Are white kitchen cabinets trending down?

I wouldn't worry so much about trending. If this is a house you will be staying for a while I would concentrate on what you really like. If you like white cabinets theb go for it, but if you really darker ones then that's what you should go for. There are ways to make either choice look timeless.

I believe that white cabinets will never go out of style if YOU like them I am in the process of painting an entire kitchen of pine to white. I LOVE it, nice crisp, clean look. Doing sort of a farmy country, whatever I like look.

I agree with ACM. It is what ever you like and can live with. I love the all white kitchen. You can see the mess so you can keep it clean. It depends on your backsplash colors and the counter tops. I also like the grays white a white counter top. I have also seen white upper cabinets with a darker (gray or black) for lowers. It seems to give it a larger feel while staying coordinated.

You could mix wood lower with white painted uppers, my sister did that and it turned out stunning.

I just choose my new kitchen and I am going for dark brown on the bottom cabinets and white for the top. I did not decide yet for the back splash and the counter top.

Forget about "trending" - white kitchen cabinets are timeless regardless of trends, It's what you like and also what your home likes. The home I lived in previously with my husband had a light and airy high-ceiling kitchen with light floors and the pinky beige "whitewashed" cabinets from the 1990s. Had we stayed, I'd have painted them white. The people who bought the house gutted the kitchen and filled it with dark-stained cherry cabinets that went all the way to the top of the 10' ceiling, put in a very busy granite with extreme "movement" (think regular countertops plus a 4'x7' island), a busy backsplash, black appliances and and a busy tan floor. I got a chance to visit the house after they did it and even with the windows, it felt unbelievably claustrophobic and the house seemed to be crying "help". But everything they did was "on trend" (although toward the end of the trend). Since this is a major remodel which can't be undone, be patient and take plenty of time to search HOUZZ and other sites for pictures of kitchens with similar layouts to your kitchen or to what you want it to be and with white cabinets or dark cherry cabinets or combo colors. Pictures really are worth a thousand words. It's hard for a lot of us to visualize the finished kitchen without doing this, even if we have a designer helping us choose. Good luck!