The cabinets are beautiful! I think that you are correct, especially since you have another white cabinet around the corner. Treat them as individual cabinets.

I love your cabinet pulls!

Thank you! I cannot wait until this is done- it's been three months and I have definite renovation fatigue! There's going to be a filler piece added to the corner with the crown following the bend. Well, it's not really crown, but more like a flat board to fill the gap, and a strip of cove molding along the top to make up for the uneven ceilings. Nothing in this 100 year old house is square, so that was the best I could come up with. Thank you for the compliment on the pulls! I really love them, but at the moment, I'm the only one who does. The carpenter looked at me like I had three heads when he saw the different styles, and he thinks they look terrible. Something about mixing the modern and the antique-y look, but I don't think he gets that the whole thing will be a mix of old and new in the end!

I think it would look more cohesive to have that white cabinet painted grey so they meld together and use crown accordingly. Painting crown half grey half white would make me crazy. The white cabinet looks a little out of place all by itself on that wall. jmho though!

I would treat them separately and have a gap in the crown

Painting the white cabinet isn't an option- all the upper cabinets are white, and they are factory sprayed. It's hard to see in the picture, but the white uppers go around the corner and all along the adjacent wall (the corner filler piece hasn't been added yet). I totally agree on the half and half painting- it would look ridiculous. I seriously think the carpenter is trying to drive me bananas- he put the crown up win two pieces, but they are so close together it might as well be one piece. Argh!

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It helps if you have a depth change so that each piece is cut individually at a natural line, like above. But, you can do a scarf join where the gray meets the white. One piece of gray, one piece of white. I'm assuming factory finished molding as well?

I'm confused. You say all uppers are white but what is the grey big cabinet? It is all grey. Personally, I would do molding ALL white including the tall grey one.

The scarf join is much prettier! I wish I had thought to make the gray tall one deeper to accommodate the crown. When we did the design, the crown wasn't accounted for, unfortunately. The crown molding isn't factory finished, we had to get matched paint for it.

bossyvossy, the upper wall cabinets are white and the lowers are gray, but there's the tall pantry which spans the height of the room and is gray (it had to be one of the other). Do you think all white would look ok?

I do and besides, ceiling is white so good justification to be white to match ceiling not cabinetry. Definitely no on the two color thing

I'd do crown to match ceiling around the entire room (yeah I see that stairway ceiling slope which makes it tricky). Make it part of the room trim, not part of the cabinets.

Thank you so much, that's a very good suggestion- I haven't been thinking of the room as a whole. I really appreciate the input. This whole project has been going on for so long and with such annoying difficulties all along the way, that I feel like every decision will put me over the edge. So many gorgeous kitchens around here, and trying to get even close to that look with my tiny budget has been a real eye opener! I've learned recently why there is a such thing as finish carpenters. And also, why I can't afford one :)

They say there are finish carpenters out there. I will believe it when I see it. :D

Since these cabinets run on the same plane and smacked together, I would use white. Ones eyes will follow the lines from center of the room and out to the sides. White that would be my choice.

Any possibility you can remove the tall cabinet, and put 2x4 spacers behind it to make it sit proud of the the other cabinets? You could fill in the gap at the back with a painted trim piece.

"Well, it's not really crown, but more like a flat board to fill the gap, and a strip of cove molding along the top to make up for the uneven ceilings."

This statement heads me in a different direction. There's a joint between the two cabinets now. If you are basically putting in flat fill pieces (as you would do in a modern kitchen) I would put in two pieces of wood, with the joint lined up with the cabinets, and paint each the color of the cabinet below.

Since this is usually done in a modern kitchen that's the example I found and you can see below they extended the color of the cabinet below up to the ceiling. I realize you don't have a modern kitchen -- but you are proposing a modern style fill strip for the gap so here ya go:

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Stacy - How did you end up solving your molding problem? I am in a similar position myself.

I would buildout the crown on the gray cabinet...even 3/4" to give a depth change. Then die that into the crown of the white cabinet.