Oh, wow, check out Cambria Castlemartin, a creamy pale yellow. That would be gorgeous with the white cabinets and blue floor

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I like Tibbrix's pic above with the creamy yellow counter. But, if you are ready to rip out the 20 year old blue tile, give it some more serious thought before you sink new serious $$$ to work around it. I find my DH sometimes resists change based on emotion ("Oh, but we both loved that tile when we chose it together. . ."); maybe yours is the same.

ETA: This quality is sweet and endearing, and bodes well for our future.

Maybe once you start trying to pick out new counters with the new cabinets trying to work around the tile, DH will agree to replace the tile. Either that, throw a few bribe-bucks at the demo crew to "accidently" chip up some the blue tile beyond saving ;-)

I wouldn't do granite(unless it's absolute black or something with little or no movement), I would go with a quite quartz as not to compete with the floor tile. And I'd pick something gray, much like you have now. I like the idea of pale yellow; but something more neutral like gray will be easier to work around I think. In the long run.

Don't know much about concrete except that the quality job is very expensive. But I don't see it with a farmhouse sink somehow too..

BTW just looked up Caesarstone, and they have a color that's called "concrete"..:)

always1stepbehind, lol, that reminds me how I quietly prayed the asbestos abatement crew would chip the tile in the second bath(the only place we decided to leave the asbestos since it was completely safe and sealed under the tile; but I hated the tile). No they worked with much accuracy around it; instead, they cut out our absolutely new HVAC pipes:)

I would insist on getting rid of the floor tile. No offense but it will limit you and it could look so much lovelier with a different floor. I love the cabs and if you ditch the floor that will open up a far better selection for your counters and backsplash!

Thank you all for advice, suggestions and humor (aprilneverends). I think you've helped reconfirmed for me that I like a more solid looking surface and I think I need to re-approach the floor discussion. Thank you!!

What about walnut? I think that would look quite pretty in there. Plus, totally neutral so it would go no matter what the floor situation is.

Blue Eyes granite.

That is terrific!

I think that the blue tile is overpowering the entire kitchen, and I would hate to see you keep it when you're chging everything else. If you keep it, it is going to overpower anything new that you put in there. I think that you have to chg it while you're chging everything else, otherwise, I don''t think you will be happy with anything that you do in there. Good luck. Let your husband know that it needs to be chged so that you both will be happy and satisfied with what you've done, and all of the $ that you've spent. If you keep that blue tile, and you go to sell your house, it will stick out like a sore thumb, no matter what else you've done in there, and it mY keep the house from selling. A hardwood floor would look wonderful in there, and would add to the value of your house. The blue floor actually takes value away from the house.