It depends. Do you want the tile to all bloend in together, or do you want to accent the tile pattern? If you want it to blend, then you want a grout that will match the tile. If you want to accent it, use a soft colored grout, either in a neutral color, or one to match other colors going into your kitchen. What's most often used is either a soft gray, or a light tan or bone color.

Bill is right, of course. I made the mistake of using white grout with my white subways 18 months ago. The grout in the stove area is a yellowish color now. The grout is sealed, so I can easily scrub it back to sparkling white to match the rest of the room. But, who wants to scrub the dang backsplash grout every month? One of these days I'll go to work with the dremel, remove it, and apply the lovely soft gray grout that the guy at the tile shop originally recommended to compliment my marble. Why didn't I listen?

We have creamy white subways - used mapei silver after so many here recommended it. I really like it.

{{!gwi}}

I would agree w/Bill V (he's the expert, how can one not agree? ;) -
That said bunglogirl brings a valid pt - I would not put white grout in a kitchen or a floor -

this is Mapei siliver on white subways in master bath

this is tumbled crema marfil w/a close matching grout in kit backsplash

I would recommend, esp given your experience, to get a board apply some tiles w/different grout colors put it up in the kitchen & live w/it before you do the actual application

good luck

Thank you Bill and all who responded. I'll be going to the tile store in a few hours to choose the grout. I'll look at the gray, silver, and bone. Great idea about applying some grout colors to a board first.

Does anyone have any more pictures?

Thank you all!

Marci

I just put a bathroom floor (yeah, well, someone else did the work, I just did the pattern!) with 1" hex unglazed in white. When the guy helping me said "I can grout tomorrow" I ran to Home Depot to see what sort of gray grout I could get, and the choices were pretty limited. The recommended-by-Bill in that brand was Platinum, and it would have been a special order. I went with a slightly darker grout and it thankfully dried light. I'll snag a photo when I go up to the house later today and post it, even though it's hex and not subway, if you like. I love the way the soft gray accents the tile, and I would have assumed, prior to the Bill/Mongo/Bath and kitchen forum experience, that I should have done white.

Our kitchen has amber accent tiles and amber and brown tones in our granite, so we didn't want to go gray although I think that looks great. Instead we used a grout in a color called linen. Sorry I don't know the brand. The grout actually looks darker IRL. We had seen some darker grouts but they took on a pinkish tone that we didn't like.

This almost looks white, but actually it's a soft gray and we're happy with it.

Grout = Tec, Dove Gray

thx for posting the thread -- i just assumed i'd do plain white if i do white subway, also! so many things to think about...

suska- what type of tile do you have? really like it. i'll probably go with the plain daltile rittenhouse square white white, but a stone look is also an option.

Thank you all. I chose "bone" from Polyblend. It has a little hint of gray in it, so I think it'll look nice against by tan brown (dark grey) countertops.

I'll post a picture of the project when it's done.

Thanks again!
Marci

Hi

This msg is for meg711 for the pic above..what is that granite name? it looks really nice?

thx
Lak