CedarLaneBungalow wrote:Thanks everyone! Nicholas, I'm not sure what your kitchen is like but ours really could have used the taller cabinets so instead of replacing upper cabinets to give them height, I added a 1x4, chair rail molding and a large crown to the top. You may not notice much of a difference in the photos but when you are in the room it really transformed the space with the cabinets being taller. It was also a very inexpensive! My shelves are just unpainted wooden brackets from home depot and unfinished oak stair treads!
Showed my wife the pics and agreed it was a nice redo.
The before and after pics of our small kitchen are in my brag book, page 2.
If you look you can see that ours is about the same height as yours, with the same spacing above, but have no character at all, crown molding will be easily attached. We do have a wood ceiling, dark slate flooring, as well as faux granite looking formica countertops, can't do anything about that now, but white cabinets might help and paint is cheap.