The floor is a cement style porcelain tile- hardwood is not an option as the Kitchen flows into the dining living area which is all hardwood I I didn’t want it to clash. Additional I sometimes rent out the house in the summer so durability of hardwood in the kitchen was unacceptable.

there minimal wall cabinets in the layout and will be 1 walk open- was planning on floating shelves- but with the lack of wood elsewhere in the kitchen and the ‘other wood’ in the house- bleached white floors and ceiling- i think the floating shelves will look strange if a random different color/distressed wood, no?

Floating shelves are a punctuation in a kitchen and also have practical nature. It just depends: I'd place wood but then my relatives were old world style carpenters and I'd never turn away from opportunities w wood ...but why do you think wood laid in as a detail would be errant?

In the past the honed quartz counters have done very poorly. There was lotsmof trouble with staining.

Would glacier white Corian work, or do you need a color? Maybe honed absolute black granite? Or a silver quartzite?

Have you considered stainless steel countertops? They look great with a modern kitchen too, kinda pricey, though.

The countertop needs to be as white as possible (trying to look like marble), and I definitely want quartz- I am willing to look at different brands as long as they wont get much more expensive that the price of silestone/Caesarstone- currently I was leaning towards pental quartz which makes the whitest quartz i could find with veins.

I would be most nervous about corian as it looks more artificial to me and I don’t need to save money on the countertop.

I hope you realize that all those whites will not match up. Sounds like an awful lot of white too.

There is "modern" and there is "utilitarian/industrial". Making all the elements very similar (white glossy everything, with cement looking floors, sounds more like the second to me, like a commercial kitchen sans a stainless steel work surface. Is that what you are aiming for?

Introducing some wood element somewhere will move it more toward a gentler but modern aesthetic IMO (ps I am no expert). I am not a fan of open shelving but if your walk in area will be visible it might do. You can probably have the wood fabricated to be complimentary to the other woods in the home yet a little different, with a bit more color.

cpartist made a very good point - I like whites in a kitchen or bath, but it really bugs me when they are all slightly different shades (some grayer, some warmer...) Some people, I guess, don't see it though, and so it doesn't bother them.

Sounds like you are designing a modern surgical center (or echo chamber?)--not a modern kitchen. IMO, you need to rethink at least one surface and warm this up, also quiet the acoustics.

Not my kitchen, but I think in many ways this is capturing the effect/issue I am considering/concerned about. My backsplash is a similar tone- but wider less 'horizontal' print on bigger slabs of polished porcelain.

I don't have a big issues on white on white as seen here and on plenty of kitchens I like. I am really trying to get some advices on the countertop finish and faucet for finish.

I have white glossy cabinets and glass tiled backsplash. I picked a soapstone countertop because I thought a white polished countertop would be too much shine. If you do get the white, be sure to test samples with different stains, such as red wine and lemon/lime etching since you mentioned that you might do summer rentals.

Stainless faucet. The rest is up to you. ALL stainless faucets will blend with the Viking. And the SINK. I do not love honed quartz, and especially not in a rental.

I have no problem with an ultra modern kitchen and IMO honed counters have issues that can avoided with going gloss but you now need to add some softness do the open shelves very thick and in the same color wood as the DR floor All your bulbs better be LEDs in 4000K or the whole point of a wahite kitchen will be lost to a yellow glow I would have chosen a back painted glass backsplash in a color as those tiles you have ordered are going to need a master tile setter to look perfect.

" I sometimes rent out the house in the summer so durability of hardwood in the kitchen was unacceptable." Durability of your counters will be important too. Before you choose a counter, bring home samples and do scratch and stain tests (red wine, soy sauce, pasta sauce, lemon juice, etc.) It would stink if your beautiful expanse of white counter had a big stain in the middle of it.

Very American Psycho vibes you have happening. Without some warmth of wood and color, a lot of people will view that as cold and creepy. Not polished and urban.