Thanks! I will check them out.

Ohhh Joseph, I have some others that are worse! When I say these are favorites I am talking the coloring of the cabinets and granite. None of those backsplashes do much for me.

There are literally hundreds of choices in granite and quartz, so the best advice is to do a little shopping and see what's available in your area. Take photos with your cabinet door if you want more opinions.

Mayflowers - I have been out looking several times already and am going again this weekend. I often see people say “that looks like x granite”, and I know many people have quartz, so I thought someone might be able to point me in a direction with a name of something that looks similar to the pictures. I am currently unsure I will ever find what I want wandering down the aisles of the granite warehouses. I go to two new ones this weekend though, so maybe I will find “the one”.

The top granite photo you have looks like Santa Cecilia or Giallo Ornamental, which is more off-white/yellow and brown.

Giallo Verona is similar, but is more white with brown to it.

Thank you CAP! I will ask if they have those this weekend. Any idea of something similar to the bottom picture? I saw a Sienna Bordeaux irl yesterday and I don’t think that is what it is. I was surprised by the amount of green in the SB. Definitely was a beautiful piece, but not the coloring we are looking for.

It could be Colonial Gold, which has a lot of Gold in it. This one is more pricey than the Giallo's or Santa Cecelia. I would go to a shop that not only carries the granite, but also fabricates it on site. Tell them what colors you would like in the counter and your budget and they should be able to point you to the correct granite slabs so you don't have to look through all of them.

My parents have Cambria Berkley quartz
https://www.cambriausa.com/builder-remodeler/Designs/design-palette/Berkeley/

The Cambria website photos are pretty bad and make it look flat, but it is a nice pattern/color in person.

Taj Mahal quartzite would look nice with your cabinet color.

Quartz no matter what brand will have a pattern in their attempt to imitate real granite. if you are the type of customer that likes movement and the different patterns that granite has then stick with granite. Granite is still very strong and yes it should be sealed but it's like a furniture polish application. You apply it on your own either apply or spray depending on product, spread and wipe off and there you go. You do not need a special person to do that for you. So if you love the character of granite stick with it.

In my observation the speckled, pebbly type quartzes and granites like Giallo Ornamental, which I have in a guest bath, are considered "dated". People seem to prefer the quiet marble-like quartzes or granite and quartz colors with a lot of movement, like you see in Cambria's newer collections. As for recommending a quartz, not all quartz companies are available in all regions of the country, and your fabricator may only fabricate a limited number of quartz products.

Much of the granite that has brown in it also has gold. I was looking at granite remnants in a creamy tone for a dark stained vanity last week and saw many that had a flowing movement like your last photo. If you specify flowing movement at the stoneyard, they might be able to direct you to some slabs.

Quiet is best in a kitchen, to my mind. I prefer to allow my food to be the "exciting" thing in my kitchen.

Mayflowers - I had no idea that some types of granite were considered “dated”! Those tend to be the ones I like too! Although I have fallen in love with the last one in my pictures, which has more movement!

Thanks everyone! I will look at these and ask my GC and at the stone warehouses this weekend!

I know this is an old thread but I just love that granite in the last picture and wanted to track down the name. It looks like a granite called Ivory Brown and the picture is from the marble.com website.

https://marble.com/galleries/details/kitchens/346