Seems like a perfect combo to me. I had a black fridge for years in our last house and loved it.

I think it would be fine. I do think all one finish is better, but black and stainless work. And a range that has a mix of black and stainless should help make them work together better. It is possible that future buyers would want to replace the fridge and microwave to match the stainless.

I think you can mix finishes and have a very smart look rather than cookie cutter - but you need to do it with some thought and intention to avoid "whatever was an open box or clearance" look. If you have any stainless of chrome in your kitchen (faucet, cabinet hardware, utensil crock, touches of stainless on countertop appliances or accessories, etc.), those little touches can help pull it all together. The range is more black trimmed with stainless than stainless, so I don't think that would bother me at all. The dishwasher is below eye and below counter level and stainless will call less attention down than black would. All honey oak and black would be higher contrast and some might see that as spotty -- dalmatian, if you will. People will love it or hate it, depending on their preferences (but your kitchen is something you should do for YOUR preferences). A three finish mix can be softer -- more of a calico (mixing canine and feline, but you get the visual, yes?) - so if this feels better to you, I'd go with it. Worst case, you might want to get a stainless accessory or two.

By the way, my kitchen has supposedly all stainless appliances other than the paneled dishwasher -- but my stainless ovens have black glass and a dark glass control panel.

Faucet is brushed nickel but I will be getting a new one when I do the countertops (will be chrome or nickel or something, no gold or ORB, as will the sink), toaster oven is stainless, will be replacing cabinet knobs, too. I do want to paint the cabinets; hopefully I will have the $$ left. There's one place that will take the doors and spray them while I paint the boxes (painted mine at the beach condo, so I can do it), or I can just do it all myself if I have to. Just depends on how much I end up having to spend on the appliances and countertops. If I didn't have to pay the $1500 this morning for my upcoming colonoscopy (diagnostic not screening so its OOP, haven;t met deductible for 2025), that would have been the money right there - LOL!

Ouch -- only thing worse that starting the year with medical procedures is being out of pocket and not having met the deductible for them. It sounds like your appliances and other touches will play well together -- with or without painted cabinets or a changed faucet. If you do wind up going DIY for painting cabinets, check out a specialty paint to make life easier and the finish better. I painted a cabinet (small dresser type) with the Sherwin Williams hybrid -- a little oil for durability but still has soap and water clean up. It has an odor, so you would want to paint when you can open up windows and air the place out. It's also a little tricky to work with - special brush or roller and avoid going back and forth - leave it and let it level kind of thing. But after it fully dried and cured -- amazing finish and really durable. I know BM has a cabinet paint also but have not used it. More a dealer issue than the paint issue.

Best of luck with the kitchen project and the upcoming procedure. Hope you get only the best news possible.

I used the BM Advance for the cabinets at the beach. Worked well but I think I will try something else I think this time as you have to wait 24 hrs between coats on the Advance. It took me FOREVER to get them done since I only had weekends!

For a visual, following are pictures of the kitchen in our basement where stainless, black along with birch treatment were included. We believe the wood was unifying.

All of my stainless appliances have swaths of black on them. My stove looks a lot like the one you shared.

I just looked at them, and think a black appliance mixed in would probably look just fine, because there is already a lot of black on every other appliance. However I'm saying probably just because this is one of those things where the details will really matter (at least to some people, ha ha!).

My other house came with all black appliances. They have pros and cons. Just be aware they do suck the light out of a room, and visually add more weight to a room than stainless, at least to my eye. I would not do a whole kitchen with black appliances again, for me. That kitchen is south facing and has huge windows and I'm still not a huge fan of the all black look. But that's just me, and again that's all appliances in that kitchen too. One black appliance mixed in with all stainless is a different thing, because stainless reflects the light better. IMO, of course.

You have to judge visual harmony, and that likely needs to be an in-person assessment.