please delete your other post.

so you want to change these countertops and leave the tile? The problem is, you tiled on top of the granite backsplash. they really don't look good together.

and you have the piece behind the stove. anymore tile leftover? perhaps you could tile down to the new countertop and fill in the space behind the stove. or do you think switching tile is in the realm?

what do you think about a modern quartz?

or, you could do a granite like Alaska White/Delicatus

Agree with Beth. The issue is the counter goes a little up! But anyways regarding counter I’d do either solid white or white with gray veining

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I agree with June, nothing else about your house says gray tile, and white cabinets....

JuneKnow is correct. I have the same countertops in my kitchen. I purchased them about 20 years ago when Silestone was brand new to the market here, and was marketed by a door-to-door salesman as an inexpensive alternative to granite (which I did not want anyway). I don’t have quite as much counter space as you do, but just about, and I swear those countertops cost about $500 installed. The salesman had about 4-5 options to choose from, and that (obviously) was one of them. I remember there was a beige one with little primary colored polka dots in it...like a circus. He told me that they were ”heat-proof, scratch-proof, and stain-proof.” And I believed him. So, needless to say, I have been chopping on them, taking hot bowls/dishes/baking pans out of the oven/microwave all this time (for YEARS!) and placing them directly on the counters. They look EXACTLY the same as they did the day they were installed. Our three boys have grown up, towered over, and moved away from those countertops, but the Silestone remains.

I am about to redo our kitchen and replace them with a different Silestone (my tastes have changed, of course). But those counters will always be one of the smartest decisions we ever made. Of course now the rest of the world has discovered quartz and the price will never be the same. *sigh*

Several decades ago I learned that I was not in the countertop business, I was in the fashion business. I have never forgotten that.

You can change the countertop to almost anything you want to since you will have to change the back splash at the same time. You just need to consider the warm toned floors and the white cabinets, and then choose a countertop and one back splash tile.

I agree with Beth and Calie. Plan on replacing both the countertop and the backsplash. Find the countertop first and then the backsplash after the countertop is installed. No more 4” countertop backsplash, that is also dating it. I don’t think that shade of blue in the backsplash is working for you anyway, it seems to have a cool undertone.