Bought stainless in our last house and regretted the purchase every day. The fingerprints, the cleanup and the lack of magnet sticking ability was too much of a price to pay for a so called higher end look.
We just moved into another newly built house and put all high end black Kithcen Aid appliances in and I wouldn't change them for anything. They are the shiny "piano" type black and not textured and fingerprints are a rarity - and with a 2.5 yr old hyperactive little boy running around, that is a miracle. We now have dark cabinets, dark granite and darker tile floors and I think the black really adds the the whole feeling of the kitchen; stainless would have stuck out like a sore thumb.
Just my opinion.
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