Wow, I hadn't realized there were other replies after I posted a couple wks ago. I only came back to check now to rehash my decision. Because no...I still don't know what I'm doing :( I'm literally past obsessing about it. And moved on to being plain, ol' DEPRESSED over it. So much so, that I booked a flight to CA for Feb 26th, so I could go to Ikea and just waste some money on accesories. And NOT paint! At the time, I decided to just put glass in the doors, open up the other couple. Try to find something I really liked to go over the cabs. Nice rug, some under cabinet lighting, and call it a day. But, dh and everyone else knows that would only make me happy for about a wk. So, we're painting. What color? Well, we'll decide that when the guy comes for the doors :( Seriously, I'm just going to flip a coin. Last night I was set on all white. Figured adding some other color in a rug, painting the inside of the glass cabinets green, and adding other stuff wouldn't make it look so sterile. But, that darn floor and the white appliances keep staring at me. I could happily do white cabs if appliances were SS. OR..if the floor was wood. But, having both things against me. I've yet to EVER clip and save a kitchen with light tile, and white appliances. There's a reason for that. I don't like the look ! The black..sigh. I love black. But, since my first post I've changed out my living room quite a bit. It's taking on a lighter tone. And I worry the black is too heavy with it. I've had visions again of going green/gray on the bottom. Dh doesn't want to for resale. And because of how he thinks it'd look against the Lenox Tan paint on the walls. Blue, I love the color you've done! I can totally see doing something like that to work WITH what I have. Not against it. But, again..the paint throughout the whole space would be hard to work with. Dh suggested maybe going with the wall color, at half strength..for the lowers. White uppers. OR..back to black lowers. It's quite obvious I'm all over the map still. And am thankful for all the snow. So, my painter can't get started yet :( Here's my living room. Right off the kitchen. I need to make things flow. And I pretty much stink at this whole decorating thing, so it's a struggle!

fwiw, here's our pantry. It's not exactly what you're looking for, but maybe seeing examples of can storage is helpful. Our roll outs are rated for 100 #. Our cabinet is 36" wide but it's inset so the rollouts boxes are only about 26" wide. We have drawers in the bottom section--they are great for bagged items and pasta boxes. Our upper shelves are deep and I keep unopened boxes of cereals and crackers behind the opened boxes. Our canned items are organized so that items in the same category are grouped together...beans, soups, fruits, tomatoes, veggies. Duplicate cans are stacked on top of each other--that way I know what's in the bottom can even if I can't see the label. Cans falling off haven't been a problem. It happens rarely (maybe 6 times over 5 1/2 years), but when it does, retrieving the can isn't a problem. Only perimeter cans have fallen off--so one easy solution would be to not stack the cans around the edges of the box (or only stacking ones that seat well together.) Honeychurch's cans aren't packed in which makes reading the labels easy. If I had cans on a lower roll out I would probably have to label the tops with a Sharpie so that I could identify them when looking down on them. I would love to get into the habit of dating cans so that I would use the oldest first. Having more incentive to pick up a Sharpie would be a helpful thing for me. I love having a kitchen with a variety of storage options. Good luck!

I think it's a solid idea from a practical standpoint. I hate having to move trivets around to clean or to use the space to prep and I prefer the looks of a cleared off counter top. Less stuff is better to me. So my preference is a countertop material that doesn't need trivets. I'd probably do stainless there as granite can crack from thermal shock if there are fissures. How it looks depends a bit on what the overall vibe of the kitchen is and how many other materials there are, IMO. I would tend to think it would work better in a less formal kitchen with not a lot of other materials (for example, I'd consider choosing just one pull style, one simple tile, etc to keep the over all effect from being too busy).

Oh, I second the keep-the-cabinets opinion. VERY nice kitchen! I love the inside of your pantry and I think glassed or gold chicken-wired (extremely different look!) could work, too. I wouldn't paint the cabinets, but might clean them up with Murphy's Oil soap. I've taken to using that on antique furniture I'm picking up and reselling on CL. It is Ah-MAZe-zing the black dirt that sloughs off, to reveal lovely grain underneath. Yours being a kitchen, I'm betting there's a fair share of unrecognized grease in there. You have nothing to lose in trying that first, either. I love the pine on the ceiling, but I do think I might white wash it. But NOT with white. Oh, how that would look horrendous. Perhaps some type of soft ivory wash, or even a stone/oyster wash. Something soft. As far as the pantry? Just to make it different, I'd rough it up and paint it. I'm not a milk-paint fan, but it could be SO cool antiqued properly. "Properly" is not painted then sanded to look like leopard spots where no wear would have ever, in decades of use, have happened. (Sorry. Rant over. Pet peeve with all these crazy, gonna-make-a-million furniture painting women.) Anyway great kitchen!