I haven't chosen any of the hardware yet, so I am open to suggestions. But these are pretty cheapo 1980's cabinets, not as nice as any posted here :) The first picture posted is very nice, but those shaker cabinets have more to them than ours. I don't want a very modern look, I like it in other people's kitchens but it's not what fits in my house. Here's the kitchen shortly after we moved in - the paint job the PO did on the cabinets is horrible and needs to be stripped and re-done. The countertops are now concrete, the dishwasher is a new white one, and I'm putting in white subway tile backsplash... so lots of white I love a bright kitchen. Our home is decorated in traditional-transitional style.

I loved those knobs and ordered them to check them out. Unfortunately, I didn't care for them too much in person. The pull is fairly small and the wood is so thick that there's barely room to get your finger behind it to open the drawer. FWIW - I thought it looked good with my cabinets and SS, though and would have chosen them if the pulls were larger. I also didn't like the idea that there were 3 screws in the pull. I'd rather get something with just 2 holes in a standard size so I could change them out easily in the future if I changed my mind.

Bwah-hah! That knob would drive me nuts, too. I'm going to disagree with your mom on this and say you should go with a silvered/black iron kind of hardware. There is a lot of white in the kitchen and the few black things (Keurig, grates on range, window to oven) need more black things near them to feel cohesive. Your granite will help, and I think "black but not totally black" hardware will help, too. Any plan to update the floor while you are doing this? Assuming the current floor is vinyl, there are some really pretty vinyls that will work well with your new counter tops and aren't that much money. I'm linking to one we used in our bathrooms, it looks so real the appraiser noted it as "ceramic tile" (tee hee). Here is a link that might be useful: Vinyl that looks a lot like tile in real life

Thank you, rebunky, for the ahturf mention! They have a bit better pricing than anywhere else I'd found these items. I wonder if it is the 160mm pull that you used for the larger pulls. Those are the ones I'd picked out, as they are a lot larger than the 96 but still quite inexpensive relative to the huge bump in price for the even larger ones. That's what I'm leaning towards doing -- 96s for most, and 160s (just one) for the larger (30+) drawers . . . and now those Amerock glass ones for the upper stacked, and possibly for some of the dining room cabinetry. The cabinetry is being delivered Monday morning, so once I see it in person in the space, I guess I can make some final choices. I've got to do some counting and ordering! Thanks!