modern I don't see a reason to do this. How about paint?

-- amateur

I agree with the above, room too modern and too many angles, crown doesn’t really fit this style.

Goldarn, someone's rotator cuffs are in good shape!

Sorry, no molding up there.

But here is something else you can spend your money on-

Why don't you take your kitchen cabinets all the way up to the ceiling?

you can add boxes on top that have either solid doors or glass doors that are transparent glass or frosted glass or reeded glass.

Or some sort of interesting curved mullions (is that the correct term?)

Or a mix of both.

Leaving that space above the cabinets makes the kitchen seem somewhat unfinished.

Like someone whose slacks are too short.

Or like it was a house build on spec , or a flip in the most inexpensive way.

And that is clearly not what is happening here.

Thanks to the comments so far, very surprised to hear the feedback about not needing this (i almost didn't add that option!). So I'm hearing that perhaps putting the molding up there is a little dated or old-fashioned?

On the height of the kitchen cabinets, there will be nice crown molding on top of those cabinets. The ceilings in the kitchen are 9' tall, so we had just planned on putting a few display items up on top, hadn't really thought about making display cabinets, they would be way the heck up there.

Hoping to get some additional votes and feedback, we appreciate it!

Wade & Landa

"On the height of the kitchen cabinets, there will be nice crown molding on top of those cabinets."

Why?

Thanks for the votes so far, please keep them coming! wdcruise - not sure what else we would put on top of unfinished cabinets besides some type of molding....what is your suggestion?

I think if you like the look of molding, then it needs to cover the full height of that little wall. The small strip you’re thinking seems to random on its own. I’d either go no molding or a full molding. Your cabinets are pretty simple m design, so you’d need this full molding to not be too c

... too complicated or the style won’t match.

wdcruise - not sure what else we would put on top of unfinished cabinets: Nothing.

I also would not use molding there. Keep it simple.

As others have said crown does not work in that space. Put your effort into extending the cabinets to the ceiling- it will look a lot more finished.

No crown, no rope lights.

NO NO NO. to both .I aslo agree the cabinets should go to the ceiling.

Excellent feedback everyone, we genuinely appreciate it - hope we can get some additional votes & thoughts on this cove molding!

But I'm still a little surprised about taking the cabinets all the way to the ceiling, we had not considered that. There is 15" above the cabinets as you see them, and would go down to around 10" with the crown we had already bought. Not really sure what we would put up there to fill the space....seems too tall for molding, and too short for an actual cabinet???

The wall cabinets in this IKEA brochure look fine without any mouldings on top:

• https://publications-us-en.ikea.com/ikea_kitchen/page/8-9
• https://publications-us-en.ikea.com/ikea_kitchen/page/16-17
• https://publications-us-en.ikea.com/ikea_kitchen/page/24-25