Good morning everyone,
First of all, I would like to thank you for taking time to read and answer my questions.
I have a 10 foot ceiling, and I also have a 1 feet kitchen suffit which should attach to the top of my kitchen wall cabinets. I plan to install 42-inch cabinet. Here's the problem. The 42-inch cabinet is actually 39 1/2 inches tall only.
Here's my questions
1) Measuring from ground level of kitchen, what is the recommended height or range of height that the bottom of the wall cabinet must be at ? This does not count the 2 1/2 height mounting stripes that I am putting on at the bottom of wall cabinet which will hide my under cabinet lightings and wires.2) Since I am installing under cabinet lightings with the 2 1/2 height mounting stripes to hide them, what should the range (or minimum and maximum) of the distance between my granite counter top and the mounting stripes ? I understand typically people will use 18 inches as the distance between the counter top and the base of cabinets, but this additional mounting stripes is throwing off the standard equation. If I continue to use just 18 inches, then that will leave me only 15 1/2 inches of working space between the stripes and counter top.
3) I am adding a 2 1/2 inches of mounting stripes to fill the gap between the top of my wall cabinets and my kitchen suffit. Is that all right or a standard practice ? Or you will recommend me to lift my wall cabinets higher such that I have a larger working space between counter top and base of wall cabinets (distance of 21 inches) ? However, in this later case, I think my wall cabinet will be too high, isn't it ?Thanks again for your time! Shawn