I don't know how large of an accent area you are speaking of, but mother of pearl tile comes in almost pure white to beiges and tan, to hues of blue. My bathroom remodel is about to get underway. It is all ordered and demo date set. It's mostly Torreon Travertine, My sinks, tub, baseboards and doors are white. I am adding a mother of pearl tiny brick laid tile to the face of my built in shower bench. It is white with tan. I bought samples from Tilebar.com I chose mini brick oyster white. You can read the reviews and see photos of the customers who used the product. We ordered several color samples of the pearl tile and chose this one for our project. It runs $17.99 a sf sheet. Good Luck

I had the same situation between which white to choose. I completely agree with everyone that says you can't really choose a color until you see the sample in your new kitchen. I picked during the framing stage by putting all the samples next to each other in what was to be the kitchen and looking at them at different times of the day over several days. I hung a tarp over the exterior wall to try and simulate the lighting of the kitchen after sheet rock. I have a hard time with creamy whites because they go yellow in the evening here (Seattle) so I picked BM White Dove, which was the middle of the road in my samples. Of course I was second guessing myself right up until the end, but I'm glad I went with the the mid-white of the samples as it does tend to go a little yellow at night and it's not too stark during the day. The grey undertone helps keep the yellowing minimal. Here's what I came up against that others should know...my cabinets were site finished and they were sprayed with a primer of bright white. Talk about operating room! I was glad I didn't go with the brightest white of my samples. Then the first coat of BM White Dove Satin Impervo went on. Each time I had to shut down the job site for three days and crank the heat while the paint cured. I hated waiting three days to see the cabinets and all the built-ins! Anyway, after the first coat of White Dove I snuck in the house at night. The cabinets were the dingyest yellow of all yellows! Yikes! Of course I cried because I had picked the wrong color when I was hoping I had picked the perfect color. Back to square one. Ugh. But then the next day as I moped around the job site I noticed that the cabinets didn't match my sample from the store. Here's what happened...I went to my local BM store and bought several quarts of tinted Satin Impervo paint mixed at the store. After I chose the White Dove, my painter went to his BM wholesaler and bought White Dove Satin Impervo off the shelf as it is one of BM's stock colors. Although most say the formulas are the same, they aren't! The difference was horrifying! Luckily it was the first coat, I was able to figure out the problem and the final coat went on perfectly in store mixed White Dove paint. Sadly, we had already finished all 40 shelves and 74 doors when the carcasses were painted and the mistake was discovered so we had to go back and redo all of them. My point? No matter what you choose, always go with the exact same formulation as your sample!

How about making the drawers on the message center white and the shelves above a mix of stained and white? Like white frame & shelves with a stained beadboard back? I think that repeating that white over in the main area 3 times like that will give a visual flow to the white accent pieces and also look more balanced with the amount of stained you have going on. I have a magazine clipping from a 1999 Kitchen Design magazine that I have kept all these years, it features 2 different tones of stain and some painted cabinets as well. Three different countertops in that kitchen too. So it may become 'dated' or look 'trendy'-when the next hot thing comes along but if you love it you will likely still be happy with your choice. We are also mixing it up in our kitchen and what is important I think is that it suits your home and style of decorating. I have alot of painted/distressed furniture so I think it will make the painted pieces in our cabinetry blend in with the rest of the decor.

We didn't do white cabinets, but we did do white base boards, door molding, and crown molding. It had to be nice with the Heaven on Earth blue we put on the walls. The cabs and floor would go with anything, so they didn't factor in. In the end, I put all the white chips I'd collected down on the counter (Kashmir Gold) + the blues we'd decided on and chose the white that complemented both the wall color and the granite. It was the granite tones that sealed the deal. We ended up with Bavarian Cream. Do you have something in your kitchen-to-be that needs a tone match? All of your choices are often used for white cabinets, so I'd just go with one you like in your space with your light. If you like them all equally, then good for you! In that case, maybe eeny-meeny-miney-moe and move onto the next decision. ;-)