BeverlyFLADeziner, thanks for the sample pic - that’s a beautiful kitchen!! What about the cabinet that’ll be above my fridge, bridging the two pantries.? It’s an upper, so I‘d assume white, but it would be odd if it were a different color than the pantries. Agree?

We did wall color for the talls here.

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White for pantry and/or fridge cabinet surround. That's what we're doing, I looked at a lot of photos and never love it when a floor to ceiling cabinet is the color of the lowers.

I did the opposite. Gray for lowers, fridge surround and pantry. To me the dark color was better. PLUS is easier to keep clean looking than the off white uppers I had. (This is a real estate photo and the pantry looks much wider than it actually is. I sold this house after I fixed it all up, I miss this kitchen!

I faced this same issue with my remodel. I wanted all the uppers in “oyster” and lowers “peppercorn”. Had refrigerator on one end and tall pantry on another with coffee station between which would have the peppercorn on bottom and oyster on top. The issue was what to do with molding. I did not like the idea of breaking up the trim color so I went with all peppercorn for that wall and changed the coffee station upper to peppercorn with glass inserts. My point hear is do you have molding and which color would you want. The answer might help you make the decision. I personally think the molding color should match the upper cabinet color. I have a small kitchen but posting two of the 3 locations with cabinets. Note for the oyster cabinets I did oyster trim while on the other side I used peppercorn trim. All the best.

I usually recommend that the tall cabinets are the same color/stain as the base cabinets on the perimeter. So, if you're using the darker color for the base cabinets, use it also for the pantry, fridge cabinet, and any cabinets that might have stacked ovens or other tall storage.

I love this discussion and both methods (fridge surround and pantry same as upper or same as lower) have made good arguments. We are getting ready to do this and I'm leaning toward matching them to the lowers but only on the two full height pantry cabinets that are anchoring the space; not if it's in the middle of the wall. There will be a deeper upper cabinet next to the fridge that is for the built in microwave and appliance garage, will the deep teal fridge surround transition nicely to the creamy white right next to it? Who knows. ALL the examples in the comments look really good!! So...none of you really helped firm up our decision. LOL. I'll post pic in the next few months or so when I've made the final decision!!