It'll be fine. Our kitchen has all different handles, and no one notices, including us. As Weissman said, most of us on this forum mix brands in order to get "best in show". It's better to find the best appliance than to find an appliance that you may not like, except that it has a matching handle. Many of us mix finishes in addition to the handles. I've seen some showstopping kitchens on the Kitchens Forum, where there might be white range with a stainless hood, or black fridge with stainless range, etc. And, as you've discovered, handles can be different even within the same brand. Sometimes when I see new-construction home or condo, with a matching suite of appliances, all I think is "hmm, developer must have gotten a deal on a bulk purchase of appliances". I think the kitchens with different appliances look like someone has put thought into their choices. By the way, which stainless fridge has black handles? I haven't seen that. Can you provide a name and model?

I'd like a zap 'n lock too! my sister has 3 sliding glass doors, garage door, 2 mostly glass doors and a huge wooden front door. they all 'ding' if anyone opens them. she does have security hook up so not sure how that works at night. spect she still has to lock 'em all and set the 'thingy'. actually, she's behind locked gates too... she only unlocks a door if she's expecting someone - usually me. I have a gate opener! my gun is always loaded! it would give me a second or 2 to get it tho. it's always within about 3' at night. I like the idea that if one of the kids/gkids were here (not real likely with little gkids) that I could lock the door tho. i didn't bother with the deadbolt on it. the other doors got deadbolt's with the flipper on the inside. that's needed for me if I need to get out fast AND there is no glass area close to the doors. tho someone could break in thru a window and flip it unlocked. I do think they'd pick somewhere else tho - with dogs barking here... besides - they could just open the patio door! I found some satin nickel I liked - it didn't look like the satin nickel at home depot. that looked like it was coated in a thick clear varnish. weird thing is I was looking at something online today and they even said the satin nickel was covered in clear varnish! ugh! i bought the curved lever for my bedroom and the hall bath and 2 cheaper ones with a straight levers in satin chrome for the back 2 bedrooms. the local hdwr I went to the other morning only had 2 deadbolts and the 2 curved lever handles so went to another local hardware in the afternoon and found another deadbolt and 2 more handles that I like better than the curved ones... dang. I do still need a few more lever handles so will go back to the 2nd hardware for those i think. i was thinking that the security screen doors might look weird with a curved handle on them so had the guy just put the 2 straight ones i'd bought for the back bedrooms on the security doors. the metal color is a bit off to the deadbolt but it was better to have handles on the security doors than the back bedrooms at this time. might switch them around when i get the new handles tho. I do like the look of the stainless. at hardware #1 I found a stainless kitchen faucet i liked for 118.00! imagine that! and they have a bathroom sink faucet for 88.00 I think it was. stainless also and 1 handle. I couldn't believe I saw some I like in SS for that little! one is Delta and 1 is PPhister I think.

You do need continuity, but that doesn't necessarily mean matching everything. Our first floor is all hand-rubbed brass from Visual Comfort. Those rooms all flow together, and using the same metal finish makes everything seem more spacious. Upstairs, brass continues into the hallway and MBR. But two rooms--my office and the guest room--have ORB. You see both at once when you look right at the top of the stairs, so I didn't want them to clash with each other. Plus, the metals give the rooms a different feeling. My office is very vintage in style. We had a hammered wrought iron bed and bookcase for the guest room to start with, so I went with a concept that combines dark metals with a crystal and ORB mini-chandelier. The bathrooms are different metals entirely. Upstairs is nickel, which I will never do again, and downstairs is chrome. I think it's pretty traditional to use different metals in bathrooms. My point is, you can certainly match everything if you feel like it. Nothing wrong with it at all. You can also mix it up. What I wouldn't do is ignore which rooms flow into each other, use a different finish in every room, or overlook the type of mood you want to set in each room. Your lighting choices in a new build are one of the first decisions you'll make that cross the line from architecture into decorating, and each of those decisions closes the door to other options. For instance, you can't do an ORB chandelier in a dining room and then later decide you want a full-on traditional George III look.

We had a condo (although not contemporary). I painted the walls, ceiling and woodwork all the same white and all the same finish (matte). But, my reason for not doing a semi-gloss on the trim was the trim was dinky…and I didn’t want to call attention to it. It worked! If the woodwork is something special, would you like it to stand out? It won’t be an in your face difference, but a difference none the less. One other thing…what ever you decide …there is still that shadow around the raised trim which falls back onto the walls, so I don’t understand how one finish will make the space feel bigger. Looking at inspiration photos doesn’t help because the rooms have been professionally lighted to perfection and there are no blemishes. This room looks like all is in white matte…maybe Why not try the matte walls and on one area of the woodwork do a sample of gloss and the other of the matte. I really am interested how it all turns out.