I considered doing this....I love inset, but need every inch of space I could get, so I was going to go with frameless for the bulk of my kitchen and my hutch was going to be inset and a different stain. As it turns out, I ended up purchasing a piece of furniture instead of building the hutch out of cabinetry.

Any, I don't have pictures, but I definitely think it could look good if done with purpose.

I did this. It looks fine to me...my peninsula, across from the long side of an "L" is dark green stained pecan, and the L is frameless cherry-look stuff (I refuse to admit what it is). Having the peninsula stained it looks so different anyway...sorry, no pics...

I saw this done in a showroom for Plato cabinets. Frameless base cabs and inset wall cabs. It looked fabulous. They may have some examples on their website.

I think a lot of combinations work if they have reason for being different or some kind of structure in their differences. Both of the above examples make sense. Just mixing them here and there would not.

We are going to have both in our kitchen, as we have one wall in our kitchen that is kind of recessed, so the cabinets look kind of like a built-in hutch. We are keeping those and changing the doors to glass with the french panes. The rest of our cabinets are IKEA with custom painted doors.

No pictures, yet. But I think it will look just fine.

We are doing frameless on the perimeter (we have little "fillers" between each cabinet so it looks like more of a framed look-- the Crown Point designer suggested this and it looks really good.

We are getting inset on our island. Almost went with inset in our hutch-like baking center as well, but I keep a lot of flour around (150+ lbs at a time) and really need all the storage space I can get in that zone.

do you have any photos, danielle?

jenswrens,
No pictures of my kitchen yet, but I can take some in March! We are treating the island as if it were furniture, not cabinetry... so, it is a different color, will have a different top and it is inset. Same with our hutch-like baking center, but we opted to stick with frameless there for the reasons I mentioned above.