I like the Mocha (darkest) with the Alaska white granite and flooring. I don't think it will be too dark if you keep the back splash light.

Gorgeous slab!! I like the Mocha cabs best.

I vote for the Mocha. Very pretty!

I like the middle one, avoiding dark overload to me. Also prefer it with the floor. Either will be pretty

Mocha!

I can understand your dilemma on whether to go with the medium or the darker cabinet stain due to your natural lighting.

My gut feeling is that it probably won't make all that much difference as far as the overall lighting issue with either choice.

White cabinets maybe would bring in more light. However, choosing between medium wood verses darker wood cabinets? Not so much. At least the darker cabinet stain gives you some needed contrast to the flooring and countertop.

The mocha to me works the best with the alsaka white granite, which I love. It also gives a nicer contrast with the awesome walnut floors, verses blending in with them too much. Those walnut floors are absolutely stunning, btw!

So, imho, I'd personally go with the mocha. Whatever you decide, I look forward to the reveal.

oh and adding that baby girl is the cutest!

I also like the Mocha. Your granite reminds me of Kellienoelle's espresso cabinets, similar granite & clean white subway tile.

Are you planning to do American Walnut floors? That would be my only hesitation with the Mocha.

Yes, American Walnut floors. Here's are two pictures with the actual floor sample, cabinet samples, and tile sample (to be used in bathrooms w/ the lightest cabinet color.)

Bright lighting...

Rotated for darker lighting...

My gut says mocha (even though I truly love the cappuccino and oregano colors and think they would look great with these floors if I had a solid or solid black countertop)!

I have to make a final decision by May 24, and based on the feedback here I think I will go with the mocha. :)

I like the granite with the cabinet combo, but I'm not loving the floor with the granite. They are both busy & I'm not loving the colors together.

I've already purchased the floor and the granite.

Jillus I LOVE that. Totally love it! Makes me feel like MAYBE I can pull off this look. They even describe it as "modern craftsman" which was my initial vision for the house 6 months ago, before we went down a dozen rabbit holes! The medium-tone was my our instinct.

I think my granite place will let me choose a different slab, so maybe we can find an Alaska White with less movement but similar coloring.

I have a meeting with the cabinet guy this morning to hopefully finalize the layout and get final pricing.

Do you think I can pull off wood lowers + white uppers in such a small layout?

I think the granite is beautiful (the more movement the better is my preference) and the mocha would be great. I would likely do as Jullus has shown at her pictures and put a white cabinet above to keep the overall feeling light. It seems like a lot of the kitchens with dark cabinets are just too dark.

Practigal, you guys are comforting me. :D

If you are considering white uppers, why not all white cabinets? That would certainly lighten the space. Here is mine with Alaska White.

Someone posted that kitchen for me as encouragement after we chose our granite countertop for our small galley (8' × 11'). I have chestnut lowers and off white uppers and my DH wanted a slab of Colonial White (black & white). Our floor is large dark grey porcelain with some chestnut...think stained concrete. I'd love wood floors but horses, dogs, cat, gravel etc.) .We do have light from all four exposures since it's basically one room.

I don't know if I've pulled it off as far as other people, but we're happy. :) We love our chestnut cabinets with the granite and I really owe the poster who bucked me up. Please don't change your slab, the 'movement' everyone talks about isn't that big a deal with a small counter.

If you love that photo, go for it.

I think I'm going with cappuccino lowers and "white" uppers.

I had an all-white kitchen in my last house (you can glimpse the edge of it in the original post) and the lowers were chipped and dented within two years, and I swear we are not crazy people, but I'm an at home mom which means my gremlins are at home 24/7 too! I'm thinking stained wood will wear better.

My builder liked cappuccino best with our floors, and he has a good sense of style and is the only person who has spent MORE time than me in the space and handling the chosen wood floors. :)

Can you guys help me pick my "white?" :)

The two on the left are the ones I'm considering, the one on the right is "true white" so you can get a feel for the colors.

Thrilled you went back to the two tone! The white uppers will really help lighten things up. I am so glad Jillius found that perfect inspiration kitchen for you. It even looks like your granite.

Here's one I've had saved forever. I notice it has a medium wood tone that closely matches the floor and I think it looks great.

Of your two white cabinet samples, I prefer the lighter one. But they actually both seem to go nicely with the granite.

The Mushroom Tinted Varnish, which has a hint of ?taupe, is lovely with your countertops. It doesn't really look white. Any temptation to do uppers & lowers in that color? The Macadamia also looks nice with your stone & I would probably choose that one with the Cappacino lowers. I have true white cabinets & American Black Walnut floors. My cabinets are fine but the floors - dents galore. We are empty nesters but I'm always dropping stuff.

Edit: I just read your post that you may change countertops. In that case, the Cappucino & Macadamia (lighter white). The Walnut floor is gorgeous & I would not give that up but the somewhat busy countertop, high level of variation in the walnut floors & 2 colors of cabinets could be too many things going on. Just a thought as I'm not one of those people that can visualize everything together. I have to see a picture.

edited again: I keep writing Chestnut instead of Cappucino.

After staring at the "white" samples propped up on the wall of the kitchen, I've decided on macadamia (the lighter one)! With the light being so filtered in the space, mushroom (the darker one) looked TOO gray.

When I revisited my stone again this morning I decided I'd rather risk having too much movement than chicken out and wonder what could have been... In a worst case scenario where I truly hate it, I will just mark my calendar for the day the mortgage will be fully paid and get new counters at that time. In the grand scheme of things (location, views, floorplan, etc) the stone is a relatively easy whoopsie to remedy!

So, final decisions are walnut floors, cappuccino lowers, macadamia uppers, and alaska white granite. I am going to revisit that light fixture though. I think I need something more understated, maybe along these lines.

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barncatz -- I'd LOVE to see a picture of your kitchen!

Yay! Oh, I'm so glad that kitchen was such a light bulb for you. It's always so nice when that happens and makes all the decisions so much easier!

You picked the white that I would have. I'm also so pleased that you are keeping your lovely stone. There's a tiny part of that inspiration kitchen's island that has more interest and movement, and I've often (as I said, I've had that kitchen pinned forever) wished all the counters in that kitchen were like that small part. That's essentially what your counters will look like!

It's gonna be gorgeous!

arialvetica, I'm waiting on backsplash tile, but I posted a photo on this thread. Keep scrolling down

You might want to take a look at her off white cabs and black & white granite (hers have a more yellow undertone). We initually didn't have ANY uppers, so when we added them , I did light so as not to overwhelm the space with dark uppers. I did off white because DH insisted we needed to stay with QS oak and they didn't offer a true white paint option for oak, just off white stain.

I'm curious as to why you didn't consider the true white. I do regret not fighting DH about it. I like the kitchen, but would have preferred the look in Jilius' photo. (Shhh).

I felt like the true white made my granite look a little dingy, and made the upper cabinets look disconnected from the rest of the space. Matching the cabinets to the lightest "white" in the stone seemed to tie it all together. My kitchen is pretty small, so I want to make sure that everything in it flows together nicely.

Your lower cabinet stain color...TO DIE FOR. I totally love it! It is so warm and inviting!

Thank you. You're going to love yours as well.

looks like you made perfect decisions!!

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