are those your cabinets propped up on the floor? I'd stay near white w the wall color. Ceilings are not high...that counter will have a tendency to make this feel gray, generally. Excellent lighting will help. I like the feel of the white cabinet w the counter so tweak that clean shading onto the wall. need not be stark but a crisp white. Really nice, but gray walls ? : no.

My suggestion is to bring the gray of the beautiful counters up on the wall.

My monitor and your counters are orbits apart, but thinking Gray Owl, only because i see this vague green undertone in the quartzite.

Gray Owl shows beautifully with bright white.

Yes... those are the cabinets. They will go to the ceiling 33” cabinets. The only full wall visible will be the one the cabinets are propped against, the wall going up the staircase will be same as kitchen and wall going into hallway... the current green in this photo.
I actually put grey owl on a foam board today because I had leftover samples (thats not it in photo) and I was thinking maybe. But torn on white vs light grey.

I’m trying to avoid greens because my old counters were forest green and these walls. That one you posted though does show green on the screen, but I didn’t see that in the one I saw. Picking out actual slabs monday.

Oh wait... that IS the Grey Owl in the last photo I posted. Forgot I had moved it over!

Gray Owl isn't green...don't give up on it. My point is to find the gray of your counters and put it on the walls.

I like idea of light grey ... but I worry the room won’t feel bright enough. So then I turn back to white. I’ve never looked to white for kitchen but I don’t want it to feel to busy, but simple.

I was thinking to match the white cabinets to a simple white Backsplash, with grey grout to match the counters (and ease of keeping looking clean).

If I go with a white wall color should I match it to my cabinets? BM “White” seems to match them.

With your space I’d bring home the whites /lights chart from any of the good paint brands . The swatches are bigger in those brochures. I cut them out and tape them on wall and since you have cabinet doors and everything.....note over couple days nite/day and with lights on / off . You’ll get down to couple 3 or so . Then it’s easier to figure it out. Do not have to match cabs but rather work w all elements And light In space is always big factor. Not clear what floor will be? Is it chosen? a factor as well.

We currently have no lights entire 1st level right now, and wont until after cabinets go in starting Monday (we had all our ceilings replastered and have just finished painting kitchen ceiling only). But we are putting in halo lights that will have 3 lighting options 2700k-5000k I believe. So I will have some flexibility with choice there. I really would like to paint before cabinets go in since well, there is wall paint on the ceilings in the rest of the rooms in my house...

Well there are neutral whites/ off whites . If you want to get w it that’s what I’d do. Later you can pick an adjacent wall for accent color might be a nice tweak it looks like open space Then you’ll have lights and floor. I can think of a color on a nearby wall with this but floor is unknown so don’t want to say

This is the floor.... same as the rest of the house. It’s going down this weekend. Red Oak, natural in satin finish.