I think it looks very nice. I like that look a lot. Will your floors be dark for contrast?

I think you can make it work, but you'll need to be careful with the rest of the finishes to pull out the coloration of the stone and make it look like it matches them, rather than being off-white. Some french blues and amber yellows would be good.

Thank you Maggie and Plllog - my floors will be medium toned hardwood, stainless appliances, and I think either yellow or gray on the walls.
I've just been reading some posts on seams and I'm wondering if this granite might be tricky - I have an L shaped counter.

Someone posted awhile back how her fabricator used S curves for the seams. Because it wasn't a straight line it was a lot less visible. A standard way to do an L is to have the whole corner wrap a few inches so that the seam isn't in the corner. Talk to your fabricator, and if you don't like the answers, find someone else.

I think with the yellow or gray on the walls, and maybe a little of one or both in the backsplash, it'll be plenty to pull up the color in that stone and make it contrast nicely with the white doors.

Gina, I love the granite and cabinet together, and they will be great with a medium tone wood floor! What is the name of the granite? An elegant combination!

Thank you for the seam advice - I'm meeting with the fab. today and hopefully they will have good suggestions.
Nancy- the granite is Bianco Romano and thank you for the "elegant" comment - that's the look I was trying for, casual elegant, but I'm having trouble getting there. My present 1970's kitchen is anything but elegant!
I have a problem seeing color, sometimes grays and greens look like beige to me. I love carrera marble and Supreme White, but I've done some testing and I don't think they could withstand the boys in the house :)
Gina

Sorry, bumping my own post...meeting with fab. in 1hr.

Camerong --

I think the cabinet and granite look lovely together. I agree with pllog -- some amber-toned yellows somewhere in the kitchen (decide where later) will pull it all together.

Make sure your fabricator allows you to come see how he has laid out the pieces he will cut from your slab of granite, before he cuts them. (He can lay them out with tape first, and then you can go to his shop to see.)

I went to the fabricator and discussed where the seam should be. I haven't seen the slab in a while (only in the picture) and I'm getting nervous thinking bianco romano is too busy.
Does anyone look at it and think it's too busy or it is a good match for my cabinets?
Thank you! - Gina

I love the granite with your cab! It doesn't look real busy to me, but everyone has a different definition of what is "busy" in tile, granite, etc. I think it will look very elegant with med. to dark floor and a "quiet", coordinating (picking up one the colors in granite) backsplash to let the granite take center stage. Good luck and keep posting pics, please!

I love the combination and agree with pllog. It does not appear to be "busy."

Your granite is really beautiful and will look gorgeous with your cabinets and floor. I love Plllog's suggestion for french blues, but think grays will look great too.

It's not very busy at all! At least not in the picture. If you don't like dots, however, it might not be a good choice for you.

As to whether it's a "good match", that depends on what you mean. Digital pictures displayed on different monitors, even ones which have been calibrated recently, will look different, and certainly different from real life. Even so, some things are apparent in the way the two pieces in the picture relate to each other. The cabinet door looks bright white. The stone reads "white" but is very blue (gray) and yellow with dark dots. The two pieces don't "match" by my definition.

They do, however, go together, with some tension. That is, it's not an obvious pairing and they push and pull each other trying to resolve whether to be white white or colored not-really-white. Tension is good in design. It tantalizes the eye and defies expectation (i.e., it isn't boring). That's why before I was talking about pulling out the colors in the stone to emphasize the differences. You're never going to make the stone white like the cabinets by wishing, but you can enhance the colors in the stone by showing more of those colors elsewhere, as we've discussed, with your walls and accents. That sets up a color story, and that's a good thing.

So, no, they don't match, but yes, they look good.

Have you done the Sweeby Test? (Check the Read Me thread for it.) Do these choices satisify your answers to that?

It doesn't matter how much we like this and how we would use it to get the kitchen we see in our own heads. It matters whether you're getting the effect you want. You sound very unsure and not necessarily happy with this combination.

If you're just having cold feet I'll give you as many hugs and as much support as you need to get you through a stressful process. But if you're so unsure because you really don't love it but you're trying to love it because it's the one you've found that best fits the bill and your parents want grandchildren, call off the wedding now!!!

It doesn't matter about delays if you're going to be unahppy with the result.

Also, if you can't find Mr. Perfect, better to settle for Mr. Steady and Boring, than Mr. Exciting and Unreliable. (I.e., something plainer and less challenging that can just settle into the background and show off your canisters nicely.)

Thanks everyone. I really appreciate all the help.
Pollog - you're absolutely right. When I look at my earlier posts, I'm amazed at how simple it started. Maybe I need to go back to what I originally thought was my dream kitchen. I'm not a good decorater because of the color issue, so I know I would have trouble decorating around bianco romano.
Thanks Again.

Hi everyone,
I'm going to put Uba Tuba with the cabinet in the picture above. Do you think this will look good in an older home?
Thank you!

Wow! That's a big change!! But, yes, white cabinets with a dark counter is a traditional look. Do you like the strong contrast?