I thought you were going to be asking about fixture and pulls (handles) finishes. I would say "yes" you can mix metals. As for a dark brown vanity and a white stack of shelves and counter, I'm not sure but maybe since you'd have the white marble top on the dark wood. People mix perimeter cabs and islands in the kitchen and it looks great. Seems like there's not much you "shouldn't" do these days. What's your first impression? Mine would be to have it match, but that's just me. It's been a real struggle to get over my matchy and symmetrical self :o Monica

Thanks everybody. The floors are in good shape. The color just does nothing for me. A little background: I've been househunting for two years. Two of my biggest must-have's after school district were a nice kitchen (or a price that would allow me to put in a nice kitchen - but even that was second-best, because the time commitment would have really created a problem for me) and wood floors. This house has by far the nicest kitchen that I have seen in two years. It is far nicer (and more expensive) than anything I could've put in myself - and not very far off my taste, although obviously not exactly what I would have done). But now as closing approaches, I keep thinking about all of the brown and the not particularly large windows and wondering if I just bought a really nice kitchen. (It's a Tudor with some brown siding and brown garage and exterior doors, so the brown theme is inescapable. The roof is brown too, but I need to replace it and think that will be dark gray, in order to preserve my ability to change the color of the siding and the doors and the windows later. Did I forget to mention the dark paneling in the family room and the basement? I'll be painting the paneling in the family room.) I'm being a little crazy. Anyway, I agree rugs would do wonders. I only have two so far, but rugs would be a lot cheaper than refinishing. I will be curious to see what adding the doors to the painting will cost though. There are something like 13 or 14 interior doors, and then all of the closet doors on top of that, and the closet doors are slatted. I'm the other hand, I think I'm going to have to paint them one way or another anyway, so maybe it just makes more sense to do the doors and accept that the floors will be the floors for a long time to come. I just can't decide about the windows. I know it would be reasonably simple to paint the wood windows, but I'm not sure makes sense to do that when about half of them are vinyl. My contractor says he had painted vinyl windows before, and Andersen actually has instructions on how to do it on their site, but he did warn me that they could peel.

As with all good design, matching everything exactly isn’t the right call. You want your space to be curated and custom, and if you choose the same hardware throughout the house (especially in different rooms), your home will feel builder-grade and boring. Your hardware should be sisters, not twins—meaning sharing some similar elements but not the exact same. For example, if you have a more modern aesthetic, pick 2-3 hardware colors and choose all modern hardware. That way, the space will feel cohesive and custom without feeling boring. We have some ideas about hardware, fromour favorites to everything you need to know about hardware to what paint colors go best with what hardware. Good luck, and keep us posted on your progress!

@dough71, thanks for reporting back and congratulations on your gorgeous doors! I wish we'd gone with Trustile's doors because we had nothing but problems with our Simpson doors! The doors that were supposed to take less than 3 months to arrive at our home took 15+ months to arrive because of various production errors and defects. Simpson had to remake one of our closet doors 3 separate times!!! It was incredibly stressful and frustrating, not to mention resulting in additional installation costs by us due to no fault on our end... Additionally, Simpson did absolutely nothing to make up for the delay or the extra installation costs. We definitely regret going with Simpson doors!!!