My husband is not partial to white but I love white cabs, our last build I went with dark to let him have some sort of say in our decisions, and I later wished I went with his imput on anything other than the cabinet color. I imagined the cabinets a beautiful cream color, (in my dreams) but this house I got my way. Do what pleases you and works for your family first and foremost, but if it were me Id leave the cabinets white, except the island. The island could go black maybe? The perimeter granite should be changed for sure, some pattern or color of your liking. Id say you are on the right track with all your ideas especially going stainless, and putting in a different floor. Im partial to dark wood floors with that much light, yes even in the kitchen, if that makes you nervous look at the dark cork floors -they hold up to water and are soft on your feet and you wont be able to damage it (or break everything that drops like you do with tile) Mainly its important to make decisions based on what finishes will work for your family. I would definitely take the advise of others and check out the finished kitchens and look at the white kitchens before you decide you dont like the cabs, white kitchens are timeless. So long as there are farmhouses, American or European, villas or cottages, theres been white cabinets. They do not go out of style, and your cabs can go with an elegant flair by dressing the kitchen up with a sparkly chandelier or oppositely with modern sleek lighting, depending on your taste. After living with dark cabs and now whites I can tell you they certainly make the room brighter even on cloudy rainy days like weve been having.

Hi. I have a similar dilema, I have an all white kitchen, with stainless steel accents and sink and brown hardwoods. I am installing Ubatuba (dark green) in a couple of weeks. I have purchased a white undermount sink for the new granite countertop and I just purchased a white smoothtop cooktop. Even though I have made this purchases, I am second-guessing myself. Do I switch out the white sink for stainless steeel and the cooktop for black/stainless steel? I was thinking the black would just blend too much with the granite and it would be the only appliance in the kitchen that has black, except for the coffee-maker - any suggestions?

Sombreuil_mongrel mentioned the haze ones. Those are the ones we have (made by Juno Lighting) in our kitchen both for our 4" and 5" cans. They are wonderful as they actually do seem to disappear into the ceiling--no "ceiling acne" (as someone here called can lighting awhile back). We have the black baffles in our basement ceiling and the haze ones are much, much nicer IMO--worth the upcharge. You can check out the various colours on Juno's website but there may well be other manufacturers of the coloured baffles too. Another way to make can lights more esthetically pleasing is to use frosted (sometimes called "ice") halogen bulbs. We found them a bit harder to find than regular ones, but again, we felt they were worth it.

Wow, I'm just now seeing this! Beautiful kitchen, Babs! Love everything about it, especially the counters and floors! They are stunning. Couple of questions, one may be too difficult to answer, and if so, I completely understand. It's about your glass cabinets. Do you know how wide they are and how wide your doors are? My cabinet maker is thinking one door on a wider cabinet, and I love the look of yours with two! Also, you may have mentioned it in another thread that I missed, but who did you order your counter stools from? They too, are gorgeous!! Congrats, Congrats, Congrats.