Suggest you wait until everything is installed and then do the backsplash. Everything will look different once it's installed and in your own lighting. That tile will be there when you're ready.

Do you have the name /brand of your tile you installed? It looks amazing. Should I read between the lines of tozmo1's comment that "my tile will be there when I am ready " to mean no one else will be buying it!. My foyer tile is white and grey and so I am trying to tie in the Taj Mahal with the grey and white. Has anyone seen calacuatta gold backsplash tile with Taj mahal?

Don’t read too much into the comment. I agree that waiting is best. Right now you’re looking at a slab vertically. Wait until it’s installed horizontally on your countertop so you can see how it looks with your lighting, floors, cabinets, etc. There will be plenty of tile choices at that time. I have Taj Mahal in my kitchen and in a bathroom and it looks very different in those two rooms. It’s a pretty stone; I love it and think you will too!

I’ll say it! Your tile is not a great choice. Absolutely get a tile recommendation from @plf12652. It’s lovely. You can also use the search box above and see what the many, many, many others on this forum who have used that beautiful stone have chosen.

b c......I will look in my files for the name.....stay tuned but it will be tomorrow earliest!

Oh no b c, that's not it at all! I meant that it's not like produce that will spoil before you need it or a one of a kind item that you have to grab now or you'll never see it again...simply that unless it's an item that is going to be discontinued soon, the vendor will be happy to sell it at any time. I'm the first to admit, I don't have a good eye for color so I didn't want to comment on the choice, just the sequence of deciding the items in the kitchen.

Ours is similar to plf12652

This is called Crossville Market Collection Ashbury Fleece crackle. It comes in a ton of shapes and sizes but we just went with a subway tile. This was 18 months ago, so not sure if it's still available. I might have gone for a more matte finish, but this was a collaborative remodel that 3 sisters were handling for my Dad's vacation house, and I got out-voted.

Close up:

Further back:

Oh, and we did wait until everything was done and people were actually using the house before picking the backsplash. We had so many samples because we initially wanted more pizzazz in the backsplash, but in the end simple was best for the space. There are some nice pictures on Houzz where people use a backsplash that has more pattern and color in it. They look pretty, but in the end we chose simple.

Here's an idea if your budget allows - use the Taj for the backsplash. In this pic it looks they did a bookmatch over the stove:

My Dad considered this for about 5 minutes until I told him the price of the slabs and the fabricating. But I think it looks really cool.

Here, there is a tile with more pattern, but I think it's too busy and takes away from the Taj, especially because they used 2 didderent tiles:

To me, this is also too busy and dark. The Taj fails to be the star anymore:

I told my sisters I likes this but they nixed it. In the end I think they were right:

I don't have Taj Mahal but a similar type of countertop. I am also trying to decide on a backsplash. I did see something similar to the subtle multi colored one above (which looks gorgeous) but the one I saw was a bit more pronounced. I felt it would walk a fine line between being great and too much...so I am 99% back to plain subway tile. I had also considered hive or arabesque with white grout to take away some of the business. Seeing the examples posted above, I think plain white/offwhite subway tiles ( I am including the subtle crackle in that as well) or the one pf shared is the way to go.

I can see that the busier tile gives an entirely different look and I like a more simplistic room. I love the full solid backsplash.

I also found these princess white quartzite slabs. That is the sample of my foyer tile and the two cabinet colors in our kitchen. Our floor is white oak in the kitchen. I am struggling as if I go with Taj Mahal it is hard to coordinate with a white grey backsplash as the slab is warm beige. I have the simply white cabinets and cherry island. My designer said to get silstone statuario quartz . Therefore I am finding that to change direction from their design now is difficult and limits my options. I really don't love the statuario silstone The stacked multi tile, while ugly,tied in the grey brown and white elements perfectly. However it is crazy busy and looks like a hot mess in the kitchen. In an ideal world I would put calacutta . However I don't know if I could deal with the etching and staining. I've looked at porcelain but have concerns over the chipping and don't really like the edge. I like natural stone the best. I like marble the best . I feel I need something white like as the counters.

My Taj has both grey and beige and I used a matte taupe stacked elongated subway. It lets the Taj be the star, and I have been able to decorate with both warm and cool colors

This is the foyer that opens on to the kitchen and a closer up photo of the tile . Below are the white oak hardwood floors in the rest of the house.

Thank you Susan Murin . Your kitchen looks beautiful and very interesting how the tile does read both cool and warm with the grey and beige.

Hmmm, working with my Dad on his remodel was the first chance I had to put Taj in a house. His house reads warm (beige, greige, brown, red, tan, etc) with cool accents in the rugs, pillows and such (greens, blues, greys, oranges) and fake-wood floors (Coretec). The Taj counter was a perfect stone to be in the center of all that. It's both warm and cool. It has orangy-brown veins, but cool grey-bluish colors also.

If your entry area is all bright white and grey, I'm not sure if the warmness of Taj would work. It might depend how close these spaces are to each other. Can you take some more pictures?

How extensive is you remodel?

Your first photo and second photo show incompatible materials, in my opinion. The tiles are too casual
and rough to work with the beautiful stone. As suggested, do your counters first. Then bring home samples
of backsplash materials to see what really looks good with the counters. Compatibility, color, and texture
are important.

If you like cooler colors, and you are not married to the Taj yet, you could pick a whiter/gray-veined quartzite. There are lots of really beautiful choices in those color tones. If the "hard" elements in your house are already in the "cool" color tones, maybe you shouldn't fight that. You could pick a cooler toned counter top, such as a white quartzite (some of them have little warm/brownish veins also). And then work in warm elements with your rugs, pillows, upholstery, etc. Maybe that would go better with the other elements you already have.

Even though Taj is my favorite and it worked out for my Dad's vacation house, and I do love it, in my own house, I like the cool tones to set the landscape (the hard surfaces), and the warm tones to fill in and compliment (the art, furniture, floors, rugs and other stuff). You could go in that direction. My favorite colors are rusty orange and grey-blue, so you would think that I would pick Taj (which is exactly that!) as my counter for my own house. But I didn't. I used my favorite colors in my artwork, rugs, pillow, etc. My hard surfaces are white and black. Wood floors, neutral upholstery, and I work my favorite colors into the other elements.

Even on your shiny marble tile entry, I can picture an antique Persian runner in warm reds, orangy-browns and such. I love the combo of cool-crisp and warm-cozy.

This is the foyer from another angle and the entrance from there into the kitchen .

Your home is gorgeous! I must say though that having seen the foyer tile I do understand your concern about the Taj not matching and might look at slabs that are a bit cooler.

I think you are not looking at the big picture....that foyer tile is far enough away that I wouldn’t be concerned with “matching”....you need variety with stuff that goes together but doesn’t match. But hard to tell without being there as photos do not show the real picture!

You already have brown tones going on with the flooring next to that tile, as well as furniture pieces. They don’t “match”! Grey and brown (beige)work together!

I just love Taj!

I completely agree with plf12652 - the Taj is far enough away and will blend beautifully with your oak floors. There are many issues with different types of quartz here on Houzz, haven’t seen any with Taj.....

Susan Murin, your kitchen looks beautiful. What is the matte taupe backsplash that you went with and what elongated size? Looking into Taj for our kitchen, but I know the slabs vary a lot. Thank you!

I finally found the receipt! All is says is Tender Gray matte 3x12. I got it at Palm Tile and Stone Gallery in Sacramento CA

Just finished installing our MSI portico pearl herringbone backsplash with Taj Mahal!

Wow It really goes perfectly and accents the Taj Mahal . A great balance !

plf12652... gorgeous kitchen! What is the name/color of your tile backsplash and wall/cabinet paint color?

I'm looking for backsplash to complement Taj Majal Quartz (from Pental), rather than the granite or quartzite. Cabinets will be painted BM Mascarpone. We have hardwood floors, and some warm gray/ greige in our kitchen area. Any ideas appreciated. Thanks!

About how much does each slab of Taj Mahal cost approximately?

About $3000 per slab….and fabrication is more expensive for quartzite than for other materials.