Black lines show original plan, but the cabinet and beam are kind of throwing it off.

Just the width of the range hood and between the range and range hood itself.

@palimpset so you would do this below.  We have a tapered hood 36" and 30" stove.  So my husband really wants the whole wall tiled, but I don't really like how that will look with the beam and off-centered range and hood.

I would go to the bottom of the hood, all across that wall.

Across that whole wall and ending at bottom of hood for height. Make sure you pick tiles that have an option for a matching pencil liner or quarter round trim. You could use a bullnose tile too, but I think a slim trim piece will look better.

if the bottom of the hood is about half way between counter and beam......that would be a nice alignment and run the tile to that line.

Here is what I was suggesting:

This may seem a little skimpy but it avoids any problems of asymmetry or where to start and stop.

Here is the all the way across suggestion. However you have two options going all the way across, neither of which I think are great:

Your cabinet does not extend to the doorway.

So you can stop at the end of the counter as shown, which leaves a couple inch strip of wall exposed, or you could run to the corner and either have a backsplash which overhangs for a couple inches or a weird strip of tile extending to the floor.

A third option is to stop short of the wall on the left equidistant to how many inches you have to stop sort on the right. This at least establishes some sort of balance.

Straight across up to the hood is what I wanted to do but my husband is so stuck on having the tile all the way up. The hood is right at half way down (30" high and ceilings are 8').

Although, it's that strip of wall on the right that is still bothering me with going straight across.

This is a dilemna isn’t it! Don’t you hate it when just a couple, seemingly tiny, mistakes can mess up your whole plan?

I agree with you about not liking the tiny strip of wall that would be under the tile if you ran it all the way to doorway. It would also bug me having the tile going passed the end of the countertop.

The only thing that I can think of that might not trigger my ocd on a daily basis (jk!) would be something like this mock up. Ending tile at the end of the counter and then equal distance on the other side. It is similar to Palimsest’s idea execpt running it to the ceiling, which hopefully would make hubby happy too. I didn’t like how the beam extended passed the opening because it messed up the symmetry imho. Sorry it is hard to make it look right since the photo is not a straight shot of the hood.

Here is with beam intruding.

Just playing around haha, I have no idea what tile and hood color you have planned. I am sure it is beautiful since what finishes I do see are lovely.

dont use tile.get a slab of something like these and I would pull it in..... the inch on each side. or center it as a piece below the hood. these mostly have a white background...paint the wall behind the same background color and it'll be fine..like a piece of art. tile gets awkward w pencil strips....grout lines etc these are beautiful /easier/ and youd never tire of them anyway.

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Thanks rebubky, I do think we'll probably settle on something like that.   

Herbflavor,  I did consider a slab behind the range but we have tile on the sink wall which is  on the opposite side and I just didn't like the lack of balance.  Also, I used extra from the slabs I purchase for counter in a built in and our laundry room, so there's not enough of the same material and I don't want to bring in another type.

Could you put a beam type trim over the other opening for balance?

That's a good idea palimpsest.  Yes, we could. Our carpenter is amazing and would definitely be able to.  Then would you put the backsplash up to the hood?

Here it is with the trim added to the right, and tiling to the end of the beam on each side gives you a reason for stopping short of the end of the wall on each side