Design Moe Kitchen & Bath / Heather Moe designer These cabinets hide grime better than most, because there is an uneven glaze over the paint that mimics wear & tear...plus the paint/glaze finish is a high-end, smooth, soft finish with a nice "hand" that is easy to clean with a soft cloth and dish soap.

Design Moe Kitchen & Bath / Heather Moe designer The glass is seedy glass.
We get it from the local glass company. Sometimes it is called Seeded Glass. You will find that they sometimes also have something called "Seedy Swirl" (which is a heavier pattern), and they often have a light seedy as well as a heavy seedy glass. We usually go for the lightest pattern because in a traditional kitchen such as this one, we are looking for a handmade, antique look, not a fancy-glass look.

Design Moe Kitchen & Bath / Heather Moe designer You know, it's really hard to make design decisions with limited information. Choosing the color of the cabinets depends upon so many other things, from the style of the home (modern and streamlined? traditional and masculine?) to the size of the room, to the colors of the floor and the walls. For this reason I can only say that either option you describe could work, depending upon the final effect you're after. I've done a painted black (or dark-stained) island with a dark-stained kitchen, with a white painted kitchen, and (as you can see in this photo) with an ivory paint w/glaze kitchen.
If possible, could you post a photo of your existing kitchen along with a photo of your favorite room in your home (to show your desired style)? Then add a photo collage of the different finishes that you are considering using in the kitchen. Post these 3 images to Houzz & then add your question to the design discussions, and you will probably get some interesting and apropos design advice.

lluedeke We are building so I do not have any pictures to post. Ive decided to go with dark stained cabinets, Bianco antico granite and contrasting light colored/glazed island. I think it will look good. Thanks for your comments back...nice to see designers respond.

Design Moe Kitchen & Bath / Heather Moe designer The faucet suite in this kitchen is by my favorite kitchen faucet manufacturer, Waterstone. They are a local company in the San Diego area, and they make the only fully American-made faucets on the market (other companies assemble faucets here with pieces from other countries and then call them American-made). Waterstone was started by a Navy guy so all the faucets have Navy names; the faucet in the photo is from the Annapolis line. Waterstone makes the whole kitchen suite, from filter-faucet to main faucet to air gap and soap dispenser, and they have 40+ finishes. They are available nationally and online.

rosar Can you tell me the name of the granite? Love the kitchen.

Design Moe Kitchen & Bath / Heather Moe designer Sorry it's taken so long to answer your question about the countertops. Neither surface in this kitchen is granite; the island is Jerusalem Limestone as Donna pointed out, and the cooking area that you are looking at in this photo is Emporador Dark Marble, Polished, with a 2.25" double ogee edge detail. They both look beautiful, it's true, but as I've mentioned in other replies on this subject, please talk to your stone fabricators about the challenges of marble countertops before deciding on surfaces such as these.

Kathryn Peltier Design This is not exactly the same, but very close http://www.signaturehardware.com/product15852

Design Moe Kitchen & Bath / Heather Moe designer Sorry it has taken me so long to answer your question. As I mentioned in previous posts about this kitchen and others, the sink is by Masterpiece Sinks. We used Masterpiece because instead of a "live" (ie, changing) surface on their metal patina sinks, they have a "lifetime" finish that is guaranteed not to change for 10 years. Our experience with them so far has been up and down: up because the finishes generally seem to last, down because the quality of the construction seems somewhat mediocre (top edges of sinks has been dented and uneven at receipt) and the quality of the construction process has been spotty (we have twice received the wrong apron design after waiting 4 weeks for manufacture). In addition we have had one finish failure, in which the metal surface coating of the inside of the sink wore off around the drain. In that case Masterpiece replaced the sink promptly, but the "remove & replace" installation work was a considerable headache, and it cost me $400-$500 for labor.

Rachiele, LLC This is another source for information on copper sinks: www.aboutcoppersinks.org

Design Moe Kitchen & Bath / Heather Moe designer Sorry it has taken me so long to answer your question. As I mentioned in previous posts about this kitchen and others, the sink is by Masterpiece Sinks. We used Masterpiece because instead of a "live" (ie, changing) surface on their metal patina sinks, they have a "lifetime" finish that is guaranteed not to change for 10 years. (In answer to your above question, the maintenance on a Masterpiece sink is to use a soft cloth and dish soap. Other copper sinks without the lifetime finish can be more delicate.) Our experience with them so far has been up and down: up because the finishes generally seem to last, down because the quality of the construction seems somewhat mediocre (top edges of sinks has been dented and uneven at receipt) and the quality of the construction process has been spotty (we have twice received the wrong apron design after waiting 4 weeks for manufacture). In addition we have had one finish failure, in which the metal surface coating of the inside of the sink wore off around the drain. In that case Masterpiece replaced the sink promptly, but the "remove & replace" installation work was a considerable headache, and it cost me $400-$500 for labor.