My vote is for the antique, it would look elegant against the white.
The other seems too dark to me.

Nice cabinets and layout. I like the golden mascarello. But both are pretty and either would look lovely. Enjoy your new kitchen!

I like golden mascarello, love the cabinets!!

Thanks for the feedback! I also wanted to add that our appliances will be stainless....and knobs, pulls, and faucet will be brushed nickel.

What is your floor?
I prefer the antique one, but the floor choice could change things.

I like the way the Antique picks up the brown in your floor.

I like the Golden Mascarello much better than the Antique!

I have white cabinets and a laminate countertop with a similar combination of colors to the Golden Masc. in my laundry room and I think it's a lovely contrast.

The floor is a dark brown color. Here's a better shot of it when it was being installed:

I like the one on the right.

our kitchen in our old house had true white cabinets and we put sapphire blue on them, which is similar in darkess to the one on the right, and it definately looked good.

but then again, I'm not as big a fan of the tan countertops on white cabinets, so I would lean more towards the darker anyway.

I'm a short term lurker and have already gained lots of great info from this group. I love the Antique Mascarello with the white cabinets. I have the Antique, but my cabinets aren't painted yet so I'm particularly glad to see it for real! My cabinets will be KM Acoustic White; my floor is a pecan wood laminate and walls are avacado green. My backsplash is beadboard, which is an idea I also got from this group.

Thanks for being so free with your ideas and pictures!!!

Golden Mascarello. I like the deeper contrast.

Since your floor is a deep color, I'd stay with the antique one. The floor will recede visually, and your upper areas will be lighter. Something about it looks friendlier to me and I usually shy away from brown tones (except for antique furniture and hardwood floors). For me to pick a browner tone, it has to be exceptional, lol....

I like the golden, beautiful kitchen!

Thank you so much to everyone for the feedback! Garden Web is a great resource! I have to say, I think I am leaning towards the Antique. But honestly I think I would be happy with either one...I'm just ready to move into this house! Thanks to everyone on the compliments on the cabinets....they are from Shiloh.

It's a beautiful, happy, bright, light, spacious room and I prefer the one with the dark spots, or darker spots.

I much prefer the golden esp. with your floors, the other seems so peachy.

Thanks again for all the feedback. I love reading everyone's thoughts.

mikomum, I too agree that the antique could come off looking too peachy.

I've spent TONS of times googling white kitchens and reading up on what "goes." On one blog written by a color expert she wrote, "Black goes with white, but in my opinion browns go with cream" After much thought and tons of pictures I realized that most of the white kitchens I love have black toned countertops. Which took me back to my husband's first choice, Formica 180fx in Black Fossilstone in a honed finish:

As of right now, this is the one.

the lighter one on the left...reason: your floor has a darker look and the darker counter will compete..when you walk in the room-dk on the floor then as the eye moves up a lighter feel sets in-nicer to deal with...more inviting.

Yep, go with the black. I agree with the color expert. Browns beg to be with warmer tones, that's why they do best with slightly warmer whites, like pale creams. If you're going high contrast, it's best to go really high contrast. I think the black fossilstone will look great.

I agree with Herbflavor. Don't have two darks taking up so much space in your kitchen. I like the Antique Mascarello by a hair--both of those are nice.

I agree with the color expert and controlfreakecs -- go for the black. It looks gorgeous!!

(Of the first two, I preferred the one on the right because the greater amount of black provided a better contrast which, like you said, is what I most love in all the beautiful white kitchens I have seen.)

the golden. the light parts in it will be pulled out with the white cabs, the brownish parts will pick up/go with the flooring and the goldish colors in it will give it a pop.

Golden. I think it goes with your floor better. But since Golden is a fairly dark surface, I'd be sure to have undercab lights. Lovely cabs!

Golden Mascarello! :)

Golden, or that black one you just posted!

I am glad you found that post. I found it, but too late. It was so hard matching a backsplash with Dove White cabinets and very brown toned giallo granite. My advise is to now think about your backsplash now. What is your over all vision?

ellendi, we really would like to do a white subway tile backsplash down the road. Right now, building this house has killed our budget (which is why we are doing the laminate instead of stone.) I hope to replace the laminate with a stone countertop of some kind within the next couple of years at which time we will do the white subway tile backsplash. I have reluctantly agreed to the old 4 inch laminate backsplash until then.

I am so glad I returned to this post.
I love your black choice.

Have you seen the Basalt Formica laminate? It looks
like soapstone.

Here is a Laminate with browns in it. I happen to love
black but if you find browns to be what you and your DH
love. You can see it can work.

boxer, I'm so glad you returned too! I've been looking at lots of pics of white kitchens/black counters here on GW lately and I've seen pics of your white cabs and black granite and it is lovely! So glad you like the black fossilstone. I'm about 95% sure that's what we will go with. I'm just nervous b/c the only picture I've seen of it in a kitchen is the formica stock photo...and it was not on white cabs.

That pic of the basalt slate laminate counters looks great! I never would have guessed that from the tiny sample we looked at.

I love the Black Fossil Stone!

Woops, sorry, didn't notice this thread was three years old... Perhaps my comments will still be helpful to someone else...

For other readers, since you now seem to be leaning towards a black or charcoal based countertop: I could certainly be wrong, but it seems to me that you have your Mascarellos labeled backwards, or it may just be the way the photo is taken; I believe the Antique (with more white, less gold) is on the right and the Golden is on the left (with more... gold).

I used the Golden Mascarello in a house I recently remodeled (photo attached). It went well with the wood cabinets and the beige paint in the adjacent dining room (and the off-white color of the island). I am re-doing my sister's house, so she can sell it, and we are considering the Antique Mascarello because she has white cabinets with brushed nickel trim.

I am a real fan of the Mascarellos. Formica also makes a Crema Mascarello that is white and off-white with gray granite streaks and a hint of tan and brown - we used this color in the bathrooms (of the house we remodeled).

Your kitchen looks very nice; IâÂÂm sure it will turn out well.

This post was edited by DelsFan on Fri, May 23, 14 at 9:37