Geeze, I hope not!

Here's one - I'm sure others have better ones.
http://www.burrowscabinets.com/Burrows_Doors.htm

I think it depends on where you are in the country. In California where you are, in higher end tract houses (which is what I know) I usually see them all match. If you do an upgrade to maple, for instance, it upgrades all the cabinets to maple. In Texas, not true. Common in Austin new houses is white cabinets in baths, and kitchen cabinets match other cabinets.

The matchey-matchey thing will always be associated with tract type housing where the economies of scale encourage sameness.

I'm not even using the same doors throughout the kitchen, let alone the whole house...

I agree that having all the cabinetry matching could easily look like someone got a bulk buy.

That said, I have old, beautiful veneered doors in my house, and I think it would look neat if all the kitchen and bathroom doors looked like them.

I would not do matchy matchy for cabinet doors. Like the others I think tract house or house made to be rented or sale ... unless the doors have something special about them. Our kitchen cabinet doors - both color and style are different from those in the bathrooms. That said though all bedroom and bathroom doors are all the same. The closet doors are all wood raised panel doors but the style depends on the room.

YOu can mix and match in the same room. There is no "rule" that says you have to have it the same, not even the same wood. You see it done with furniture all the time, modern is mixed with antique. Do what YOU like, its your home.
Different spaces can be decorated differently.

Enjoy putting YOUR touch on YOUR home

Thanks everyone. Though it would have been simpler (much) to have chosen a "theme" and followed it throughout the house, I did not. I hope my home won't end up looking schizophrenic!

My kitchen is quite "country," with Shaker-style pine cabinets in a medium stain. The powder room has a freestanding vanity with built-in countertop and sink and has more of a traditional, furniture-style design. The kids' bath has beveled doors (I still don't know what you call the detail on the cabinet) that are painted white. The guest room bath has a pedestal sink--no cabinets at all. The master has more of a "spa" like feel to it, so I went with a very elaborate, detailed, elegant "beveled" cabinet. They will be stained a deep mahogany brown. Oh, and the laundry room has cheapo Home Depot stock white cabinets. No matchey matchey in my house! I think my builder thought I was nuts, but each room sort of developed a personality as we moved along the design process.

FYI our construction is a MAJOR remodel in which we tore the existing house down to the studs, added a second story, and expanded and reconfigured virtually all existing dowstairs rooms. The end result will basically be a custom home in a high-end community, so we definitely did not want a "track home" feel.

Heck, I'm trying to decide if my moulding has to match from one room to the next. I can't match what I have -- found that out when we redid the bath upstairs. I like something else better anyway, so rather than an obvious they-tried-to-match-but-not-quite thing, I had all the bedroom mouldings redone to match the bath.

Downstairs, though, the rooms are much more open to each other. I don't dislike my moulding, per se, but I will have issues, yet I really don't want to pay to have the entire downstairs redone. (Which is a classic "well while we're at it", and I'm really, really good at that phrase. LOL!)

I don't think the molding needs to match, either.

You don't want to have really glaring differences in styles (i.e, sleek and small in some rooms; big and ornate in others), esp. not in rooms close to each other (in which case the viewer's mind might remember), or in rooms which can be seen from one another.

I also think big differences in molding are more easily "forgiven" (by the viewer) when the "break" in style if between public rooms (living & dining--showier) and private rooms (bedrooms--simpler or perhaps more personal)

ESPECIALLY if people are going upstairs, they're not going to expect the styles to be the same; and unless the moldings are glaringly different, or very in-your-face, they won't notice.

heck, most moldings aren't noticed at all--unless they're messy, or two mismatched styles are butting up against each other.

Yes.. Most custom homes have custom cabinets installed.. If custom cabinets are being used, by all means try to match them.. I buy and sell homes in excess of $500,000.00.

And I do look at same cabinet patterns..

Alot of builders put custom cabinets in the kitchen and then cheap cabinets in the bathroom..

Rememember, if they like the kitchen, they will like the bathroom too..

I see no reason why they should match.

Makes about as much sense as having 5 identical navy blue suits... and nothing else.

Can't even imagine that what would be appropriate in the kitchen would be appropriate in the bathroom. If you think of cabinetry as furniture/casegoods, then why would you use the same pieces in every room? People don't even match styles in dining furniture anymore--maybe a French table with English chairs, if it all works.

Can't even imagine that what would be appropriate in the kitchen would be NECESSARILY appropriate in the bathroom.

I totally agree with no matchy/matchy. Actually the only place I have actually seen the exact cabs in Kit, bathrooms, laundry etc is in a development of all the same smaller homes.

I have the same toilet in the kitchen as I do in the bathroom, so why not the doors???

Sorry, I just had to.......

All in good fun....

Hayduke

I hope not. I think you have to do what you want. In my house, I think it would be too boring. I will have the same theme (contemporary, frameless) but not the same color or even handles.

What about flooring?

jenny