I just got natural maple cabinets and my granite is gray with the tan/gold color of the cabinets mixed in....so I think gray looks good with maple....

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Also, check out this thread.... As always Boxerpups found great pics of maple cabs and counters and of course once again the stunning Rainforest Green granite belonging to Sixtyohno's at the bottom of the thread.

Here is a link that might be useful: Pictures of maple cabs and counters

Joanie...I can't get into your personal picture link. Drat. Thanks for your efforts though. I looked though the linked thread, there were some possibilities in there but I don't know the names or material they are. At least I know there's materials out there that I will like.

I looked today at Quartz (and a few granites) There were a couple that seemed to blend nicely with the maple, one I remember off the top of my head was Sienna Ridge from Silestone. I have not yet found a Cambria dealer and there seem to be some possibilities on their website too.

I'll keep checking back in case someone posts another idea!

Thanks~~

We have maple cabinets with a stain that Wellborn calls "light." It's a little darker than natural. We chose Colombo Juparana granite and are very pleased. It's the kind of granite that has swirls (or rivers?) as opposed to the more uniform, speckeled granite. It has some grey, a little black, some tan, ivory and bits of rust. I will post pictures when I can because I gleaned many ideas from GW over the past year. I'm sorry I can't do it just yet.

What about soapstone?

I have maple "toffee" cabinets and have ubba tuba granite (not sure if I spelled that right). Not sure what color of maple your cabinets are. But here's how it looks:

We were looking for a contemporary look and fell in love with Rain Forrest Green serpentine marble, a less vulnerable marble. It goes well with out maple cabinets.

I love sixtyohno's Rain Forest Green. We almost went in that direction. However, our maple cabinets were 14 years old and had turned more gold over the years. We were about to go with Blue Pearl when we saw this Golden Thunder and fell in love! It may have too much movement for some, but we like it -- a lot.

The down side is that it is more expensive than Blue Pearl and not as stable (as often is the case with stone with so much movement). It's been enhanced and sealed -- something we didn't have to deal with when we had a slab of Blue Pearl on our baking cabinet. But we've had this for five months now and I still smile when I walk into the kitchen. Kneading bread, rolling out dough for pizza, rolls or cookies works well. There are just a few pock marks, but they are small enough that I only notice them when I clean up after bread making and see them because of the flour caught there.

wow! I like them all!