Love your kitchen, but what is your idea of a "lakeside" look?

Paint the pine with a coordinating color like benjamin moore lily pad

But the lakeside look, is a little rustic, but if you want to counteract some of the rustic vibes, try adding a few modern touches. like a vase of local flowers that grow around your lake , which is bringing in the nature concepts from your own lake into your home.
your kitchen is very similar to this one try adding some decorative books on a shelf into your kitchen, a nick metalic teapot on display on your stove, and on the shelf above your sink, add some decorative items that have that lakeside charm like, this modern boat piece will will help reduce the rustic look and maybe hang a few lake inspired pictures like ,or , or something i little more sophisticated like and https://www.houzz.com/products/photo-art-on-canvas-madagascar-dugout-canoe-prvw-vr~370758 little things liek these that throw in that fresh water vibe. and a few vases for modern touches like .

One possibility would be a gray or taupe subway tile for the backsplash:

thank you for the suggestions. I am going to check out the lily pad paint color. I like subway tiles and gray or taupe would work, but I'm afraid all the grout lines may be too busy for the small space. Like the accents especially the more sophisticated prints. I guess what I really want to do is bring in some sophistication and clean lines. Appreciate everyone's input!

Here's a tile with a modern country pattern, small squares pick up the color of your cabs.

I think our metropolis glass tiles would work really well with the design you have. In my opinion, the diamond or bronzite would be a great fit. You can see them here- http://www.granitetransformations.com/southjersey/products/mosaic-tiles/colors/metropolis/

You're lakeside house has a modern twist in the kitchen. I'd decorate using towels, hardware, etc. that has a lakeside feel.

Good luck!

Just wanted to note a possibility to consider in regard to grout would be to use a grout color that was the same or close to the tile color - for instance a gray tile with a gray grout.

This stone mosaic tile has an interesting pattern:

Thanks everyone...all suggestions and advice will be considered....what a help this has been!

just sent for Lily Pad paint sample....may go with painted bead board for backsplash....hope the color works!

Hope you like it!!

I think if you should hang some beautiful blue pendant lights over the island!

good thought....I'm in process of re-doing living area and would love to bring in the blue of the lake water, however, haven't started that project yet. thank you.

A weathered barnboard stained with muted blues could replace the knotty pine.

My first thought was cobalt blue and white tile in a nice random pattern for your back splash. it would look awesome, clean and very cottage.

PS it would match the missing pendant lights...

The tile would look very cottage

really like the weathered barnboard idea stained in muted colors....also like the suggestion of painting the existing pine with Benjamin Moore Lily Pad.....picked up sample paint yesterday...will try it out today. I think either will give me the simple (less is more) lake look that I am after. I am after a very subdued look...want the lake views to be the focus.

I agree that the lakeside look is more on the rustic side and i think you can bring that look to this kitchen with rustic accessorizig and a backsplash that's on the rough side like these

A larger form factor in glass tile (still subway pattern) would work in sea foam or light blue. I have used 4x12" from modwalls.com before. This is "vapor", but they also have "fog bank" and "surf" (all lakeside colors)