I love the way your garden looks, especially in photo 2, but if you want some changes, then go for it. I can't guarantee all of these can take your full sun, but they are deer-resistant and I think bunny resistant. We have some rabbits in the neighborhood--I see them all the time--but pretty much all the damage I get is obviously from the deer. White swan coneflower--I really like it, I'm wondering why you aren't sure it'll look great? I bet it will. Tall, yellow, fairly big blooms: Heliopsis, summer sun (golden yellow double) or lemon queen (lemon yellow, very tall) or others. There are also a couple of short ones. Summer sun is 3.5 ft for me. Coreopsis grandiflora, a tall version like Tetra Giants (I'm not sure which mine is): mine has blooms that are about 1.25", golden yellow, gets 3-4' tall. I've heard the yellow species echinacea, I think it's Echinacea paradoxa, is a tough plant, not like the hybrids made from it. Is there a white monarda that is tall enough? If not, it may stretch to compete with neighboring plants just fine, I think mine do stretch in fruitless hopes of getting more sun. Agastache: there are a couple of yellows, one is hardy only to zone 6 or 7, one is hardy up here. I just got the zone 5 one this year, A. nepetoides, so I may have seeds in the fall. It grows to 7 feet and photos of the blooms look light yellow to white. There is also agastache golden jubilee, which has chartreuse foliage to lighten the scene. The deer almost never touch my shastas. I've had shastas for 4 years, and the only chewing was last year on my supposed crazy daisy seedlings. They left them, and all the others, alone this year. They leave my eryngium completely alone. My deer love to eat mums, and asters, and maximilian sunflower, just about anything that blooms in the fall--except goldenrod. I think they leave that completely alone. Montauk daisy is nibbled early but usually left alone in fall. My deer leave the "red" Centranthus ruber alone, as well as Culver Root. I haven't grown Ironweed yet. Verbena hastata also has branchlets and violet flowers, and is deer-resistant here. My mom's red Centranthus in almost all-day sun is upright, although a bit floppy. Mine, in ok sun, was totally floppy and I gave it away. I don't give my Culver's Root any extra water, maybe I should. It does fine, but is not spreading. Did you direct-sow the cleome? I had no luck with cleome the first couple of times. When I dumped a lot of fresh seed straight into the garden in autumn, I finally got sprouts in spring.

We have stacked cabinets with small glass doors on the top, and I love them. We have 9' ceilings with cabinets that are 32" solid doors and 18" glass doors, topped with 4" of flat crown---perfect for our space, and not at all overwhelming for a small kitchen. (In fact, I think they make it look less small because in an odd way, the cabinets blend into the wall rather than feeling like they're projecting from it.) Notably, I can't reach the top cabinets so it does require a stepstool, but that was expected. We did custom cabinets which made it much more affordable than it would have been to do this with stock cabinets---ours are simple boxes with frames and doors dividing them, rather than each being individual cabinets. They're very solid, though we did go with plywood boxes which may have helped (since that's lighter than particle board/MDF). Our old cabinets were 70 years old and were wood versions the same height, and did not seem warped---doors still closed, etc. We do have magnetic clasps but that's to hold the inset doors closed---not sure how this would help with warping?

I don't have a good finished picture, but mine are more like the Sunset ones and reverse of Pretty Kitty's gorgeous kitchen (wood doors below and glass above on the perimeter except over the ovens -- made that deep storage rather than display), but we have a strip of trim between the cabinets that is similar to our light rail so there is no seam or need for an additional panel on the sides. On our tall wall (pantry and fridge), we have solid doors all the way up. My crown appears to be a little taller than the Sunset house. I have 2 straigh walls for the perimeter and the tall wall in a different finish -- I think that helps break it up. My "fourth wall" is completely open and there is a door or opening at every corner. The kitchen also opens ito a breakfast and family room with 14 foot vaulted ceilings. The kitchen is short by comparison, so that may help it not feel overwhelming. I think the 11 and 12 foot kitchens I saw tended to have the solid doors above and more glass below. That way, they kind of fade into the wall overhead. That would be more like Pretty Kitty's kitchen.

I love the look of your kitchen, babs, I think the open space above is a great look. Unless you have money to burn AND a too-large kitchen, I vote for 8 to 8.5 ft of cabinets with cove lighting above. What does cove lighting do? It gives soft indirect light which is always more flattering than high wattage central bulbs. Plus for smaller kitchens it highlights the openness of your ceilings and turns dark, murky shadows above the cabinets into a pleasant accent feature. I love all your stacked/stacked look pics above, guys, especially with the backlit top row. But worth the extra money over cove lighting? Probably not unless you have an unlimited budget or you've REALLY REALLY gotta have it. Then you probably should get it. :) Davif