Have you thought about using panel ready appliances with custom panels to match your cabinets? That might be a good solution, though my personal choice in your situation would be stainless. Lots of farmhouse style white and cream kitchens I see on Houzz use stainless steel appliances. They are quite neutral, so the focus would be on your cabinets. White appliances would be my third choice as I don't think they will look as good as stainless against your cream cabinets.

I would also recommend using stainless appliance and bring an accent tile or hardware element to pull all together

There is a new type of finish called an oil robbed bronze

I think white appliances work best with white kitchen cabinets. If you put a cream color against white, it will make the cream color look a bit off and stained imho.

Thanks everyone for your opinions. I guess stainless is the way to go!!! I am curiouse however about the "oil rubbed bronze" that was mentioned. Does anyone have more info on this and where to find them?

Its funny you are bringing oil rubbed bronze - I was looking into that designing the kitchen couple of years ago and all people I talk to talk me out of it - to big of a maintenance problem... We used mix of stainless and paneled refrigerator and DW:
http://valdesignbuild.com/julie.dodge/

The bronze appliances were introduced by Jennair about six years ago, but haven't really taken off in popularity. IMO they just look brown:
http://www.jennair.com/flash.cmd?/#/product/JFC2290VEM/

go for SS, it's neutral enough and i've seen it in country kitchens, looks fine. The bronze's hideous, oranegish-- i am not surprised it didn't take off for Jenn Air!

The bronze is a definitely a different look, but I think it would be worth checking out in person. You just never know if it might be the color to click with the cabinets and/or the rest of the room. Good luck!

Love the versatility of stainless...it's a great fit for a homey country kitchen as well as a sleek contemporary.

I LOVE my Jenn-Air oiled bronze kitchen suite. i have the second-generation with the bronze/coppery handles (not stainless handles, as in first-gen). I'm not sure what the maintenance issues are. I've heard this on other forums but they are effortless to keep spotless.

They do not show fingerprints at all. They are a thousand times easier to care for than stainless. They are warm. I think they can look plain-old-brown if you don't have copper and bronze in other places, such as the backsplash (copper glass tile), sink (copper farm) and fixtures/hardware (ORB). Plan is for a medium brown cork floor, creamy shaker cabinets and a light, mottled granite. The kitchen was really designed around the appliances. :)

You can find pix on the Jenn-Air website or Google. Kitchen design firms generally show them on display. I think you really have to see them though to decide for yourself.

They never did take off in popularity, so no other manufacturers have picked up the color. I picked up mine special order through Sears. They honored their 20% off sale even though it was a special order. I picked up the microwave and range hood on Ebay, believe it or not.

I would not trade my bronze appliances. Good luck in your search!

p.s. Pix are not mine.

http://kslinteriors.blogspot.com/2010/02/kitchen-project.html

As a side note, Sears was significantly less expensive than the kitchen design houses and the same warranties apply.

Unfortunately white ice will not work. You probably will have to choose stainless or you can cover your appliances with the same material on your cabinets. I had stainless in my kitchen but because I had the Tuscan look, I needed to tone it down, so I covered my dishwasher with the panels. I loved the look.

You could go for color appliances. They could easily lean country.