Home DIY

I will not be doing the latter in the near future.

To be honest most of the work involved with fitting kitchens is relatively unskilled (not that your other half is going to like me telling you this). The skill comes with the finishing things like fitting a worktop or scribing decor panels to walls.

This is on my list of requirements - What's the point of cabinets that stop 50 cm from the ceiling? If I wanted to gather greasy dust, I'd just use the traps from the extractor hood.

I'm with you this but to be honest you don't need to go down the full custom route to achieve this. Attached is an example of a benchmarx kitchen I adapted a while ago to resolve this issue. The cupboards at the top of the wall units were formed from decor panels and doors were cut down and re-edge banded to make the fronts. Kitchen suppliers will not deviate from their standard sizes as it will screw up their production lines and margins.

That's how I do it. I've never met you IRL but you seem to be fairly smart give it a little bit of thought and I'm sure you can come up with something great.