I have just the opposite. We have Cherry perimeter and a creamy island. We have Giallo Napoleon granite.

Marybeth= can you show me pics from far away in your kitchen (so i can see the granite in your kitchen full view?) I love your cabinet choices!! Are you happy with the creamy white painted? I heard the mitor??spelling- can come apart on the seams-- did you have any of that?

I will post the link below for my recently finished kitchen. We chose Santa Cecelia Light (which is a completely different stone than regular SC) and it varies like crazy. But when you find some good slabs, OHMYGOSH, they are GORGEOUS!

I think it would look GREAT with the colors you have chosen. Lots of photos of it, and more info in my thread.

Here is a link that might be useful: My finished kitchen (creamy white cabinets)

I love them so far! Excuse mess We are getting ready to paint. As you can see I have a very small space.

I am doing Cherry perimeter cabinets and a creamy white island with a van dyke brown highlight. I just looked at granite the other day and I found one called aleutian. I may pair that with soapstone. I do love Marybeths granite and am going to see what a slab of that looks like.

ohhh Marybeth you have me tingling with envy ! beautiful

My DH wants to do Tile floor b/c he is afraid of scratches from moving the kitchen table chairs back and forth--- are you conserned? I love the wood floor!

Buddyrose has cream cabinets matched up with (my favourite, as I have it too - haha!) Crema Bordeaux - perhaps do a search on this forum for photos? this granite has a bit of everything, including some light burgundy/reds, which might go well with your two cabinet choices.

OT - Marybeth, have you decided re backsplash? I remember your post from a little while back and the photos of your beautiful kitchen reminded me that you had been hunting around.

Hi, suzienj - I think I remembered that we are doing the same scheme. Also about to look for granite now, too - some I've seen and liked on this forum were Santa Cecelia, New Venetian Gold, Typhoon Bordeaux, Madura Gold. I've also seen some of the darker granites that looked great and tied the island and the perimeter cabinets together beautifully. One way to see what each look like is to do a google images search (often you'll be brought right back to the GW forum). BTW, what is the granite sample you have there?

Hope you don't mind a quick and unrelated Q - what is the paint you are considering there? It looks great with your choices. Also, what are you doing for ceiling and paint trim with the glazed white cabinets? I'm leaning to doing white trim and ceilings but I'm just not sure just how white to go. Any thoughts? Thanks!

Eastcoastmom--- Hi there! I remember you!! Ok granite in the pic is Imperial Gold (We are afraid it might be too yellow- so looking at other options)..
Paint- We are doing SW Blonde in foyer and other adjascent rooms (but we have not nailed down the paint in the kitchen) i want to figure out the granite and the floors first. I might do blonde or i might do a simple white/beige to tie in our high ceilings to the cabinet (our ceilings are 10 feet and cabinets are 8 feet so i hate so much space above) so i'm thinking i might not want to draw too much attn. to that.
We are going with oil rubbed bronze fixtures.

What floor did you pick? Wood or Tile? Thanks!

suzienj, - Thank you, it is QS White oak I love it! We have felt chair pads on everything so far no problems. It was tiled when we moved in and I was tired of it I also wanted to join the two rooms, kitchen opens into our family room. It is so much nicer to walk on than my tile was. Of course I have a bad habit of walking around barefoot. I have never had hardwood and went back and forth on laminate vs hardwood, site finished vs pre finished or engineered. We went with site finished and am so glad we did.

Chloe's Mom I love your granite and TB as well. They were both a little out of my price range. I am really stuck on a backsplash thats why I haven't posted in a while. Any suggestions?

Marybeth - No, no useful suggestions - I think that my skills are relatively limited on such things as I love too many tiles - far too many options. I saw a photo, from a link on this forum, of a glass? mother of pearl? tiled exterior of a clawfoot tub and had to calm myself down. It isn't just material choice (and combination thereof), but also patterns within the materials - arrrgh! Dizzying!

suzienj - I really like SW Blonde. I have the same dilemma as you with the height of the cabinets not able to go all the way up (in my case because the height of the ceiling changes), so I know exactly what you are saying.

Finally decided to go with wood floors and will most likely end up restaining the wood floors throughout the rest of the house, too. It was a tough choice, but I really wanted the wood in the adjoining family room. Now I just have to decide on the stain color. Decisions!

We are going with Caledonia Dark for our creamy perimeter cabs and black Island. It will be a few weeks before I'll be ready to post pics though. I think there are so many different ways you can go with cream cabinets, the sky's the limit! It's all personal preference and budget.

We have Gallo Ornmamental. Sorry for the horrible photo's. The last one shows the granite next to the creamy white cabinet door and an actual piece of white material. Someone was asking for this comparison some time back so I took the photo to show them. Hope these help.

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I have off white cabinets with a glaze on the perimeter, and a natural cherry island, and butler's pantry. We used Golden Queen on the island, and something called Bronze Macchiato on the perimeter. It is a dark stone with black, brown and silver in it. I've posted a bunch of pictures below, some from before we finished, that have better pictures of the granite:

Jeannie i love that golden queen!!! Beautiful- ty for sharing

I'm starting the same project... same colors but just in the beginning stages. A KD suggested doing a a darker color granite on the "light"cabinets and a darker color on the cherry island in order to make it "pop". Some of the granite colors I thought looked nice were a "butterfly" color is simple and usually a level 1 price and does the trick. The doors you picked look really nice - what manufacturer?

Skeetie- Good luck!! Cabinets are Shiloh....

Wow, that granite on the island is beautiful - reminds me of fabulous rivers of caramel. Now I'm hungry!

skeetie219, This kitchen from the finished blog looks similar to what you are describing - very pretty:
http://finishedkitchens.blogspot.com/2005/06/artteachernjs-kitchen.html

I've looked at a couple of granite yards this week. I liked Golden Beach, Giallo Ornamentale, Delicatus, Madura Gold, Lapidus, Taupe, Also gorgeous was a combo of Antique Brown on the perimeter (looks almost black) and danby marble on the island - stunning! I didn't see any nice versions of Santa Cecelia or New Venetian Gold, which although very common would also work well - have seen much nicer in photos here on GW than in person. My problem is that I need a fairly large slab for the island - not so easy to find them!

What about using an engineered stone like Caesarstone or Cambria - I personally like a less busy stone in a traditional kitchen

Hi-

I am in the same situation, although my cabinets are more of a creamy (almost yellow) with glaze. I have been looking at Delicatus and Ivory Gold-
I was also considering manufactued- has anyone used caesarstone?

I don't have my granite yet, but I have cream cabinets with a very subtle mocha glaze and I will use either Santa Cecilia or Giallo Ornamental.

May now conside Giallo Napolean...that's gorgeous marybeth1.

suzienj, I just saw a really beautiful version of sienna bordeaux with these colors, so adding it to the list for you.

I know what you mean. You can see a slab, put them together with cabinets samples and it all seems fine, but still not really be able to visualize the big picture in terms of pattern and contrast within the space. What's worse is that different lots of the same stone can differ to the point where they don't look like the same thing at all. One stone I'm looking at can either look pink and orange or more like a coffee and cream with dark brown running through!

You're right - torture!

eastcoastmom-thanks for the link

I have creamy white cabinets with Marron Cohiba or Antique Brown granite. The granite was installed first, so the only pics I have of the countertops right now are on top of my old blue cabinets. They have since been painted white, we are in the process of putting the kitchen back together and getting the backsplash in. so no pics for now.....but soon.