When using 42 inch cabinets in an 8 foot ceiling there will be no room left for a crown molding.
42 inch wall cabinets 8 foot ceiling.
If you select a smaller profile crown molding there will be a small amount of space above the cabinets.
Use a level longer than 30.
Otherwise use 36 high cabinets.
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The size molding is up to you.
You will need to do this for the entire wall s of cabinets.
In other words say a 36 wide cabinet 13 deep 18 for a door 31 deep from the wall.
This is by far the safest choice when designing around an 8 ft ceiling.
First 36 high wall cabinets should be used with stacked crown molding for all doorstyle except slab slabs.
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.
If the kitchen has a 9 foot ceiling the largest standard size wall cabinets 42 inches high are used.
As carolyn suggested you can drop the ceiling to 9 feet in the kitchen or you can simply add a one foot soffit around the perimeter of the kitchen to make the ceiling 9 feet for the cabinets.
If you have 8 foot tall ceilings and want cabinets that run to the ceiling 42 inch tall wall cabinets will fit perfectly.
96 inch high ceilings are a foot too short to stack cabinetry.
But homes are now being built with standard 9 or 10 foot ceilings on the first floor and ceilings at 8 or 9 feet tall on the second floor.
Using 36 tall upper cabinets.
If the mark on the wall is higher than the ceiling at the 31 mark your door will bind on the ceiling therefore the cabinets need to be lowered more.
I noticed various cabinet manufactures only offer 30 and 42 inch wall cabinets and not 36.
If you have 9 foot tall ceilings you can choose to fill the available 54 inches of wall space with one row of 36 inch tall cabinets with a row of 18 inch cabinets above them.
On slabs 39 high wall cabinets could be used with a single filler reaching the ceiling if that custom hieght is available.
0 foot ceilings are definitely the way to go.
I ve been in 9 foot ceiling houses and they do not give the same graciousness as 10 feet.
The cabinets won t go all the way to the ceiling which gives you the chance to add crown molding.
A 42 inch cabinet would touch the top of an 8 foot 96 inch ceiling or might not fit at all if you have soffits crown molding or other ceiling trim installed.