Bathroom Fans
When I built our last home, I did a great deal of research on them. The typical bathroom fan is very noisy. I found a series of fans that were powerful and quiet. Not only did I put them in my bathrooms, I put the biggest one in the kitchen. This is my feedback after a few years of use. The bathroom fans are still great (and one of the best decisions I made in addition to the fan purchase was installing timer switches; these fans are so quiet people would accidentally leave them on for hours otherwise).
The kitchen fan worked pretty well, but became noisy over time. Note, the fan was marketed as a bathroom fan, so the designers probably did not visualize the fan sucking up kitchen grease over time. It still is not very noisy, but I'm not sure if I would recommend this line for the kitchen. It has my highest recommendation for its intended use in bathroom.
The brand is Panasonic, they have a host of sizes such as VF-05VQ3, FV-08VQ3, FV-11VQ3, FV-15VQ4. I highly recommend these products.
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Your wife would DEFINITELY recommend the kitchen vent! It was a fabulous kitchen, basically glass from counter-top to the 9-ft ceiling (no top cabinets) and a dropped-down vent would have completely ruined the line of sight. These ceiling vents were amazing!
And now that we have boys approaching the teen-years, I'd also recommend these for walk-in closets. Seriously.