It makes the space look very horizontal and monotonous.
42 cabinets 10 ceiling.
66 tall wall cabinets.
Instead you can use a small height crown molding and drop the cabinets 1 1 2 2 inches but you ll sacrifice the backsplash height.
When using 42 inch cabinets in an 8 foot ceiling there will be no room left for a crown molding.
The ceilings in the kitchen and adjoining butler s pantry are 10 feet.
But with the 10 height that would add another 24 approx.
Ceilings and a typical upper cabinet height.
In other words you will have something like a 36 wall cabinet with a 12 18 high smaller cabinet on top of it.
Alternately you could fill the space above a single row of standard cabinets with false cabinet panels that give the appearance but not the function or cost of cabinets running all the way to the ceiling.
We hope that you can still make this work within your project and we appreciate you considering hampton bay.
If the ceiling height of your kitchen is nine or ten feet the cabinetry can be treated one of two ways.
For those with extra high ceilings in the kitchen those ceilings higher than 10 feet the general rule of thumb is not to take the cabinetry to the ceiling.
If you have unusual ceiling heights a custom cabinetry specialist can build cabinets to fit any space which may be the most practical solution if you have 10 foot high ceilings.
We do apologize but we do not currently offer a 42 high cabinet in a 24 depth.
We do have a 24 depth version but it is 36 wide.
Mostly it brings the ceiling down.
In a normal modern house with 8 ceilings i would do a 42 upper cabinet to maximize storage.
Functionally cabinets higher than 10 feet would be extremely difficult to get to and aesthetically cabinets that are too tall can overwhelm the space.
Cabinets and trim go all the way to the ceiling but the cabinets will probably need to be stacked.