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I prefer white as well. Still living with the bisque colored stove hood, it'll be replaced some day. The worst for me would be black.. My sister had all black appliances in her kitchen and it looked horrid....particular the fridge, this big black box uglified the whole open concept livingroom kitchen area..Finally praise the lord she redid her kitchen and went with SS,, which although not my favorite either,,it's better than black , or bisque or any of those other trendy colors.. Her kitchen looks great now with that big ugly thing gone.
 
I love white

But the yellowing (I know exactly what you mean). But I don't think it's dirt that causes it. I think it's the sun. My 2004 side x side fridge died in March. The trim around the water dispenser had yellowed.. It got the most light from the sun shining through the kitchen door. The dishwasher, oven, microwave, (all white) haven't yellowed at all, because the suns rays don't hit them like they do the fridge. This new sxs fridge doesn't look like it will yellow based on the texture, but I could be wrong.
 
My kitchen is a mix of colors.
My electric range is pastel yellow, since I need a 40” model I have to take what I find
I bought a new GE Artistry fridge in 2014, it is white. The sides are textured, the doors are smooth and handles are brushed stainless.
My Miele dishwasher is stainless steel, I bought a floor model and felt this would blend in more than the black one they had.

If I were to get new appliances I’d go for Slate from General Electric.
When it was first offered I talked a co worker into them instead of stainless, after 5 years of them they plan purchasing Slate again for their new home. Mom is also slowly changing her kitchen to Slate.
 
Agree with petek on the black refrigerator.  My sister did this as well, at that time she had a smallish ranch house like mine and the refrigerator was open on one side.

 

It just dominated the space.  Maybe if it had been enclosed on both sides with cabinets, or if it had been a bigger space overall, but as it was it was just too much!
 
We tried all Black appliances in the kitchen 18 years ago with a Black Amana 18 cf bottom freezer refrigerator, Black flat top, slide in Maytag stove and a SS Maytag DW, so not really all Black. But that fridge and stove made the kitchen seem dark and closed in. And the Amana fridge was the worst I’ve ever owned or used, bar none. Either the milk spoiled in a few days or all the produce froze. And it was impossible to level so the doors would swing closed properly. The Maytag stove was toast in about two years, the electronic board fried from using the self cleaning oven. The Maytag DW lasted for about 11 years, but the racks were crap,and began to rust through after about 18 mo.

We have all BOL White appliances,not because we couldn’t afford TOL, but because they perfectly meet our needs, I prefer simplicity and have never had positive outcomes by spending top dollar. And the kitchen is light, bright and cheery with the all White appliances, it seems like its bigger because of the reflected light.

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BOL White appliances

That reminds me of when we had to replace our cooktop.  My ex, who did 90% of the cooking, wanted a basic coil cooktop because that's what he grew up with.  We decided on a white BOL Frigidaire coil model.

 

The salesman at Sears argued with us for a good five minutes about how terrible it was.  "Nobody buys coils anymore, they are poor performing, hard to clean, bad for resale" and on and on!

 

Finally I told him to write it up and order it or I'd just order on the Internet myself, LOL.

 

16 years later and Frigidaire is still selling them (picture below), so somebody must still be buying them.  It has worked perfectly and it easy to clean.  Not much to go wrong!

 

 

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When I bought my house 20 years ago we redid the kitchen and went with all white....it all yellowed.  I gave the microwave to my MIL and bought a new black one.  My SxS fridge handles yellowed...MIL bought it and I bought a new black one like it.  Trash compactor was white...control panel turned yellow...found a practically new black Kitchenaid one on CL for $50 and gave the white one to Goodwill.  My new self-clean gas range is black.  My Maytag dishwasher was already black and my "new in box" KUDI23 is black.  All my cabinets are white. It's a good contrast mix in there.  I know it's the UV light that turns things yellow because my fridge and microwave don't get sunlight but the fluorescent kitchen light shines right on them.  My mother's white SxS fridge has yellow handles now too from the same kind of light.  She wishes she had bought a black fridge like mine now.  As long as I can get black, I will.  I don't really care for stainless.
 
I think I might switch to bisque next time around, if bisque is even available in 2020-2030. Probably not. Stainless will be the new BOL and some weird color/finish/material will take its place. I think I want to go for a premium 1990's look, complete with track lighting, light oak cabinets and white tile countertops. Yes, I want to make my kitchen look like it's right out of 1997 in 2030.

Of course that would be like someone installing avocado appliances, marigold laminate countertops and patterned linoleum in the year 2000, but I'm getting bored with the typical 2010 look of my kitchen, even though I updated it from its original builder-grade early-2000's design in 2014.

One thing is for certain. I will never buy black stainless, slate or fingerprint resistant stainless. I'm not confident that any of those finishes will hold up. As for black stainless, there was a Samsung fridge with it at Lowe's and the lacquer was peeling away from a scratch near the handle. I later learned that black stainless is lacquered, as is slate and fingerprint resistant.
 
Louis

Your not the first to tell me so I am guessing its my Mac thats doing it as I can see the logo in the corner but no text....

Thank you

Austin
 
In Europe at the moment full stainless is kind of gone out of fashion again. We just did a kitchen and everything is back to 100% integrated, flat cabinetry, painted surfaces, no strongly visible handles (we used stainless bars across the full edge of the doors, no visible dishwashers or fridges and cooking appliances are very black glass and small accents of stainless steel on handles and so on only. Also more classic looking LED controls - reds, oranges Etc.

On one side of the kitchen were we have full height cabinets (6 * 600mm wide) we built in a pair of Miele wall ovens and finished the cabinetry with a false wall above and to the side - to give a totally flat look. Then used Philips Hue lighting to create some effects ...

All about making it look like part of the wall to create a sense of airy open space and zero clutter, even though it's quite a big space or just feels somehow more relaxing to me anyway, but I'm a huge fan of minimalism and modernism.
 

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