You may want to google "yellow river granite". It has the tones you'd like and would coordinate with the right shade of yellow wall. I suggest you google it because no one example can do it justice. If you see a bunch, it will be a better representation.
Have you considered a green family for the granite? It may coordinate well with your other choices.

Here is a link that might be useful: yellow river granite thread

Put a sample of your light gray veiny in your kitchen with the cherry and yellow (samples) and look at them in your local light. Try to look at different times of day and overcast and bright, as well as with electric light day and night.

You might find they work together very well. They should in theory, though it depends on the particular one. I could explain the color theory and provide examples, except I'm tired. If you want to know, ask, but its how you like the samples in your own house that really matter in the long run.

My other suggestion, if that doesn't work for you, is to reexamine the stainless (which is also gray!!). I think even in a teeny tiny kitchen, you could do stainless for the main counters and a peninsula in wood for coziness. But you could also put a nice blotter on it for homework, and lift it off with the detritus contained for cleaning up or setting out food. Or you could make a pad to act like a tablecloth without the drops on the sides, maybe some rubber gripper feet to keep it from sliding. Roll it up and stick it in a drawer. Or you could make a plywood "desk" surface to fit, polished up nicely and backed with felt and or rubber gripper feet, which you can put on and take off depending on what you're using the peninsula for. You could even wrap that in a holiday paper tablecloth and tape it to fit, and use it as a serving bar during a party, or just for decor.

The only kind of counter material I've seen that's white with the kind of flecks you're talking about was a recycled terrazzo. The resin based ones are great, but people aren't as please with the concrete based ones. Enviroglas is one brand.

I haveva feeling the graybwill work fine. gray is a color that normally makes other colors pop.

I haveva feeling the graybwill work fine. gray is a color that normally makes other colors pop.

Check out Positano's Finished Costa Esmeralda Kitchen. The granite is a nice shade of green/gray. I looked at bianco romano and kashmir white. They have the flecks of red brown you mentioned. If you do a search for, you'll find a lot of people on GW have it, so you can see lots of different varieties. Another one is andromeda. alku05 has that and it looks gorgeous. Good luck! I am going tomorrow to pick mine out! I have off white cabs with red oak floors.

Wow, you guys are so quick and so helpful. It is so nice to have some great ideas to explore again. (I always feel incredibly insecure about decorating, mostly because my GM was a decorator with a hyper-critical personality.) Thanks.

Hi Waterdamage,
I agree some slabs of SC granite can look busy.
Brazilian Cherry floors sound gorgeous!
I think you could do a black or grey jet mist with your
floors and light colored cabs. I know it might sound like
it does not go but I love the look I have.

I do not have Cherry but I do have wood floors, white cabs
and dark grey granite called Jet Mist.

I also liked the price of Jet Mist is what is the same
price range as Santa Cecilia and Butterfly. It could be
more or less depending on your granite yard and installer.
Meanwhile there are some other ideas below that might
be what you are looking for.
Good luck,
~boxerpups

Golden Beaches Granite

Solarius Granite

Costa Esmeralda

Here is an image of Santa Cecilia with wood
floors and white cabs. I know you were not happy with
the SC you found but I thought just in case there was
a lurker out there they could see for themselves what
it could look like.

A light gray counter with this soft white kitchen
and dark wood floors

Here is a gray quartz. This is a great option if you do
not like the movement in granite. Some people love busy
others like simple plain solid colors. This is lovely.

Just a thank-you follow up and report. We looked at all your information and I looked at lots of pictures of kitchens and we decided to go with a darker grey. I went to the yard yesterday and we think we are going to go with American Black granite-- I like the charcoal color and the large movement with the white. I can't find much about American Black countertops on the web so if anyone has any follow-up advice I would love it. Thanks so much for your time!