My ceiling slopes every so slightly. I did not notice the 0.75" discrepancy from the countertops. (those cabs did "feel" higher but I pulled the lowers out 2" and so I thought that was the difference) I think it's less noticeable at the counters than at the ceiling. You will probably have different items on your counters and they will not all be the same height and help trick the eye. Also, your cabs are on opposite walls. If you have a gap at the ceiling it would be more noticeable in your case because the cabs are going all the way up. My cabs are right angled to each other with a doorway breaking it up. It took a month or two before I even noticed. I have to look really hard to "see" the difference. I have 15" from the top of my cabinets to the ceiling. Now that my frig is in place it's even less noticeable. The far wall with the farm house sink has the lower cabs. my kitchen is still unfinished sigh...

Why not split the difference? A half inch at bottom and top is less noticeable than 1 inch on either end.

What is the design of your crown molding? Is it a multi-piece crown with a "filler" piece?

Our kitchen ceiling is also uneven and our KD used our crown molding to mask the difference. Ours is a 3-piece crown with a "plain" filler piece in the middle. The top & bottom pieces are the ones w/the detailing and are the same height throughout the kitchen. What differs, is the height of the filler piece...and you cannot tell!

Here is our crown design:

The "Stock-S" piece is the filler piece.

Bostonpam, this is off topic, but your kitchen is lovely!

Thanks eustacem - I wish it was done - sigh - but it's very usable. We're doing a major home renovation plus pool/patio. We converted our 1825 2 family house back into a single family. The push is to get my son back in his bedroom before school starts next week with pool parties every afternoon and evening. I have sooo many color swatches in so many rooms (I think I bought 60 pints of paint) and we're doing all the painting ourselves (I have over 60 six over six windows to prime and add two coats of paint alone!). The goal is to finish by Thanksgiving.

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When our cabs went in, we had a full 1.5" drop from one end of the run down to the other.

Contractor solved it by cutting off some of the bottom.
It's not noticeable at all - no one is down measuring toe kicks.

I'd have them do it that way. If you have tile backslash, you're going to see that difference.

Thanks for the replies!

bostonpam, I agree with eustacem, your kitchen is beautiful. And I can't see the difference in heights from the countertops to the top cabs. Did you have trouble getting your backsplash even?

One of the things I'm worried about is once the backsplash comes around the corner to the window, it'll be different heights on either side. I'm thinking beadboard backsplash, so it'll have a vertical line, but it'll still have a horizontal trim piece at the top.

dianlo, interesting idea. I don't think I have a straight wall, floor or ceiling in my house, so just making the difference smaller but not perfect might do the trick. My GC and DH might think I've moved to a new level of crazy to want to move the cabinets 1/2" though! :)

buehl, I've seen your posts with your 3 piece crown molding before and I think it's brilliant! I think it might be a little tougher since we only have 2-1/2" crown to work with, the filler piece might be in danger of disappearing all together, but I know it'll come in handy with our crazy ceiling!

marcydc, our GC had quite a time getting our base cabs level. I think we could nickname our kitchen Shims R Us!

Our back splash started with a full tile on the bottom and then went up from there. The difference in height is under the upper cabinet but it's not noticeable since the two are not connected (doorway separating them). Also they used a full tile to wrap around the one cabinet. Looking at this close it does look a bit odd but I never noticed it until now. there is so much going on in the kitchen that this is not picked up.

My BIL carpenter would say the difference should be accounted for at the ceiling, not at eye level.