Thank you for your good ideas..
One other question, do you think that we
should have the cabinets glazed for an
antique finish?
We were thinking that we would probably not.

I know glaze these days is not as popular, but I think a glaze would help on the off-white cabinets. Especially because the cabinets have a lot of trim, and old-world details like turned legs.

It's a beautiful kitchen. Love the high ceilings, chandelier and stove mantle.

Since you have very light floors, I think your kitchen could look very nice too with a darker wood stain.

Thank you Mmilos.
I agree that dark would look beautiful..
However, I love the clean look of white/ off
white?
Do you think that it will all look too light with
light cabinets because of the light marble
floor ?

The cabinets seem to be a nice wood. I personally don't like to paint cabinets when they're as nice looking as yours. Once that wood grain is covered, some of the elegance of the cabinet is lost.

Paint the cabinets a white/off white like the white in your backsplash. I would leave the island as is or paint it like cabinets. Nice chandelier, a real star in your kitchen. Nice.

Thank you , Kevin.
I do worry about that as well.
However, I feel as though this color cabinet
dates the home.
Do you agree?

Fos5, thank you for your input.
We replaced the existing heavy chandeliers
With a large and small over the kitchen table
See attached photo of small chandelier

I think if you get a really good painter who does a top notch job on your cabinets then you will have a very nice rich look. I still do recommend that you either leave the island alone or paint it a darker colour. If you paint it white also you will have too much white. Im not crazy about the glazed look. Why don't you change the hardware to matte black . You could do a handle on the doors and a cup pull on the drawers all in the matte black.

Thank you for the good ideas!

Wow, that's a LOT of warm wood tones, particularly since from the surrounding photos it looks as thought you prefer whites furniture and have some painted pieces. (is that a flat black armoire I see?)

I realize I'm late to the party here but would love to see where you ended up with this project...I'm thinking you likely did something wonderful with the cabinet hardware...?

This is a high end kitchen and I don't necessarily agree painting would be the best way. If you were wanting to do a finish over the wood as it is currently. I would consider refinishing the island and make it it's own piece. Also higher a really good finisher for this if you decide to do it.