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<p>The remark about borrowing from Apple is soo funny considering Apple’s moved away from White for Imacs since 2007 and Macbooks a bit later in favor of an aluminum finish.</p>
<p>I think there was already a thread a while back featuring that article. </p>
<p>Stainless appliances are still what most people prefer where I live.</p>
<p>Old article being pumped relentlessly by paid links at the bottom of news stories. It never caught on.</p>
<p>Not in my book.</p>
<p>I hate white. It’s just ugly IMO</p>
<p>I’m buying black from now on–it suits my cleaning habits better.</p>
<p>I’m a fan of white here. I like how stainless looks in other people’s kitchens, but I prefer white. Just my preference. Luckily, DH agrees!</p>
<p>It is nice that both options are available. Thank goodness neither of us wants avocado green. They don’t make those any more (I hope!).</p>
<p>I’m a white fan also. I didn’t care for stainless because it became popular right when my kids were toddlers and the fingerprinting drove me crazy. Stainless has had a twenty year run, and actually I’m into bronze and other metallics now if I were redoing a kitchen.</p>
<p>You know how we look at a kitchen with formica countertops and those crazy green toned appliances and say “that is so 1970’s”. Well, in twenty years we will all be looking at granite countertops and stainless appliances and say “that is so 2010’s”</p>
<p>I think white may be the next stainless, but I don’t think stainless is done being stainless yet.</p>
<p>Personally, I like white and that may be what we get next. Our house came with stainless. I could take it or leave it. We must not touch it much, as we don’t get fingerprints. I wish it was magnetic.</p>
<p>I didn’t think Whirlpool was a premium brand. All the “luxury” brands have stuck with stainless. I have white appliances now and they’re nice and functional…dunno what the trend will be when I ever get around to redoing my 1959 kitchen (still got the original white gas cooktop with standing pilot lights). But, I will stick with what I think is most classic at the time. Right now, that’s stainless.</p>
<p>I like an uninterrupted color line in my kitchen, which is why–with white cabinets–white is the only option that works for me. I don’t like the look of wood-wood-stainless-wood (or whatever the mix is) when looking at the vertical surfaces from a distance–I prefer the appliances blend in. I had stainless in my last house and thought it was a royal pain to keep clean. </p>
<p>I also dislike the busy patterns created by a lot of granite surfaces. Much prefer butcher block or a simple corian with a thick squared-off edge. (Yes, I am picky.)</p>
<p>I just wish I knew what the next countertop material would be. I need new ones and for once would like to be ahead of the curve…</p>
<p>Our neighbor did a complete remodel & used this for surfaces.
I really like it.</p>
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I also like white, with stainless for accents rather than a dominant material.
I did see this finish in the showroom however, and it made the stainless appliances look dated & heavy handed.
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<p>The Whirlpool Ice line of appliances is nice. White with stainless accents, knobs, and trim. I almost got the Whirlpool Ice glass top range…very nice.</p>
<p>Most everything will look dated in 15-20 years. 
You just don’t want to go so trendy as to be dated in 3-5 years.</p>
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<p>One person’s dated is another person’s retro. </p>
<p>Live long enough and we’ll see avocado and gold make a comeback. </p>
<p>I’ve read some where that 50s furniture is becoming the new thing.</p>
<p>There is a theory that design cycles skip a generstion. You hate your parents stuff in which you grow up in, but like kindly grandma’s furniture where she served you cookies </p>
<p>And granite is from when dinosaurs ruled the earth. I hear it’s all marble now.</p>
<p>Personally, we went for formica–dared to be different–with a faux tin ceiling, whose fauxness is not visible to the naked eye.</p>
<p>Things could be considered " dated" or they could be considered “vintage” 
Having appliances that dominate your kitchen may be the way you want to go if you are a professional chef or want people to think you are.
But I want my kitchen to feel relaxed and airy and have the appliances blend in, rather than stand out.
Some people feel differently, my inlaws have a fridge that is the size of a winnebago compared to the size of their kitchen- but they change things as soon as they get tired of them, about every fifteen years or so.
My grandma had white appliances and her kitchen never felt dated to me.</p>
<p>^^ It’s true styles come back, but most often they’re tweaked just enough to tell a difference. For example, this thread talks about white appliances coming back…but the new ones are white glass…not the white textured finish of older models.</p>
<p>Mid-century modern is very current with Mad Men popularity. Some classic designs like the Eames Lounge chair, which is the same chair that’s been manufactured since the 1950s, are still popular. But that’s kind of an exception to the rule. :-)</p>