Our completed kitchen...

Used Sapphire Blue Granite, which is mostly black with some brown and gray/blue areas throughout.    Had to have the farmhouse sink / apron front sink / farm sink (people call it by different names).  Wanted it to be a corner sink, which turned out to be a bit of a pain for the person designing the cabinets, but it turned out beautiful...many thanks to Bryant Herring / Herring Cabinets for sticking with the corner sink plan and making it work.  Cabinets done in Benjamin Moore Swiss Coffee...thanks again Bryant for giving me free rein on choosing my cabinet colors.  Gray glaze hand painted onto the cabinets.  Gray tile backsplash.  Blue deco.  GE stainless steel appliances....including our first ever convection oven and microwave.  Nicest kitchen we've ever had.  Check out the final product...

Cabinets for the new house - #whitekitchencabinets

Cabinets...seems like an easy thing to choose.  Not so much.  We went through four different cabinet makers before finding the perfect one.  The perfect one had the right combination of quality and price.  Andrew (builder) is very concerned that all aspects of his houses are very good quality and he insists on getting the best price for his clients. I honestly thought I would lose my mind by the time we got to the "right" cabinet maker...but I kept going through the process because I knew Andrew was looking out for our best interests.  In the end, we went with #BryantHerring (#HerringCabinet) out of Clinton, NC.  He did a great job...beautiful cabinets at a great price...and he did them exactly like I wanted.  Bryant is very laid back and easy to work with.  I was able to pick out the exact paint I wanted (lots of research time spent on #Houzz.com looking at other people's white/off-white cabinets).  Instead of #glazing the entire face of the cabinets with the gray I wanted, which would have changed the base color of the cabinet, he brush painted the glaze along the corners/lines/etc. He really cares about his product.  Our cabinets included 4 pull-out drawers, a sorting shelf (for flat sheets/pans), and a pull-out with 2 garbage cans (1 for garbage, 1 for recycling).

We went with dark stained wood for the master bathroom...