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#6 ·
Number 2 here too. I get the idea to follow the arch of the ceiling, but those two uppers look like someone with buck teeth.

Are you having a debate with a designer?

- Rich
Just conversing with the contractor. Looking at different ideas.
Contractor suggested to stagger them, (Kitchen 1)
to get some height. Only place to really do that was over the stove,as shown.
Kitchen 2 was just another idea. This is low stress job, easy going client doesn't really care one way or the other.

Here are a couple more views. (The beauty of Sketchup)

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I am 2 as well. Want to know how high the glass cabinets are. Virtually no good if you need a ladder to get access. If they are real high and say you put decorative stuff up there , how will you clean the stuff that you put in the cabinets?

We took the glass out (flat panels in) of the high cabinets, for the reason of cleaning what you put up there. We did not want to see the stuff.
 
#14 ·
I think your wife did you a favor and made your build a lot easier, although the #2 design might be more esthetically pleasing the design is not too practical, all of the upper compartments are not very functional unless your family has very tall people that use the kitchen. I've built cabinets like that in my kitchen and found out the only things you can store that high are items you hardly ever use, plus with glass doors you want only attractive items to be stored there.
 
#16 ·
Thanks for all the feedback.

A-1, The design is 100% for esthetics. (I should have mentioned) She will probably never even put anything in them. We will use an obscure glass.
The client is 87 years old and will NEVER use either one.

At most, she will use the bottom shelf of the wall cabinets. Planing on having the wall cabinets 15" above the countertop. That's the height where her existing cabinets are now.

Tony, yes that's the problem. They want to keep the range where it is now, so it leaves kind of an awkward deal.
That's what I didn't like about it as well.

controlfreak, so you're saying you like #1 ? lol
 
#17 ·
Nodding head yes. In 40 years of marriage I have learned to never tell a woman what she wants in a kitchen. For the record, I have I mean she has a second full set of cabinets that extend up to the 10' ceiling. This is where bad kitchen gadgets and appliances we were gifted go to die. The space works for us. Two years ago we moved the kitchen to a different room. When complete we just carried the dishes from the old kitchen to the new one prior to old kitchen getting demoed. It beats the old microwave and coffee pot in the bedroom or hall.
 
#18 ·
I'd save some money and remove the top row entirely. Maybe hang an elk head up there instead. ;-)
 
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