Here is one link with pics; don't know if you've seen it. The first pics have chrome and orb, the last 2 are nickel and orb. Mine is the last one and the fixtures are Moen ShowHouse brushed nickel. I also have Hansgrohe and Grohe brushed nickel (and some off brand tub spout in the shower) and once installed I can't see a whit of difference between them. Here is a link that might be useful: Mixing finishes in bath

It does not need to match. But that's my opinion. Some folk are more sensitive to matchy-match finishes than others. If you really feel compelled that you need to have it all match for your own satisfaction, then have at it. But if you're matching it because you think others may think your design choices odd...I encourage you to design for yourself. Not others. More opinion: Think of things being in groupings. The shower. The vanity above the countertop (faucet, etc). The vanity below the countertop (door/drawer knobs and pulls). And so on. Sometimes everything all matchy-match is just wonderful. Sometimes it's overwhelming or monotonous. Too much of the same. Too much variety can look haphazard and disconcerting to the eye. There's no flow. But there's a sweet spot in between, I think all can be well as long as things somehow relate to one another. I always go along the lines of style being one thing, color another, and finish a third. Again, it's usually good to keep them some of those three things related as you go from one grouping to the next. A contemporary "some thing" might not look right next to a traditional "other thing", especially if one was a patina'd ORB and the other was polished chrome. All three things are different. My master bathroom has to be the least matching of any I've seen. My wife picked out what she wanted, but we grouped things together. She chose ORB sconces, so I painted the mirror in between the sconces to match the color of the ORB. I felt having the mirror the same color as the sconces sort of added visual mass to that grouping. Without the ORB-colored mirror, the sconces might have looked lonely out there on their own. That's one grouping. We have a polished nickel faucet on top of the countertop. However, below the countertop, the knobs and hinges are brushed pewter. While different, they relate as they're in the same color family and similar in style. My wife's countertop make-up mirror? Polished chrome. In the shower? Polished Chrome. All by itself, its own grouping. All that non-matching stuff, it may sound absolutely gawd-awful, and some might think it is. But my wife is happy with how it looks, and if she's happy, I am too. One thing I will say is that in the design and construction phase, you fret over every detail. But after 6 months you'll probably grow blind to the things that kept you awake at night with worry.

You'll probably get pictures because I've seen plenty mixed metals in this forum but till then, yes, you can mix them. That's what everyone keeps telling me. It's hard for me to accept this...I'm too structured (lol) My faucets are brushed nickel and my hardware on the vanity is orb. The hardware on the light painted surfaces will be brushed nickel. I almost chose to go with a orb light fixture and would have but there will be a total of 3 light fixtures in the bathroom and the other two are bn so I decided to keep all the lighting the same color, bn. A couple of theories given to me in this "anything goes society"...1) Light on light and 2) light (metals) at the top and dark as you go down. Don't know how spot on this is, I'm just reporting what I've been told. Monica

We did that too - all our knobs and door handles are ORB as well as light fixtures. The appliances are white and sink is SS. Our faucet is Chrome/Ikea. Initially the faucet was only supposed to be temporary until I found something better/pull out, but it's grown on me and I'm not used to having a pull out and for $200 more, I just don't care anymore so it stays. I considered switching it this week to use the kitchen faucet for the new laundry tub.