Personally, I don't care for different door styles. I love my ivory glazed cabs~they're on the interior of the kitchen. The perimeter cabs are the same style(traditional), but are a dark stained alderwood, almost the same color as the dark handscraped wood flooring.

Keep in mind you will have this kitchen for a long time, unless you move or though not remotely possible, have another fire(i did not just type that!), and you'll be looking at it every single day. Do what your heart tells you. Ya gotta love it!

I am not a designer in any way, shape or form but since you wish you had gone lighter with your uppers, I would do it now, perhaps match your cabs to the light flecks in your granite.

I'd keep the same door style as your lowers for continuity.

We had our quartz removed after our kitchen flood and they removed it with no breaking or anything. Amazing actually, we had one really large piece with no seam and no breakage.

Who is doing your restoration?

And whatever you want to change, do it now. I don't think you want to do this again in 5 years!

I don't think I would mix door styles.

I don't think I would mix styles either. Occasionally you might see shaker uppers and then the top drawer might be a slab front. To underplay the shaker uppers many will put in some sort of glass in the cabinets - either clear or a frosted of some sort. Hopefully this link will work of grey lowers and white (rather than cream) uppers. It's picture 6 of 6.

Link:grey lowers and white uppers

Me too, unanimous for same door style on both uppers and lowers, and going brighter white on the uppers. Are you tired of the shaker cabinets and wanting to do something different? Because that's a whole different question :-)

I'm not that knowledgable about the latest trends in kitchens, so please take my thoughts with a grain salt, but my personal preference would be to have differing colors but similar doors though I really love the glass in the uppers. I also love your faucet especially since that is what I have (hee hee).

What I would like to throw out there though is that if you do end up getting new counters and/or have an opportunity to change your sink, the Silgranite sinks are wonderful and I highly recommend them. When we redid our kitchen a few years ago, I was encouraged to get one from folks in the kitchen forum. It's a great option and I can't tell you how happy I am that I followed their advise. We have dark Verde Peacock granite so we got the sink in black and it looks really nice. The black would look great with your lower cabinets and granite too.

I will keep the trend going -- lighten the uppers but don't change the door style. I have different colors and door styles, but they are very slightly different and really carry the same look throughout. My wood finish cabs have a raised panel while my white and blue cabinets do not and that's as different as it gets. I can't think if where I would put slab over shaker. Possibly the other way around -- if anything, wouldn't you want the details where your eye would pick them up and plain below. I think you could wind up looking like you redid only half a kitchen.

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Definitely not doing different doors then. But I'm more and more convinced to go with the brighter white. It doesn't seem like a huge change, but I can see the whole main floor colour scheme being affected and so want to make sure it's really going to work.

Blfenton, that is exactly the look I'd love to achieve.

I almost went with glass last time, but quickly realized that we have so little storage space that some of our very unattractive kitchen items must be stored in the cabs that would be glass. I'm also very bad at cleaning glass, but hate fingerprints.

lukki, how do find the Moen lasting. We've had to have a few parts replaced over the years and I'm contemplating changing it now before something else goes on it. Altho I think we've replaced most parts that could need replacing so will probably keep (and all was under warranty). Thanks for the suggestion on the sink, but I kind of love mine. It has a big deep bowl and a small shallow bowl. Nothing special to look at but really works for us.

aklvdb, it's Belfor Restoration. Please don't tell me anything negative about them at this point because everything is signed and they've started. I met with the trades the other day and everything/one seemed okay. Altho they haven't even started demo yet and we are already 2 weeks behind schedule from where they said we'd be when we signed contracts. I know you said yours took forever and I have to admit to going into it a bit pessimistically.

Here is a floor plan if anyone wants to have a go at that (but it will likely remain similar due to granite having to remain).

Your granite is dark so I would go light with the cabs and keep the same door style. I have slab doors, after having grooved doors for 28 years, and love, love , love them. No more trying to get gook out of the grooves and so easy to just wipe down.

I understand about the sink, ours has the same set up, it works great!

You must have the older model of that faucet. I did too and had that same problem, it is JUNK!!! Ours broke 3 times! When I called Moen for parts this last time, they wanted to charge us (even though it had a warranty and I had to hire a plumber to change the part that was broken)! I was so angry, I demanded a completely new faucet free of charge. They refused so I told them that's fine, that I was an active participant on GardenWeb, a very large forum for decor as well as kitchen and bath design. I promised that I would make sure that anyone and everyone inquiring about anything concerning faucets or plumbing would be given my honest opinion about Moen and I would be sharing the saga of our faucet as an example, then I hung up. The next day a manager from their parts department called to apologize for the problems we had been experiencing as well as how the previous call was handled. He said there had been a lot of problems with the model we had and it had since been redesigned; he was shipping one to me that day. So thanks to Moen, we had to pay a plumber to come work on our faucet for the fourth time (installation, 2 fixes and one replacement, cha ching!).

I have to say though, the new design is fabulous, it's been at least a couple of years now and we haven't had any issues with it. I would have thrown in the towel and replaced it, but I really love the way it looks and the nozzle is so comfortable to use, but honestly after all the problems, I will never ever buy Moen again.

Btw, that pic BlFenton linked to is gorgeous, I really love that!