[vdotmatrix]

Well, There are no solutions except that during the punch list the contractor came and fiddled around with a few jobs and left and said everything was done. I was just at a friends house in dillon Montana and they have 9 ft walls and 42 inch cabinets and it looks right......and i whipped out my tape and measured exactly 18" from countertop to bottom of cabinet.....the only really sucky thing is that we have to lug that 31 pound stand mixer up and down from the cabinets using a ^%^$$#%# stool.

It's sometimes better to be lucky than smart.