After about 5 years of renovating my house, including general woodworking and some furniture building, I'm starting to think about getting started on my kitchen. I've put off the kitchen for this long because I really want to be able to do the entire thing myself, and cabinets have long been my biggest fear. After a good amount of reading, I feel pretty comfortable building them, but there are a few things that no amount of researching and reading can comfortably answer. This will be a pretty modern kitchen, and I plan on building faceless/euro style boxes. A floating shelf I recently built using solid red oak has a finish that I'm very happy with and I plan to use it in the kitchen. I've attached a picture of that for reference. My biggest concern relates to materials. I'm thinking that because these will be faceless, my main concern for quality finish will be doors, drawer fronts, and exposed sides. I honestly like the look of flat front doors on euro style cabinets, and as of right now that's what I plan on going with. Should I use the same type and grade of plywood for the boxes and the doors/drawer fronts (with edge banding)? I don't know what the common practice is. What type of plywood should I use to achieve the finish I'm going for? There is a supplier locally where I can get anything from A1 down in a variety of species. Perhaps complicating the finish issue is the fact that I plan on a fair amount of open shelving in place of some of the upper cabinets. I'd like to do floating shelves similar to what I've attached, but I'm not sure I could do that with anything other than solid wood, at least on the front face of the shelf. Will I have issues matching the finish on, for example, oak plywood and solid oak? Before I go on any further, let me stop at my questions concerning materials because that is honestly the most overwhelming issue at this point. Basically, I'd like something that takes stain well and can be matched with solid wood that I'll be using on other pieces. I assume this is an issue on any face frame style cabinets since they are mix of solid and ply. This is probably a fairly basic issue, but it's one that is difficult to research on my own. I hope this long stream of thought makes some sense, and I appreciate any help (or requests for clarification).