My kitchen is pretty small and simple and my house has mostly straight lines and ninety degree angles so I thought I shouldn't do anything too ornate. I showed my contractor a little dresser I have in my bedroom that's from around the same period as the house (1913) after finding some 19-teens original kitchen photos showing old kitchen furniture. Of course I didn't have to go through the trouble (the ones with a curved side, more like '20's furniture, are gorgeous!) but I was feeling guilty about compromising the craftsman look it originally had which went straight to the floor with no toe kick. So I thought it was a fair compromise for an old house lover. ;) When we bought the house the lowers had already been replaced in the '70's (ack!) but I have a photo of the kitchen from back in the '40's and it clearly was original back then...but due to putting in a dishwasher and needing to bump it out, I decided to combine the looks to get at least some toe kick area where I mostly work in the kitchen.

Hi Theresse,

What is that color on the lower cabinets? Is it different form the upper cabinets? Is it some glorious shade of gray? Love that :)

And I like the shaker style, which we are doing in our kitchen, hopefully. But we are mixing cherry and painted. Not sure how that will look, but I wanted a mix of furniture looks and kitchen cabinet looks.

Love the shaker thread! TY Shermp :)

Here are mine, more of an arch with a notch at the top:

Honeychurch - love your kitchen!

Marthasdream - it's BM's Fieldstone Gray, which has an ever-so-slight hint of green in it, and it was inspired by this picture:

I was going to paint my kitchen like hers (all gray cabinets and trim with cream walls) but I'm now thinking I'll do the upper cabs gray but the window something else and the floor-to-ceiling wall of cabs I have no another wall something else too. E.g. white window and white cabinets elsewhere and white trim but cream walls...or cream upper cabs and wall of cabs and cream trim with the walls being a 3rd color but who knows what color would work besides boring ol' white. Maybe a super light apple green but maybe not.

Here's another angle, though I should be ashamed to show it since I keep posting this same old picture on all the threads lately!

No, no, we love ALL pictures! (Or so I tell myself, having posted the same ones for 2 years now ...) Thersse, I can't tell you how pleased I am that your stainless counters turned out so beautifully. Yum!

Here's a slightly weird pic, but it gives you a sampler of my feet - some painted and some stained just like the cabinetry. We made them ourselves; just cut them out of extra cabinet wood with a jigsaw and screwed/glued them in. They look a lot like Honeychurch's feet: