Thank you all. Here are some photos with the pure white painted on a 11x17 piece of paper. I love the magnetic gray but my concern is it doesn’t work with the counters. The crushed ice seems to work better because it picks up the tone in the veining but if I go with the magnetic gray, I just want to make sure it doesn’t clash.

the darker one. Change things up a bit!

seeing all the elements : you really can do either. You have more info than any viewer can have because it's there in your space.

like the magnetic gray, think you need a different countertop that isn't reading tan to my eyes.

People confuse matching and coordinating. Magnetic gray doesn’t match your countertop, but it DOES coordinate with them beautifully.

Thank you! I think we’ll go with the magnetic gray. We went to go look at the full slabs of the quartz today and brought the doors. The magnetic gray actually looked really beautiful against it. Thanks for all the input!

They both still look good to me, but you are there and we aren’t. Are you set on different color upper and lowers? Just asking because it makes all other decisions more complex. If you’re open to same color upper and lowers it will constrain you less.

The magnetic gray is very magnetic... Loving your counter and floor options too. Can't wait to see this unfold.

I am set on white uppers primarily because we are trying to lighten everything up. We don’t get a ton of natural light so I’d like light cabinets at least on top. It definitely does make things more challenging but when we put everything together, it flowed nicely. We are doing our fireplace in white faux brick floor to ceiling so I think the white upper cabinets would balance our open concept living space. Hopefully!

Isn't it amazing what looking at the whole slab and the doors together does for your decision? You probably took one look at the composition and said "that's it"! As adalisa mentioned, coordinating is your goal, not matching, and that's difficult to do when looking closely at a small sample.

Thanks for sharing your project dilemma and happy that Houzzers could assist you with your decision. Best wishes

If you are trying to lighten things up....pay careful attention to your lighting AND to the kind of bulbs that you use. It isn’t just about the surfaces that you choose. Good choices! Good luck!

Thank you! I appreciate all the feedback. I’ll share after photos!

Please do share your “after” photos - I hate not seeing the final result!

Looks fantastic

I love the Magnetic Gray.

Very nice--good choice!

Mission accomplished! The kitchen looks light and bright, your choices blend well together, I love the faucet and pulls and knobs, too. Thanks for the “after” photo.

BTW, I think your flooring (the bit showing in the photo) looks great with the gold tone hardware.

lovely

@H S - so gorgeous! In one of the other post you have mentioned that you went with Calypso oak floors. Do you mind telling me what is the wall paint and trim paint color that you went with? I am debating between Cairo oak and Calypso oak. Cairo oak is backordered and Calypso oak seems a little too pale/ yellow in samples. I am very afraid to pull the trigger on Calypso oak.

We went with sw alabaster white for the walls and SW pure white for the trim. I LOVE alabaster white - so warm and beautiful especially in the sun. To be honest, I wish I went with Cairo. I love the tone of calypso - it’s gorgeous and not as yellow as I thought it would be, but I don’t like the painted bevel. It’s a personal preference but to me, it looks fake. I don’t know if Cairo has painted bevel but I would be careful with looking at photos online because you can’t really see the lines. If you’d like, I can send you photos of my floor so you can see them better.

Also Calypso is not as pale as the sample. I was afraid of that too. It’s actually very warm and I really do love the tone. It’s just the bevel lines that bother me.

Thank you so much for the input. I would love to see some pictures of your floor. Is there a way you can DM me that? Sorry, I am not very familiar with Houzz.

The tone of it is somewhere between these 2.

I also like that Cairo was the wider plank. It doesn’t look as busy.

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The floors looks warm and beautiful. They don’t look pale at all. Thank you for the pictures.

I can’t tell about the painted bevels from the picture, but the bevels do look more pronounced in your first picture. They still look beautiful though.

love the kitchen. I'd put up a bamboo shade in the window

Your kitchen looks fantastic! The lower cabinets look very warm and work well with both the floor and countertop. Enjoy it!

Thank you! Yes, I wanted to do bamboo / light weave shades in my dining and kitchen!

ES, you did such a nice job! love the colors.

glad to hear you want to do a blind. I photoshopped a few for you. (think about doing a pendant too,,,

I like this blind. and the white pendants. any way you could squeeze in some window casing?

plain roman shade in sage/gray color

ignore the sconce color, but I do like the look

the silouettes would look nice

blinds.com has a huge selection. you can see samples in HOme depot

Beth, wow! Thank you!! I love those and gives me some great ideas. Here is a photo of my island with 2 pendants. Do you think having another pendant over the sink is too much?

so pretty! it's up to you. it looks fine as is. (I actually have the same type of set up and debated on bringing in a pendant. ) since you have plenty of lighting, I think you can get by w/just some type of blind.

(what I would consider for you, is to bring in a salvaged type of vintage door! that would look great

you could always frost or 'mercury' the glass.

It looks like there is a recessed light right above your sink, so another light is t really needed. The window treatment ideas @Beth H gave you are great. I would only question the silhouettes since they’re hard to clean. A pretty fabric that complements your gorgeous color scheme in a Roman shade comes to my mind.
The whole room looks great.

I agree silhouettes in a kitchen will collect too much odor and grease and grime, based on my experience with them in a den.

It is possible to wash silhouette blinds. I did it years ago with my honeycomb blinds and know that others have done it with their silhouettes. I did it by immersing them in my bathtub with Dawn detergent, sloshing them around and changing the water until they got clean, then rinsed them in fresh water. Others have used hoses to rinse them. Allow them to hang dry and re-install. Check out discussion about this on Houzz. In other words, don’t rule out Silhouettes if you like them.

instead of the silhouette, maybe something like the Kombi blinds? Just trying to get that type of look.

However, I think with all of the solid and muted tones, a printed covering w/some colors may look better?

(and, I really liek the salvage pantry door too)

but I do like the woven woods too. you just need the right shade

this is a woven wood in a white tone. I think I like the wood tones better

a type of solar shade (they come in a ton of colors and prints) , shown w/a sconce

I also like this idea. find or make yourself a vintage stained glass or beveled glass piece that's framed to fit perfectly inside the window, and hang it like this. (look on Etsy. they'll custom make anything for you. I had one made for my bathroom window)

I love all these ideas! I really love the brighter, prints actually. There was something missing - I agree it needs a little color. And I LOVE the idea of a vintage door. I’ll come back and post photos of what we ended up doing. Thanks again!

I wanted to come back and post our before and afters! I have done anything with window treatments yet.

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Wow! that's 100x better.

Beautiful changes.

One of the best before/afters I've seen someone do on here! Great job.

(but I'll wait for that vintage door and the window treatment as the cherry on top! )

Can you post an after picture from this same viewpoint?

Wow. That kitchen has no relationship to the original. Looks fantastic!

This is all SO beautiful! Quick question, what is the quartz called? Thank you!!

I used a Sherrington Williams color called Anonymous 10 years ago. It is very similar to your green-grey. I still love it! It is a fantastic neutral.

Sherwin Williams