Kitchen Cabinet Height with 10 foot ceilings, help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we have 10 foot ceilings and take the cabinets to the ceiling looks great just requires more cabinets on top

But you'll never use those upper cabinets. They're ridiculous

When we had this setup in our small rowhouse kitchen, top cabinets held Christmas stuff, cake pans we didn't use as much, etc..

[Anonymous]

If you leave room up top, leave enough room. Nothing looks more stupid than cabinets that are 1-6 inches from the ceiling. Also, light the top cabinets so there are no shadows. Subtle lighting.

[Anonymous]

If you go to the ceiling, you really should factor scale of each set of cabinet doors. Wider bays with wider doors are frequently more appropriate in this situation. A row of multiple tall, slender doors can make an expansive space look busy. Proportionately sized doors will look very nice.

You can have glass-paneled doors with lit interiors on the upper tier and store decorative, colorful items, or you can store infrequently used items behind a solid panel.

If you don't want to go 10' high, you can always soffit down at the cabinet line or you could do a modified coffer at the perimeter to take up some of the visual space. Don't get into coffered grids in the kitchen as it can often look busy as the upper cabinets, fridge cabinet and full-height pantry cabinets create a lot of planar variations and alignment issues... and a poorly-considered layout can look pretty funky.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we have 10 foot ceilings and take the cabinets to the ceiling looks great just requires more cabinets on top

But you'll never use those upper cabinets. They're ridiculous

We'd use them. It'd just be for things not used very often, not for daily/weekly things. Think: pie dishes, Christmas mugs, extra plates, vases, serving bowls and platters. I could name loads of thing I'd use. I have a few cabinets that tricky to access and they are full of "low use" items. And yes, we'd get a sturdy step stool. I guess if you are over 70 I might stop, but most healthy people in their 60s could still use a step stool.

This is exactly how we use ours and it’s a nice spot

[Anonymous]

We have cabinets to the ceiling and I use top boxes for my vintage teapot collection.

[Anonymous]

Speaking as someone with high ceilings and a soffit above the cabinets, I agree that it looks better with cabinetry all the way to the ceiling. I think it looks nice when people put in glass front cabinets on top with lighting inside and put one piece of decorative glassware/pottery/ceramics inside each door.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Speaking as someone with high ceilings and a soffit above the cabinets, I agree that it looks better with cabinetry all the way to the ceiling. I think it looks nice when people put in glass front cabinets on top with lighting inside and put one piece of decorative glassware/pottery/ceramics inside each door.







I like this. I have 10 foot ceilings with cabinets that go all of the way up. I put things in the top cabinets when we moved in 5 years ago and haven’t touched them since. I’ve forgotten what’s up there.

[Anonymous]

"Gee, I have too much storage, I'd like less so let's get rid of some cabinet space," said no person ever. Have them go to the top and put the items you don't use all the time, from a fondue set to an ice bucket, etc. in them. Or go the decorative route, but definitely have them go all the way to the ceiling

[Anonymous]

I am not a fan of the glass-cabinet on top look. It looks dated to me already, like the fake-ivy look of the 90s. Or the wooden roosters people used to put up there.

It's one thing to build extra cabinets to display your vintage tea kettle collection, but to start a collection just so you have something to fill the extra cabinets seems silly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Speaking as someone with high ceilings and a soffit above the cabinets, I agree that it looks better with cabinetry all the way to the ceiling. I think it looks nice when people put in glass front cabinets on top with lighting inside and put one piece of decorative glassware/pottery/ceramics inside each door.

Strong pass. This looks weird. Like a bunch of portholes up top

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Speaking as someone with high ceilings and a soffit above the cabinets, I agree that it looks better with cabinetry all the way to the ceiling. I think it looks nice when people put in glass front cabinets on top with lighting inside and put one piece of decorative glassware/pottery/ceramics inside each door.

Strong pass. This looks weird. Like a bunch of portholes up top

I think it's a matter of proportion: the last picture looks the best because the upper-lower split hews closer to the golden ratio which is roughly 1/3:2/3

[Anonymous]

I have a gap because I bought the house that way, and one thing I do recommend is putting parchment paper or newspaper up there. I only bother to clean up there every several years tbh, but the paper makes it easier.

[Anonymous]

If you have the glass cabinets on top and you’re struggling to display things in them, try putting the objects on little stilts (like upside down cups).

[Anonymous]

Not having the cabinets go all the way up looks cheap. That may be fine if you have a starter home type value, but if you’re in a $1mil+ home get custom cabinets that g on all the way up. Don’t cheap out…. Your future self will thank you when you go to sell

[Anonymous]

It's fine to have empty cabinets, folks.