Stark white cabinets with all of your other warm toned choices is going to look like a mistake with your color choices. Stark white works with cool color choices or in a kitchen in shades of nothing but shades of white and cream. Your warm wood toned floors are setting the groundwork for the other colors used in the kitchen. The reds and tans work with the warm yellows of the wood. Stark white does not. Stark white would work with neutral black/chocolate floors and other cool or neutral toned color choices, but you indicate that you have the warm tan used elsewhere in the home. It doesn't have to be more than a couple of drops of yellow in the white paint to "warm it up". Your cabinets do not have to be "yellow" cream to work, just not pure white.

I like everything except the white tiled backsplash. I think you will be swimming in a sea of white. White appliances, white cabinets and --white tiles. I would pick out the one of the dark colors in your countertop and use that for the backsplash to give some contrast to the whole thing.

I agree with your designer. Beige has either yellow undertones or pink undertones and putting a pink beige next to red will show the beige as pink.

On the other hand pale taupe gray will go with the gray tones in your countertop and won't go pink because it has yellow undertones--which by the way will go with your floors. Personally I prefer taupe to beige.

My opinion only. I wish you luck with the reno

With all that white, it sounds like your intention is for things to blend into each other. Is that what you prefer? That granite is beautiful. I just would suggest that, since there are creamy tones in the granite that stark white tiles would look too stark for it.

I always see back splashes "speaking" more with the counter than with the cabinet - sort of as an extension. I would try a back splash that was in the same tone range as the BA, and maybe intersperse an accent of the SS to "talk" with the SS cooktop.

It's hard for me to judge color on the computer screen. I do better when I see light play on it. But, to be honest, I don't see those two colors with your granite, at all. Taupe, maybe. But I would keep looking. How much light does your space get? Is it direct sun? Is it warm western sun? Is it filtered through trees? So many things to consider with color. Not sure I agree that stark white can't go with a warm color - it all depends on your intention of the look of it - but it doesn't sound like it's in keeping with the rest that you describe.

I actually went to SW today and the designers there thought that while my cabinet was a white white , the Antique red and Kilim Beige would be better than the taupey grey. They said it is OK to warm up the coolness of the white cabinetry and with the warmth in the oak floor and the brown tones in the granite that the colors would work. If i used the subway tile I was goign to do metal medallions to pic up the mica in the granite which can go warm or cold depending on colors put with it. I have alot of afternoon sun coming in 3 skylights. The antique red is one that had been suggested by 3 SW locations. It is an updated deep old world type red almost what they consider a neutral red (if that is possible) The reason I considered going with white subway tiles and the medallions is the granite is so busy and I can use maybe a tile here and there in a color but it would compete w/ the granite to go too busy with the backsplash. Anymore feedback greatly appreciated as i am down to the wire!

I am a fan of some restraint when it comes to materials and finishes in kitchens. Often, IMO, people design kitchens as if the counters are going to be completely empty. Remember that the countertops are going to have plenty of things on them, including food, that will all add color and detail--as long as the whites of the cabinetry, tile, and appliances are good with each other, you won't OD on white (except when the kitchen is completely empty of contents, perhaps).