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Thank you. I was looking at the photo, enlarged, and I thought they were metal base, glass fronts, which is what I'm looking for. It's not the best photo and one would need to magnify it to see the cabinets clearly -- from what I can tell, although much of the kitchen is traditional, they have upper cabinets on the back wall that are contemporary, glass faced; I like to mix traditional and contemporary. My lower cabinets are maple with a black granite top and I want to replace the closed upper cabinets with either stainless, metal shelves and/or cabines w/glass fronts -- because the kitchen is a small galley style, want to push the upper storage back to the wall as much as possible. Thanks for you help.

From a distance, those look like oak frame cabinets with a Shaker-style door with inset bead. The frames are painted black, as are the toekicks. My guess is that something like this is custom or semi-custom. That's going to be a lot pricier than Ikea.

If you're looking for something in the Ikea price range though, you could try the more traditional Fagerland, which is pine. You could prime and paint the edges of the cabinet doors for a similar look. Ikea's cabinets are frameless, so you won't get an exact match.

Check out the finished kitchens section at Ikeafans.com for an example of someone who painted their Fagerland cabinets.

Hope this is helpful.

P.s. It's not the lower cabinets, but the back wall upper cabinets that I'm looking for. Yes, I agree, the lower ones are rather traditional, but they have mixed it with sleek contemporary uppers, next to the refrigerator. They have a very thin frame, black, and are almost the front is almost all glass.

Those uppers are really hard to see, but splitting kitchen cabinets between a hickory/cherry wood grain and a bluish/greenish finish was HUGE in new kitchens a few years ago -- so I think the uppers are the same wood cabinetry as the lowers, in the darker color of the lowers, with glass doors.

Can't help with the brand, though. Kraftmaid did The Look, but they don't have the wide borders around the doors.

D'oh, I thought you were asking about the base cabinets. Are you looking for stainless steel metal cabinets with glass doors? Those will be way more expensive than just getting regular wood cabinet carcasses and switching out the doors with glass and metal ones, though.

If you want a source for aluminum doors that look very similar to stainless ones, check out Maplecraft USA. They do custom sizes in a few different styles and they're much more affordable than stainless:
www.maplecraftusa.com/HTML/aluminum.html

For a list of kitchen manufacturers that do that kind of modern look go here and scroll down to about half way:
http://2modern.blogs.com/2modern/kitchen/index.html

Thanks Keri, Wende, Jamie for your suggestions, help! I think I've found a good resource in the site Jamie led me to -- the cabinets called "Cult" are very similar to what I'm looking for : ) L

Keri beat me with Maplecraft but here is another source of glass/metal frame doors.


http://www.maplecraftusa.com/

http://www.element-designs.com/

The cheapest method would be to replace your own doors with new ones and paint the old cabinets to you liking.

Keri, just checked out Maplecraft and never thought I'd find that look there! They offer varying widths on the aluminium cabinet frames and I really like the Profile 1.

WOW, this is such an amazing site, so much talent, knowledge -- thanks to all who responded!! L

Thanks, Ron, I'll check out element-designs as well! L