The Finished Kitchen Blog has some kitchens (that have at least some black appliances and light cabinets).

Here is a link that might be useful: FKB

Perhaps this helps? My recently installed 'antique white' cabinets (no glaze) with my black/SS GE Profile range...plus my 'white' refrig -- not in the budget to replace a perfectly good refrig

You can just see a corner of my black dishwasher with off white cabinets and hardwood floor in this pic.

Have you thought about painting your appliances?
It can be done. Here is a link...

How stuff works, painting appliances
http://home.howstuffworks.com/home-improvement/repair/how-to-reface-an-appliance4.htm

And here are some pictures of black appliances.

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We will only have a black fridge with our off white cabinets (dw is white) and we are not quite done installing all doors, etc. but here are a couple pictures of it. The cabinets show up more white in the pictures, but they are pretty off-white in person.

Blondeziggy... We have since changed direction but initially we had looked at cabinets quite similar to the 3rd picture of Boxerpups entry. Not that the cabinets were the same but the fact that it had black trim on the cabinets, both top and bottom - quite striking actually, which made it seem as if the appliances were planned to be
black and not these big dark holes. I wish I could photoshop something for you but I am just not capable. One of these days!

What about keeping your alder base cabinets?? Two-tones kitchens are very in right now, then you could find a color (even the cream/white) for just the uppers, or even use open shelving instead of uppers. It would allow you to reuse some of your cabinets, and perhaps help the black appliances blend in better. Just a thought-- you'd be able to put the granite you have on hold in now, and worry about uppers later. But for what its worth, black appliances and white kitchens do look nice, its just getting used to it. HTH

Thanks so much for all of the pictures. They are very helpful to get a visual idea. I so appreciate everyone's help!

Boxerpups, I'm always amazed at the photos you have filed away. You are
amazing.

slush1422, I can't wait to see pictures of your completed kitchen. It is beautiful.

noebee1313, thank you for your suggestion. This was one of our original options, but the majority of the cabinets are uppers. Therefore adding the few base cabinets wasn't very expensive.

Here is a drawing of what the kitchenette is intended to look like. Its not very big but should work perfectly in the space.

Here are mine. And the granite is Santa Cecilia.

I'm hopeful this link will take you directly to the right photo, but if it doesn't you can see it by going to:

www.Facebook.com/ShowplaceFineCabinetry

Then go to photos, and find the album named "Burdick & Assoc." where there are about three photos.

Here is a link that might be useful: Showplace Facebook pages - Album

Sorry to be O.T. from this thead, but...

GMP3, I love your BS! Hope you don't mind that I shared your pic on "Peach's TB" thread. Yours is very close to what I had in mind, but I'm not sure my kitchen is big enough to pull it off. Does your BS accents continue past your sink wall? Also, my peninsula has the same overhang! We created the seat at the end, by getting a smaller base cabinet there. :)