Advice appreciated! And thanks for the link, sum5463! The video on that page helps clarify, too, though that fridge is mostly hidden on the sides. (Oh, if only I were a blogger! I too would make a video where I was over-the-moon about my new free appliances!) Re: the cabinet color. I think the Benj. Moore "decorators white" is very slightly green, so there may well be a danger of dinginess against the "white ice." At least in sample size the paint looked smashing with countertop and backsplash materials, which are in fact being installed this coming week (huzzah!) The underside of the top cabinets is also being painted this week, before the undercabinet lighting goes in, but the cabinet faces won't be painted for a while yet, since the painter likes to be last. So I don't know if at this point I can change my mind about which white I want on the cabinet faces. Maybe I will just have to paint a cabinet door and trek to the nearest big city in search of a real live white ice appliance. I also have to think about whether the white ice "ipod" style cues will fit. Maybe -- the cabinets are simple in style, and my new breakfast-area light fixture will be pretty modern. It's such a huge change from the brown early 80s that it's hard to visualize, and I'm lousy at visualizing to begin with. Here follows a bit of rambling re: model choice. This model fits under the existing cabinets; other counterdepth models I have looked at tend to be a little too tall. Capacity is not an issue for me; in fact I have so much extra space in my current 18cf fridge that I store about a dozen large bottles of nonperishables like fizzy water -- because a fuller fridge is more efficient than a mostly empty one. Which reminds, me, some of those bottles have been in there more than a year. I probably should move them around! :) I thought about a 24"/apartment-size one as more suited to my own habits. I cook when I'm home, but I travel a lot, so I don't keep huge amounts of fresh food on hand. But I have a 36" x 69" space to fill. A smaller fridge, even the 28" x 65" one that's there now, looks awkward. And I'd have to buy a fullsize one anyway if I were selling the house. I want the side-by-side because I use the freezer mostly for single-serving leftovers; having those on shelves in plain sight, so that I can see at a glance what's there, is a bigger priority for me than storing large fresh or frozen things: there has never been an occasion when I wanted to put a pizza box or a sheet cake in my fridge. So I have really thought about usefulness; it's just that I use my fridge differently than people who find the french-door style useful.

Just be aware, Uba Tuba is green, not black. It's really dark, but it's green. I think the stainless fridge will look fine with the black oven if it works with your overall design scheme. A fridge stands there by itself, and is tall and wide. It has a different presence than an oven, so it's easy to make it a different color. Which is probably why you thought of it!

It's hard to say w/out seeing the items. Will the vent appear to be an accessory of the oven? If so, I'd say black might be better. But, if you have a SS backsplash and the SS vent in had, it would probably look find to have the vent in SS too. Frankly, if almond looks plastic, the black will probably look plastic too. If it were me, I'd probably not sweat what could be "best" at this point and would go for getting it installed. You're not really "settling" since it is what you ordered initially. I think may be suffering from what many on GW get; some sort of "overthink fever"! Good luck!

Without seeing the space and the info given, I think you can do that. All the appliances coordinate well enough in my opinion and wouldn't bother me if it was my home (...and I am very picky).