If I were you, I would go with the birch/beech interiors rather than white. My kitchen cabs are birch/beech, and the cabs in the laundry room are white. The wood-look wears better IMO. Some of the white interiors and shelves also have a nubby texture that shows dirt a lot more. Unless you are specifically after a more mod contrasty look like Gaucho, I would think the wood would blend a bit better with creamy coffee (dark?) paint. Here's a pic of my wood interior together with the painted white doors. You cannot see the birch at all when the doors are closed, even when you're standing very close. My doors came from Advantage, and I got the factory-finish paint which was well worth the money. Installed 3.5 yrs ago, and today I have no chips or wear or anything, and they are very easy to keep clean. The few small strips of wood that I added later (around micro and oven drawers) and painted myself - on those, the paint has chipped and rubbed off a little. Factory paint = worth it. Advantage did my doors, drawer fronts, all filler pieces, cover panels, trim. l did have to give them exact specs (which I still have btw including spec drawings for hinge placement etc - email me if you want them). And I specified small tolerances between everything (I think 1/8"). I think you'll find that you won't even want or need edge-banding. I used it on 2 cabs, and that was only to cover the rough edge left on a deep cab that was hacked down. It was a bit of a pain to apply (especially on already installed cabs) and doesn't really look that nice (but it is better than rough particle board). I certainly wouldn't bother with a whole kitchen just to change the color of the cab edges, when the correctly spec'd doors already do a perfect job of that. This post was edited by jenswrens on Sat, Jan 25, 14 at 16:32

Oh yeah, good question. I should have explained that. We were thinking of using the short maximera drawers (2 or 3 of them), mounted directly to the cabinet door to create a pull-out akin to a Rev-a-shelf and we would store taller items there (like wine bottles or something like that) so we could see the contents over the side of the shelf.

New links for the broken links above: IKEA Hackers (some information) https://www.ikeahackers.net/ 4'' Broom Closet from Ikeafans) https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2467902/4-broom-closet-from-ikeafans Scroll down toward the end for missing pictures and instructions An Ikea hack - converting a drawer front to a door https://www.houzz.com/discussions/3948006/an-ikea-hack-converting-a-drawer-front-to-a-door Slide-in Range Top IKEA cabinet hack? https://www.houzz.com/discussions/3800470/slide-in-range-top-ikea-cabinet-hack Hacking IKEA cab for trash pullout https://www.houzz.com/discussions/3741545/hacking-ikea-cab-for-trash-pullout Another hack for a trash pullout https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2999950/can-i-hack-a-trash-pull-out-from-an-ikea-15-inch-depth-cabinet-base Scroll down to the posts by Bbtrix - the first is dated "April 16, 2015 at 9:27PM". The second is a set of comments beginning at "July 17, 2015 at 7:46PM". Update 07/24/19: Unlike GardenWeb, Houzz does not show times, they just show things like "X hours ago" or just list a date. I think they also fiddled with the times/dates overall. The first Bbtrix post is now simply "April 17, 2015". Search for "bbtrix" on the thread to find it. Several ideas for cutting down cabinets https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2687665/hacking-ikea-cabinets 

I used the Maximera with one of my custom cabinet. You just measure and put blocks on either side if it's too short.