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What color hardware for stainless steel countertops?

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Will be redoing our kitchen and going with stainless steel countertops? I am not a fan of polished chrome but wondering what finish/color goes well with stainless countertops...bottoms will be rift oak natural stain nd uppers will be white.

other info: Floor color: charcoal gray, wall color is undecided, appliance are stainless steel and countertops are real stainless steel brushed finish.

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Fori

last year

I've had 3 different SS countered kitchens. One had brushed nickel hardware (matching the look of the original plumbing finishes in the 1920s house), one shiny chrome dishes (to go with the midcentury house), and the current kitchen started with brushed stainless and now sports black for no good reason other than I like it at the moment. (I wanted to get solid walnut mushroom knobs similar to the mahogany knobs on my linen cabinets but wasn't up for the maintenance.)

Ignore the counter. Match it to the rest of the room. Or just have fun with it.

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millworkman
last year
Floor color? Wall color? Appliances? True stainless steel tops? What finish on the stainless steel?
beesneeds
last year
Stainless goes with stainless. If you don't like chrome shiney, you can go for something brushed like brushed nickel. Take a stainless kettle or a piece of stainless silverware with you to pick out your hardware. Stainless counters are the same color as the pot and silverware.

Though since you seem to be questioning there- do you not know if you have decided on stainless countertops, or you aren't sure they are actually stainless?
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Our stainless countertop will *hopefully* be in in a week to two weeks. So tired of waiting! Our kitchen island has a stainless top. Due to getting a stainless counter and not wanting to be too matchy-matchy, we're replacing that stainless top w/ butcher block (and to warm the place up a bit) but my point is that the 8 or so years we've had w/ the stainless island top have been FABULOUS DAHLING. It's hard to scratch in any noticeable way (beyond the tiny light scratches which are the patina for lack of a better word) - which is to say most people don't think to just start cutting on it and they'd have to cut pretty hard I think, to hurt it - and it doesn't easily dent unless you get the cheapest option (18 gauge, I think. You want to get 14 gauge which is tougher) and it's reflective and bounces light around beautifully. It's like a chameleon - it changes appearance depending on wall and ceiling colors and lighting and time of day. If you're going for the more period look, it looks so nice w/ marble and wood. Bla bla bla...I'm always sticking out my two thumbs up re. stainless countertops...kind of a broken record here! Lol! Let's just wait and see how much I like it when it's IN!! ;)
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Cora Beli
Original Author
last year
Floor color: charcoal gray, wall color is undecided, appliance are stainless steel and countertops are real stainless steel brushed finish.
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LS Design Studio
last year
It sounds like your space will be more of a modern style- we love the look of a matte black hardware mixed with stainless features.
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Diana Bier Interiors, LLC
last year
Brushed stainless steel or black.
millworkman
last year
I would use brushed stainless steel pulls then.
beesneeds
last year
Brushed stainless is classic then. You can go black matte if you want to be more mod. You could go funky and do bright enamel or glass hardware. Depends a bit on what you settle on for wall color... and also a bit what your light fixture choises are.
la_la Girl
last year
Just want to say your counters will be so fabulous - we have a family friend with them in their amazing 1920’s estate and they are classic.
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Door Corner
last year
Satin Nickel (aka Brushed Nickel) would be ideal!

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Cora Beli
Original Author
last year
Thanks for all the input !

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