Can you post of picture of what you will see if the door is open?

Personally, if you can see in very well from the kitchen, it would be nice for the cabinets to be the same - just my opinion.

Or, maybe pick up the paint color in your kitchen and do that.

I agree with you about the hickory - it would be too much! :-)

I sure hope there's no "rule". If there is, I missed that day in school (and I went to school for 25 years!)

I do think it's nice when there is at least one element that matches (color, door style, or material, for example), but personally I prefer things not to be too matchy-matchy, especially in two such different purpose rooms. Pictures would help for better feedback.

Good luck!

I think a different cabinet might set it off. It seems more interesting and less like you are using a part of your kitchen as a bathroom. Yikes! You may plan to keep the door closed if it shows a lot from the cooking/eating spaces anyway. Model homes all seem to match cabinets for ease of choice and cost savings perhaps, but IMO, it looks unimaginative. I like the idea of one kind being painted and one wood-toned stain for contrast. Now you get to choose 2 that you like!

My bathroom is just down the hall from our kitchen. In the kitchen we have creamy painted-maple shaker cabinets and in the bathroom natural maple shaker cabinets. Our counters do not match although they are both granite. The paint colours flow and the hardware does match. I don't think it has to match but there should be a flow through some of the elements to tie it together.

My own personal bias here - I actually think that there is something icky about having them match - especially the counters. In the bathroom you do your bathroom stuff and wash your hands and then come back into the kitchen and prepare meals on the same counter that you just finished doing your bathroom stuff on. Yech. My KD, when I explained this to her, looked at me like I was nuts but went along with it. The colours coordinate and the hardware is the same so that it flows together but that's it.

Thank you all for responding! I am glad the concensus is they don't have to match. The bathroom is right off the entrance to the kitchen, but angled, so the sink is not visible beyond the door, so it won't be seen from outside of the bathroom. I think it would be neat to do something coordinated, but not the same. Now I just have to convince the DH we can't have black granite in there! I have not yet begun to fight....

They only need to match if they are in the same room, but that probably wouldn't meet code. =P

Coordinated so there is some flow through the house would be good.

(All hickory might be neat if you set it off with a really elegant rug...)

I guess I flunked that decorating final exam. My bathroom is totally different from my kitchen. I did use my laminate remnant for my counters but it's a completely different edge. My bathroom is two rooms away from the kitchen.

hi calimama..

Well...here's my story. We had leftover granite, so since we were re-doing our powder room as well, we used it for the vanity. The vanity cabinet is a similar stain color as our kitchen cabs, and I also had leftover backsplash tile, so we used that too!!

I am not a matchy-matchy person at all...and I don't think it's required that your bathroom and kitchen match.

But since you are remodeling both, I think it may as well flow nicely if possible.

Mine just so happen to look ...well ...alot alike.

But heck...I wasn't about to let my granite and backsplash marble go to waste!

KA:)

Here is a link that might be useful: my matchy-matchy powder room...haha...

Kitchen Addict, if I had that granite, I would want to use it too!! Your bath inspires me to go with a new granite, I have long admired some of the other ones I have seen on GW, so maybe this will be my chance to use them!

On a separate note, not to start a "towel pig" issue, but...where did you get that cute towel rack???

This thread reminds me of the unrenovated New York tenement apartment we lived in right after we got married. The kitchen counter lifted up on a hinge to reveal the bathtub.

I liked the kitchen cabs so much I used them in the same stain even in the master bath, but the powder room, hall bath have completely different cabs and finishes. The laundry room has the same cabs as kitchen too except painted white.

Each room will have its own personality, but all will flow together nicely. At least it had better or I have an Interior Designer to hunt down and chew on.

Hi calimama..

The towel rack was found ages ago at Bed, Bath and Beyond. They don't seem to have them any longer. I found you something similar online...More searching may bring you better results

KA:)

Here is a link that might be useful: towel stand

i am putting granite in the kithen and 3 bathrooms and pantry, can I have just the kitchen and pantry match and all the 3 bathrooms a different color but they match or should i change all the bathrooms to different color granite

My powder room is sort of off one end of the kitchen at the entrance to the den. It can be seen from the kitchen. I am not using the same cabinets or quartzite as the kitchen. The walls are the same paint color and the floors are the same tile. The vanity will be in the same color family and different top. I do have a coffee bar area in the den off the kitchen that does have the same cabinets and quartzite and hardware as the kitchen. The other bathrooms have similar color cabinets and travertine tops so that is different. My quartzite is Fantasy brown.