Crema bordeaux is beautiful with Cherry cabinets. Antique brown would be pretty. Can you give us more of an idea of what you like? Do you like a lot of movement or a more subtle granite that is more even throughout? Are you doing modern, traditional? DO you have other major features chosen like back splash, appliances, paint on the walls?

Consider quartz - We put in Cambria - but not with natural cherry. It is virtually maintenance free!

Bahacca & a2gemini - thanks for suggestions!
I like most anything... since we have a fireplace within visual... would maybe stay with more subtle even granite to avoid to much business. My cabs are shaker style-natural cherry, with almond colored island. Transitional? Floor is amendiom. We have existing dark oak wood work which we are not changing as it goes well with variation in floor.

I can show you blackish formica with cherry, galaxy with cherry, copper with cherry, verde fuoco with cherry, and butcher block with cherry (two kitchens over the past 7 years). Any preferences?

We are using a light colored Caesarstone with our natural cherry cabs. Be sure to see natural cherry that has fully darkened before you choose a dark counter--you might be surprised by how dark they get. Light colors go very well with cherry.

I love costa esmerelda with cherry

Claybabe - I'd love to see all but butcher block! What brand formica did you go with?
Pictures are welcome!
Thank you!

I like the white/light granite. I did Kashmir White with my natural cherry. I love the way the red brings out the richness and the green provides a good contrast. They are subtle, but with accessories, they can provide a nice pop.

Thank you for the link to thread. I need to stay with brown tones due to existing brick on fireplace. Beautiful countertops!

I just installed natural cherry cabinets and we put in 'Cactus' granite. This granite seems to come with many names- I've seen it also called Desert Green, Desert Oasis, Yanshan Green and might be very close if not the same as Tunis Green or Tunis Verde.

Anyway, it reads like a solid color from a distance but hides a multitude of sins close up. My husband is not a counter-wiper-upper and he makes the coffee in the morning if you know what I'm saying.

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I'm going to try to upload a photo but haven't done this before so might not be successful.

Here is a link that might be useful:

I know it's not brown, but Blue Pearl looks great with natural cherry cabinets. Seeing it in a friend's kitchen is what inspired me to get Blue Pearl with my natural red birch cabinets.

dfpotteri, I Like that green!

OK here goes:

1 Formica, can't recall the brand, might have actually been formica. I got it for the desk because I don't like writing on hard (granite) surfaces. (from Kitchen #1)

2. Black galaxy with little coppery flecks of mica in it (also Kitchen #1):

3. Verde Fuoco, on the Island (Kitchen 1, colors are tough for me to get right, but this one is sort of close, with some cabs behind):

And here is another slab with more accurate colors, in Kitchen 2:

4. I'm throwing in the butcher block, because it is the brownest thing I have! Walnut and Jatoba. We are on Kitchen 2 now:

And copper, around the sink:

I am getting ready to replace corianover my 13 year old natural cherry cabinets. They have darkened over the years. But not substantially. I choose uba tuba before I realized it was an inexpensive choice. I just liked the look of it and feel it will look good with my cherry cabinets. I have a natural oak floor.

Check out athomedad at the fnished kitchen blog. He has verde peacock with his cherry cabinets.

I had natural cherry cabinets in my old house and had DuPont Zodiac quartz installed in Vela Brown, which is a dark bronze-like brown. Had it for 8 years and never had to do a thing to it. It looked like new when I left. We got granite in the new kitchen just because I couldn't find a lighter quarz that I liked, but I loved the quartz that I had!

We are going with golden crystal granite with our natural cherry.

Thank you all for your suggestions and posting pictures! Claybabe - love your counters/kitchen! Beautiful. I will need to make decision soon... as soon as my island is installed. Thanks again!

Hi. I am having the same dilemma. We decided last week that we will have natural cherry cabinets. We really like Cambria Canterbury quartz. Anyone have any thoughts/opinions on this?

I think quartz is the only substance not in one of my kitchens, sorry I overlooked it :)

I am sure it will be lovely: It really helped me to look at photos of (thousands of) other kitchens, focusing on whatever I was obsessing on at the time, so I could figure out what things caught my eye for real, not just in theory. And once you know if you like dark contrast, lighter contrast, or tone-on-tone best, you can start pluggin in the pieces like granite, floor, etc.