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[quote=Anonymous]I think the wood would look great with the ivory cabinets, but wouldn't work with the stained dark wood.  It would look too matchy if that makes sense.  I tried googling to find a picture of wood tops on wood stained cabinets to see how it looks, but all I could find was wood on ivory, white or other painted color cabinets (not stained).  I think the reason why I couldn't find this was because it's not done very often, perhaps because the two don't work together.  You also rarely see wood as the perimeter countertop, it's usually only on the island.  So if you had an ivory island with stained wood perimeter cabinets, I would definitely say do the wood on the ivory island.  However, I'd worry that it would look funny to do wood on the perimeter and something else on the island.  I know this doesn't help!

The two materials that I think would look best on ivory plus dark wood stained would be something black (soap stone, honed granite, black corian) or something with cream or golden shades (a quartz, marble or stained concrete).  Other than perhaps the corian, I don't think any of these would be cheaper than granite.   While I'm not a fan of granite, if you like it, there are many shades of the lower cost granite (Carioca Gold, St. Cecilia, Giallo Ornamental) that would work with your cabinet combo.  If you shop around and stick with the basic edge, I think you'll probably be able to find the granite for less than you think.  I'd really look at your budget and see if you can swing something nice for your counters.  You don't want to renovate your kitchen, then kill it with a cheap looking countertop, since that is probably the single most prominent thing that jumps out at you in a kitchen.

We just finished a major renovation and I never would have imagined how stressful it was making all the selections![/quote]

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