Do you have a picture?

I have the surround built around the fridge, so my cabinet above the fridge is deep. I have vertical dividers in 1/2 of the cabinet and use it for baking sheets, platters, etc. I should have done about 2/3 if not the whole space since I apparently have too many of these items. I store bundt pans, etc. in the open side.

I have a large open space above the OTR microwave over where I store my beverage decanter. Now that I'm thinking about it, I may swap the decanter to the open fridge space and swap the baking items.

Think about what you need to store. It is a great space for lesser used items.

similar to this

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If everything else goes to the ceiling I'd want that cabinet to go to the ceiling too, even if the cabinet size isn't the same as the others. It would help to see an image of your planned cabinet elevation (or a floor plan) so we see how the refrigerator fits in with the cabinets around it.

Open display shelves for larger items (I have seen them done with lighting built in too)

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Here is one that has lights, yours is taller but it would be pretty:

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queen: I agree 39" seems high, so it would be good to break it up somehow e.g., stacked cabinets, maybe upper cabinets with glass doors for display, or cabinet + some kind of opening like some of the pictures above.

Cac546,

The photo does help. My uppers will not have glass, but it does appear to be okay visually. I was worried it may look too top-heavy with cabinets on top of cabinets. I simply feel a wine rack is probably a dated look and that was all I could come up with for ideas.

Is this a remodel or a new build? Have you posted your plan in the kitchen forums?

Start with an 84 inch height fridge. Anything else will look like a midget in ten feet, Frankly ten feet in a kitchen simply creates additional expense.

Or build a FLUSH TO CABINET FRONT soffit fascia. then trim, and lower the cabinet space within the ten feet to nine feet, and save a ton of money.

A piece of artwork.

Certainly not wine storage , I would do a cabinet that goes to the ceiling just like the rest it IMO would look better than calling attention to that space with anything else.

Annette Holbrook(z6b-7a)

New build.

Patricia Colwell Consulting,

Are you saying to put one 39" height cabinet, or two cabinets above refrigerator: a 21.5" cabinet with an 18" above it?

Jan Moyer,

Refrigerator is 69" in height. No soffit, and yes, there will be additional expense. I do like the look of cabinets to the ceiling with moulding as opposed to cabinets with empty space on top to collect dust or even cabinets of differing heights. Just what I personally prefer.

While a 84" refrigerator would certainly look proportionately better, ours will be 69". Hopefully, it will not look too dwarfed.