Don't ever be sorry to have 10 foot ceilings! High ceilings are beautiful.
Our ceilings are almost 12 feet high (very old house, 1894) and I didn't like the way the cabinets that were here when we moved in stopped SO FAR from the ceiling. It was cost prohibitive to go all the way to the ceiling, but we put in a coffered ceiling to meet the tops of the cabinets, which have large crowns.
Our kitchen is not huge, but I don't feel the tall cabinets are overwhelming. It looks very grand, to me, in person. But I also think the kitchens with shorter cabinets look really great. Maybe I wouldn't have spent so much on my tall cabinets if I had seen their pictures first! The cabinets when we moved in had at least 4 feet of space, and it just looked weird.
Here is a link that might be useful: High ceiling cabinets
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great idea!
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