I’m 4’10". All of our cabinets go all the way to the ceiling — if I’m going to need a ladder to reach anything, they might as well!
And Scaeva built me a shelf that sits above the kitchen windows (with solid supports attached to the solid window frames) where sits all our Really Big Pots — wok, salad spinner, 16 and 20 quart stockpots, and my pressure canner (named the Queen Mary). The kitchen ladder is called a Skinny Mini; folds very flat so it slides between the stove and the fridge, and has a loop at the top to grip while you stand on the top step.
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