What color cabinet hardware would look good with these cabinet colors?

Question

We are painting our upper kitchen cabinets a cream color and our lower cabinets black. All of our hardware on doors and drawers are 3" pulls. We got a great deal on flat black hinges, so we bought enough for the whole kitchen.

With the hinges unifying the cabinets, could we get away with using cream colored pulls on the black cabinets and black pulls on the cream colored cabinets?

If you think we should use the same color hardware on both sets of cabinets, what color could we use that goes with cream and black paint and black hinges?

Thanks for your help!

I should have said too that we are going for a traditional look rather than a contemporary one.

How would aged bronze pulls look with these colors?

Answer 1

The hinges and the pulls should match, otherwise you get a very choppy look, like you ran out of one and had to buy the other.
Use black pulls. If you can, when you paint the cabinets try an aging technique that will allow the low points of the cabinet, moldings etc to have darker glaze so you haven't got a huge high contrast switch from the top to the bottom cabinets. High contrast is a sign of contemporary design so using a wipe off black glaze on the upper cabinets will allow you to have the traditional look you want.

Answer 2

I would get the same color for all the cabinets - look for maybe clear knobs or silver w/ black accents, or even a ceramic knob w/ some color. I saw many on homedepot.com I think would work

Answer 3

i can't imagine a kitchen w/ black cabinets. you could try cream on the black and black on the cream.

Answer 4

I like the idea of black on cream and cream on black.