smarge,

I am looking at camoflauge/BM!!! Also White cabinets with a dark wood island.....do you have any pics i can see?????

thanks....

They aren't the best pictures, but I'll post them since it's all I have right now. I'm moving in three days and will post better pictures of my finished kitchen later in the summer, after we're unpacked and settled.

Hope these help in the meantime!

As you can see, I don't have a whole lot of free wall space in my kitchen.

You can see it in a sunny part of the room here.

This is also Camouflage in the mudroom. Not nearly as much light here, so it looks more gray (although the flash of the camera made it look more pale green.)

Major thread drift, but sine you asked and no one is posting the pics I wanted, why not?!?!?

Here's an old pic of my dark island, although I took this to show the marble and you can't really see the island in the context of the white cabinets. I'll post better pictures after we move.

i love it.......i like how the color can look green, gray or khaki.....your home is beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!

These are Lowes instock Natural Maple cabinets that we installed in our basement with BM Camouflage paint.

Check out my kitchen in the Finished Kitchen Blog. It pairs Camouflage paint with red birch cabinets, Wild West granite and a green glass backsplash.

CallieandKarin, I can't make the link to your kitchen pictures work on the Finished Kitchens Blog. Can you give us another link to your cabinets. I'd love to see how it all works together. Thanks, Jane

smarge: Is that calacatta marble on your island?

blakey - not it's not. It is Danby Vermont Marble. I found it at Dente in NJ and I absolutely love it!

I could show you pictures of disappointing Calacutta Gold marble that we bought, at tremendous expense, for our master bath. The slabs were very white with a LOT of gray and barely any of the gold color my husband so loved in the sample. We had to keep buying a ton of the floor tiles to try to get the whitest tiles we could, so they would look right with the slab couters and sills. In hindsight, I don't think my husband would have gone for the Calacutta Gold marble, knowing what he knows today.

About my marble top - I had "final" cleaners in (that I hired at great personal expense since my GC's cleaners were pathetic) yesterday, the day before our scheduled move. Four people cleaned for 7 hours in my kitchen, removing all drawers, cleaning inside the cabinet boxes, inside all the filthy brand new appliances inside and out, etc. They were almost done when my GC had the fabricator's workmen in to my kitchen to grind out the long, curved gouge one of his workers put in my island top! This, after I left specific and sternly worded instructions that my marble top was to be REMOVED because I did not want marble dust all over the kitchen after the cleaners were here.

They ground the top. I walked in after 15 minutes and started screaming and cursing at anyone in sight!

We were not able to move in today. My top looks like you-know-what. I am not ever speaking to my GC again; he has to go through my husband for EVERYTHING now, because my breath is wasted on him since he clearly doesn't listen to me.

I'm so angry I could (and did, many times) cry!

(Grrrrrr.)

smarge, What a frustrating experience. I know I would have reacted the same way and am trying not to think ahead to similar situations that I know are inevitable in this process. We are only at the end of the planning phase and I've found numerous times when I've wondered if I'm really up for this. But I keep thinking of all the people out there who have endured the kitchen renovation process and it gives me hope! Hang in there, I'm sure it will all be resolved. Easy for me to say. But thanks for the head's up about the marble. I got a sample of calacatta from Stone Surfaces in Bergen County and it's perfect. But I have a feeling that when I go to pick out my slab, if that's the correct phrase, I won't find the same color. That will really put a damper on things. if I'm not satisfied with what I see, I'll keep Dente in mind and the marble you used. Or, I'll just switch back to honed black granite(even though everyone advises against it) or soapstone. But my first choice is that creamy, soft veining in this sample of calacatta that I have.
Good luck with getting things back to the way they should be in your kitchen.
And thanks for all of the information.

Sorry about the delay, janeincolorado! Below is the corrected link... Good luck with your kitchen, and let me know if you have any questions!

Here is a link that might be useful: c&k's kitchen, red birch, wild west granite, green glass backsplash