Mix gloss white with inframe kitchen

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I'm in a quandry and I have to decide.... (sorry - long!)

Rural house, but the kitchen is in a modern end of the house so no architectural features as such - just good views.

I think an in-frame kitchen might look too country, plus as there are a lot of windows and we have a full height fridge, the layout is pretty limited and I think the in-frame will be too limiting. Basically an L-shape with fridge, 600 unit, 900 range, 600 face of corner unit on one length. Then along the other length, an 800 drawer unit, an 800 unit to house the sink and waste (window above), free-standing steel dishwasher, then a 600 unit at the end.

And then a peninsula between 2 low windows which are on the wall opposite to the range.

The floor will be engineered oak, probably stained quite dark.

I'm thinking of fitting Ikea type abstrakt white gloss units on the base units so I can have drawers and a decent corner solution. Also the fridge is white so I hope it will blend in a bit. Then either a honed granite or lighter composite worktop. The island and an wall units can then be a painted in-frame type design - myabe in quite a strong colour as a definite 'offset'.

Is this going to look great in a slightly eclectic unfitted kind of way, or just odd??

Personally whenever I see this sort of thing in kitchen adverts in the interior decor glossies I go . I do love a bit of eclectic contrast - antique bits and bobs and architectural features with funky modern lights, sofas etc, but I'm just never convinced by the two-kitchens-in-one thing. To me it just feels like standing in the middle of a kitchen showroom, between two different installations. I'm super fussy though - I don't like it even when people have the same units but two different worktops.

Having said that there's lots of things where I'm far too staid and I see someone else doing some funky eclectic thing and think I wish I had thought of that . So maybe your idea would look great!

I know - that's what I'm worried about, although I don't want it to be too 'matching'. Usually someone, somewhere has done something similar before but I can't find any images online.

I'm thinking "industrial country" if that makes sense, because of the stainless steel parts, but I'm a bit worried the white gloss will just look a bit cheap if the whole kitchen isn't sleek and completely streamlined modern / integrated....

I think I know the sort of style you mean. Industrial country is what I always describe my own taste in kitchens anyway, but it may be different from your industrial country! (Sadly, I didn't realised what my taste was when we bought our kitchen, which I now hate )

What I would probably go for is quite traditional units, but v modern functional taps and fittings and then go really industrial with light fittings/stainless steel splashback etc OR the ikea gloss softened with simple, functional but some more traditional, but utilitarian stuff in the room - antique table and chairs, or lights etc.

The other look I really like is the ikea freestanding kitchen range. Think that achieves that look really well. Have you thought about open shelves on wall, rather than wall units?

Prob not helping at all, but enjoying playing at fantasy kitchen!

Yes - you're right. I could definitely do the more traditional units (eg. handpainted direct) with modern taps etc But that's quite safe and I'd quite like to be daring....

I suppose I think the floor will look quite tradtional in a dark wood so the white units will keep it bright and then we have some other stuff at the dining end of the room eg a dresser and a large deep cupboard that I bought in an auction which I could use for plate storage that I might paint a really unusual colour eg cerise or deep greyish blue. And then I could soften the walls with maybe steel shelves with baskets on for example, or painted open shelves...

Fantasy kitchen is great fun, but I'm going to have to make some decisions soon and that's the scary bit!

Would work well but think would work even better having the wood inframe at the base and gloss on the top/island.
wood looking/being the heavier door etc.
My dh has done this combo that way many times.
might even look nice casing the gloss wall and island in the same colour/wood as the inframe to bind the two together