ikea cabinets refaced with walnut custom kitchen example

so here is a good example of what we want to do- although i think that using Marble would be silly- so we will probably choose cesarstone in white, we are thinking walnut veneer for the wood areas, but a dear friend who is a seasoned worker of wood has urged me today to consider real hardwoods for the cabinet slab fronts such as cherry or maple- and to look further at more cabinet / drawer base options ( and to forget ikea..). I knew it was sounding too easy last night