I'm not sure why I'm struggling with this so much! We're putting stone on the outdoor kitchen now. Stone will have grey grout (same gray as the concrete showing now). Back splash to be determined. All stainless steel appliances. Sits on top of a brown (Spiced Rum) Trex deck. Which of these two slabs of Fantasy Brown do you think would look better?

We love contrast, so the whiter one would look great. But nothing on our house, the yard, the deck, or the kitchen is white. So then the darker one looks nice, but maybe too matchy matchy? I'm concerned with a brown deck, brown deck railing, and grey granite it might look mismatched. But I may have already crossed that line with grey stones :) (not redoing that! lol)

Please excuse the amazing photoshop work :)

And of course chairs can be changed down the road, but these will be the chairs we bought for the next few years: