Good question - I was going a little looney with this same thought as I was shopping for light fixtures! I've seen photos were everything is all matched and I personally think the matchy-matchy look is too much. My inspiration kitchen in a magazine has all the pulls and faucets the same colour (silver), the island pendant lights in a replated nickel (so it's silver with a bit of a golden tinge), and the kitchen table chandelier in a dark oil-rubbed bronze. This is considering that the kitchen island is dark wood, and the perimeter cabinetry is white, and the kitchen table is dark wood, though. This makes a transition from the white/silver to the dark/bronze. Hope this helps - my advice is to peruse through magazines and books to see what matches your future kitchen!!

The reason I don't want to go with brushed nickel is bc we are going for a combo style of Craftsman and French cottage. I think a darker faucet would look more inline with what we are doing. I will have a SS dishwasher, fridge and microwave.

I've gotten snagged on pulls like that quite a few times, but it depends on what you are wearing whether you are at risk or not. They have a bad habit of catching my pants pockets. The pulls I have are discontinued, but look like this. Mine are brushed nickel, but I think that finish has been discontinued. These from Haefele look nice to me, but they might not be available in your finish. We get pulls from both Haefele and Sugatsune, but we also custom make a lot of our pulls, but not for cabinets. I have had pulls plated to the finish I want, and it is not expensive to do. The pull style you showed is the most common and the least expensive at Home Depot, or at least it was when I bought mine.

I think I will order a sample of each color. But, my feeling with the light fixture and the pantry door, is that a mix of the two metals will be a good thing. If I use a light metal, then everything is light with the exception of the light fixture. That is probably fine as well with the dark floor, and antique pantry door. Sarah made me think more about the OTHER drawers. Ha! Thank you! So, probably a smaller cup pull. I also like and not sure if the metals will match though. This would like this If I used a smaller size of my original cup pull, it would look like this And then I need to think about the four stack to the right and the three stack near the sink Any words of wisdom?