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While I personally love the look of very sleek, plain, espresso cabinets, for the reasons everyone has mentioned, it's not a good idea to attempt to stain your existing cabinets. I also think the dark espresso cabinets would not look right with the lighter oak trim -- if I was looking at a house like this, I'd be thinking "Crap, I'm going to ...
Pickled oak. Like white cabinets, pickled oak is out of style but unlike white cabinets, pickled oak is dead. You can still find white cabinets being sold but it's nearly impossible to find pickled oak since every major manufacturer discontinued it. Let me give you a backround on this ugly color.
Then you can go Rutt Cabinets or worse yet... Poggenpohl is the most expensive cabinet in the world. Side by side your $10,000 Kraftmaid kitchen becomes $140,000 in Poggenpohl.
The cabinets are (SOLID) WALNUT and are beautiful with the bronzed glass. The shelves are MDF with Walnut Want to know how much walnut cost these days? A 4x8' sheet 1/42" with a paper back is $599.00 These cabinets are 3/4" thick This complete system cost me $6000 in 1980.
We have dark cabinets and went with antique brass, looks good. If you can't decide you can go to Lowe's or Home Depot and pick up a handle to see if you like it and the color, if not you can return it and try all over til you find the color style you want.
See how you feel when you first go in the kitchen in the morning or when you arrive home. The two kitchens are different. One is very modern and sleek, the other more traditional and country even. So it's interesting to see how grey cabinets and black countertops can work with either style. Which style do your cabinets look more like?
Put this in perspective- millions of homes were/are built with "particleboard" boxes on their kitchen cabinets - those cabinets often last 30+ years without a problem. The cabinet boxes aren't actually under much "stress" in normal use & if they get wet, all bets are off, just *exactly* the same as plywood boxes will get damaged by water.
I have painted the cabinets, or sometimes even painted and glazed, so then you can go ahead and fill it with wood putty, sand it and prime it and you will never know it was there. After you paint you can put the new hardware anywhere you want. Since you say you have to deal with it for a year or two I guess you plan to redo the kitchen at some ...
Due to a design flaw, we ended up with a 6 inch space between two base cabinets in our kitchen. Can't afford a $300+ unit for tray/cookie sheet storage. Closing the space with a filler would waste valuable space.
I got quotes from Home Depot and from several independent dealers. All of them had HUGE discounts off list price, but HD had other specials going that made me go with them. Not one of the independent dealers tried to tell me THEIR Kraftmaid cabinets were better (and I would have been skeptical if they had tried!).