white kitchen with stainless steel appliances

#White kitchen with stainless steel appliances upgrade#
#White kitchen with stainless steel appliances professional#

#White kitchen with stainless steel appliances upgrade#

We never recommend designing around the older appliances if you have plans to upgrade all your equipment within 5 years when that time is right. So, if you are on a tight budget, it makes more sense to mix your older white appliances with newer stainless-steel appliances.

#White kitchen with stainless steel appliances professional#

A 36” six burner stainless steel range from Viking starts at $6200 and can be over $11,000 for the professional series. For example, a new 36” French door refrigerator from Samsung today starts at $2600 before you add all the bells and whistles. Don’t let appliance costs stop you from starting your project. But many of the luxury kitchen appliances can cost to much when you are ready to move forward. You will see that in most of our modern kitchen photo galleries, stainless steel appliances shine. I suspect the hype got lost as they rolled this out to all the other brands but we still see the finish in the higher end refrigeration products, but they don’t seem to be using the description, White Ice anymore. Whirlpool is such a large company with over 10 brands like Amana, KitchenAid, Jennair, Maytag and several you never heard of that are popular in Europe and Latin America. At that time, we saw many ads and technical sheets that were promoting the benefits of White Ice and Black Ice finishes. The White Ice Finish offered a rich, glossy finish with stainless steel handles.

In 2012, we saw Whirlpool introduce a collection of appliance finishes that we really loved. When it comes to cooking, I lean more to the professional look of stainless steel and painted enamel finishes. Please don’t misunderstand, I really enjoy many of the classic white and trendy “White Ice” finishes for refrigerators, dishwashers and cleaning appliances. I believe Grey plays very well with white and stainless steel colors schemes. I do believe that mixing stainless steel appliances with white appliances can work with most wood stained cabintry and we love the grey painted kitchen cabinets trend we have been riding for a few years. But 60% of our customers want white kitchen cabinets today. These wood panels do a wonderful job of disguising the off-white color appliance because we can paint them the same color of the new white kitchen cabinets.Īny other color cabinetry makes our job of mixing appliance colors much easier. On occasion we have suggested custom appliance panels. Stainless steel (black or steel color) works best with white cabinets. If you are looking to upgrade to a new set of white kitchen cabinets, the older off-white color you may have for a dishwasher or refrigerator can be the struggle we encounter.

Mixing White and Stainless Steel Appliances There are several occasions though where a customer upgraded to a very expensive white kitchen appliance that they are not ready to part with. Stainless steel appliances play a dominant role in many of the modern kitchen photos we feature on this blog. High end kitchen appliances these days have taken advantage of “Smart Technology” and transformed the look and feel of today’s kitchens and the way we approach modern kitchen design features.

I found this image some time ago…not a good look, especially with white cabinetry. But deliberately mixing a stainless-steel stovetop for example with a white oven just will not work. Blending kitchen appliance colors gets a little tricky but if you are not ready to upgrade all of your larger kitchen appliances due to costs, we can all understand that.