i think it would look great. in our other kitchen (very modern), we did grey, high-gloss lowers and high-gloss white uppers-- we loved it. we ran into a few decisions where our floor-to-ceiling pantry cabinet was, but we made it white and had it next to our white, floating-glass fridge and it looked great.

i'm sure cherry and white would be fantastic-- we considered it for ours, but i'm not sure we'll put uppers in this house.

good luck w/ your decision.

Check out aktillery in the FKB...I have always loved the way
she used light uppers on dark lowers...I'm sure you'll find more
while your there!
vic

hope you get some pictures!!! the person i remember was a few months ago so hopefully they still check in.....aktillery's looks wonderful though!!!

I don't know if you would call mine dark lowers, but I had cream uppers & medium green lowers.

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The rest of the photos are in the finished kitchens blog under mfrog's kitchen.
I'm doing my new kitchen with cream upper shelves & dark green lowers. I'm just starting painting today or tomorrow.

I'm afraid I have to differ. I like mixing between main kitchen and island, but I think mixing within top and lower looks disjointed. Maybe other pictures would change my mind, who knows?

I agree with Allison. Have you considered doing most of the kitchen in the dark with a lighter hutch-like unit (with a different, perhaps matching beadboard type backspash to unite them)? I love to see them mixed like that.

Hope you find some good pictures.

Someone who had dark stained lower cabs & light painted uppers posted back a few months ago. She was trying to find a close match to the mitered door style of base cabs so she could replace the painted upper cabs with stained cabs to match the base ones. As I recall, they had recently purchased the house & the cabinet builder was no longer in business, hence the search here. Obviously, she did not like the look. To be truthful, I did not care for it, either.

allison: i never thought i'd care for it either, until i saw this pic:

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I have a very small kitchen and I love having an espresso stained bottom cab for my sink cab and the rest are natural maple. If my kitchen was bigger and I had more $, I probably would have done all the bottom cabs in espresso and the uppers in white (or cream to match my granite.)

I got the inspiration from the show Room Service on TV which did a French bistro look with black lower cabs and upper cabs in white. Marble tile (24 inch) counters and back splash. It was gorgeous!

Inspiration kitchen

This is the only picture I could find in my photobucket that shows both upper and lower. I used a cypress stain on bottom and tops are vanilla. It's when I was just finishing up the kitchen. I can't believe there was snow on the ground. UGH!!

I love this look Im just about to do mine and will post photos when done, doing white uppers and dark lowers, black or cherry not sure yet. Floor is concrete so Im thinking black.