You will need custom 48" cabinets with 6" of molding to reach the ceiling of a 108" home.

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I would never do a48" high cabinet as an upper the doors are wakward looking and too tall with no break. I like 21" between counter and bottom of uppers if you go 36" stacked with a 12" and the 21" space you get just a small trim at the top and still decent pricing.The look is much better and the top cabinets can be glass doors lit for a really nice looking kitchen. BTW I have done many Ikea kitchens in 9' to the ceiling.some with no trim

We had 9 ft ceilings in our last kitchen and in our beach house. The oak cabinets were custom so the crown is smaller. The white cabinets are semi custom hence the larger crown.

We have 9’ ceilings and all the semi-custom cabs came with one upper cab box with 2 doors if we went to the ceiling, as I wanted to. So they look stacked but it’s actually just one box. You end up with a lot of crown and super long cabinet doors if you don’t go with the stacked look.

Kitchen when we purchased our house. I assume everything was fully custom, and we have 9’ ceilings.

Kristin Petro Interiors has some pictures of kitchens she has done with tall single cabinets on top. Some as tall as 60" I think. Most of these are in contemporary kitchens.

I think the problem with going above the 18" standard above counter for the lower edge of the cabinet potentially causes an issue with reach: I designed kitchen, that, with the lower edge of the light rail being the bottom edge of the cabinet, this put the bottom shelf at 24" or 25" and I could reach everything on the bottom shelf, the front of the next shelf, and that was it. Lots of storage above that, but I needed a step stool all the time.

I think the proportions of stacked cabinets is hard to get right.

People love their high ceilings, but then they end up wanting to compensate for upper cabinets "Looking Too Tall". or the lower cabinets (which essentially are stuck at 36 or so for ergonomics and building standards "Looking So Short" or "Squashed". In kitchens, you are stuck with a certain set of parameters, it's not like with a fireplace where you can scale the opening big enough to walk in because that's what looks good with your ceilings. If you want tall ceilings, you have to get used to the things that can be scaled accordingly being scaled accordingly. A tall ceiling is going to mean tall upper cabinets. It's tough with kitchens because of the ergonomics. But often the kitchen ends up looking like a play kitchen stuck in the corner because of the scale of everything else.

cheri127 how tall are your white cabinets? 48"?

here are ours, custom cabinets with 9’ ceilings

I'm on the road so don't have good example photos ready to post but will say that I have 9' ceilings and my uppers go to the ceilings.

it's actually two cabinets a longer then shorter one. I don't know measurements like the others do, but it's probably the same.

Even if you don't use the extra storage space, in my opinion cabinets that don't go to the ceiling look really awful. They look unfinished and skimpy. It's the same concept as hanging your curtains above your window. You're not actually shading any space between the window and the curtain, but you do it because it adds elegance and elongation to the wall.

Will try to send pics but looks like you already have some good examples here.

@myhouseideas21 Yes, they are 48".

suzanne moesle how tall are your upper cabinets? they look so nicely proportioned with the trim.

Carrie W. Are those 36" lower and 18" stacked?

just checked cabinetmaker’s drawings.. they are 52”

@myhouseideas21 They measure 33” on the bottom and 17” on the top. I think the whole cabinet box is 52” (or maybe 50”). There’s trim at the top so it’s hard to tell by measuring and I don’t have the specs handy. They’re semi custom from Kemper (I think the Choice line), so it’s whatever they sell that’s the taller upper box.