I dont have pictures that would show this, but ...

My Kitchen has polished nickel faucets, and polished nickels pulls on one run of cabs. I have another area that looks like a built in hutch, and it has aged brass. My island has ORB. My range has PN and brass. My breakfast room has wrought iron and mercury. My fridge has old fridge hardware, i think it looks like brushed nickel?

Maybe it will look terrible, lol. But my color scheme is very neutral and there is no pattern anywhere and I want an unfitted look. So I think it will work.

Whether it will work for you depends on the style of your kitchen. Do you want unfitted, or sleek? Do you want it to feel old?

I think mismatch is always more interesting if you can pull it off.

I think it will work well, but that is just a matter of opinion. Chrome is excellent for faucets and wears the best!

In my world, stainless steel and chrome are almost synonyms except that one is shiny. The only one it will bother is someone whose friendship does not really matter to you.

It was never considered necessary to match faucets and, say, cabinet hardware. Think about all the old vintage kitchens with wooden, crystal or black wrought iron cabinet knobs, all paired with chrome faucets. So the idea of mixing is fine, as long as the individual materials work together.

That said, personally I do not feel chrome and nickel go well together. They are too similar, yet different. Nickel is brown. Chrome is blue. The chrome makes the nickel look dirty, the nickel makes the chrome look cheap.

I have satin nickel pulls, stainless appliances and chrome faucets (main and cold water) and soap dispenser. I think it all works together well.

I think chrome faucets are classic and will go with ANY hardware. It was the only one people used for years. It's kind of like that's what you'd EXPECT to be there. Just my humble opinion.

I don't have photos since we're not 100% finished yet, but we have a chrome faucet with polished nickel hardware and it's completely fine. (We actually have that setup in our bathroom, too.) I don't think people expect faucets to match hardware or appliances, for the most part. It *would* bug me to have, say, a polished chrome faucet and a polished nickel air gap right next to it, because you'd notice that they were different. But a faucet's not likely to be right next to any cabinet hardware so that's really a non-issue. HTH!

I have SS appliances, satin nickel pulls/knobs, and a chrome faucet. I think it looks beautiful! I think chrome faucets are classic and timeless.

I have brushed satin nickel pulls, stainless steel sink and appliances and chrome faucet and soap dispenser, like many others posters above. I stressed about whether to go matchy-matchy on everything and I'm glad I didn't (thanks in part to reassurance from GW'ers!). The chrome adds a bit of bling around the more matte sink and appliances and I LOVE it.

I don't have finished pictures yet, but you can see my chrome faucet, SS sink and nickel pulls here:

Here is a link that might be useful: NON- matchy matchy metals!

Thank you all for the comments! We've decided the chrome fixtures just feel right -- so we're going for it. We will check once again that we still feel the cabinet hardware doesn't clash.

Anyway, thanks again for helping to calm our pre-demo jitters!