It will be very helpful if you added more photos in a comment that shows more of the kitchen. For example, people need to see the cabinets + flooring (plus, more of the quartzite).

What color tile is under the black paint?

I would save up and replace the whole shabang.

It's hard to tell what's under the black paint. It looks like terra cotta.

Will add some pics.

Here are some pictures that show the whole room. All the lights are on so it's giving it more of a metallic sheen, whereas the photos I uploaded above are move accurate.

Remove that tile ans fix the drywall then come back with pics . I can understand why they did a black bacsplash but not a apinted tile for sure and also probably not shiny.

Starting with this photo, the counters were poorly installed and the colors (beauty in the eye of the beholder) are perfect for trick or treating this week.

I am with @Jeanne Cardwell. Remove both and start over.

Funny that I didn’t even notice that I didn’t especially care for it until someone noticed the bricks were painted. I’m taking a wall down elsewhere in the house among other things so my focus was elsewhere. Sigh. I guess it’ll wait until I can free up some funds. I happen to be partial to white ice Granite , which should be pretty easy to work with.

It is already painted - won't harm it any to paint it again and it may buy you a bit of time to save up some pocket change. I would change it to the same as your wall color.

If you are looking for a paint color, paint the tile the same color as the cabinets. It is really your only paint color option. You can take a cabinet door in to your local Sherwin Williams store and they will scan it and produce matching paint. Then you would buy Extreme Bond bonding primer, and the Emerald Urethane Trim Enamel tinted to your cabinet color. Other paint stores will have their versions of these coatings that will work too.

I would not recommend replacing your tile at this point. You will eventually change that counter material, so the most efficient approach is to replace the countertops and backsplash as part of the same project.

You can get contrasting paint for the grout lines iif you really want it, but I’d probably keep your effort to a minimum. Good luck!

Fantastic. Thanks so much! I can definitely live with the quartzite for now but the backsplash is depressing. Leave the black granite trim? Or paint that too?

Black granite trim - where am missing that? oh, i bet it’s at the ends.

See first set of photos

Oh wait. Not uploaded. Here.

There’s a coffee bar also but it would be a lot easier to get rid of the backsplash there.

I don’t think I’d want spend much money on the backsplash without also dealing with the countertop. Unless you like that, um, unusual material.

For the time being, painting the backsplash seems cheap and easy. Try nutty colors, you’re going to replace it anyway. Silver? Chrome? Red? Each tile a different color? Go wild!

Love it!

It’s also on the fireplace so eradicating it is complicated and costly. I only started to dislike it once I noticed the backsplash.

I don't know if it would be a huge improvement, but I'd sure look at some grays that complement the counters. It looks like there are some mixed into the counter and it would be less stark than the white of the cabinets or the wall color.

Ah, OK. Oh no, The tile should have been finished with bullnose tiles or a Schluter edge, instead they used a piece of granite as a trim piece. You have 2 options, leave it black or remove it, and what you do will depend on whether they were consistent in how they used the trim.

You can try to pry it off and see if the granite will budge. My guess is it will come off with very little effort. Then you sand off any adhesive it leaves behind and paint the exposed top edges.

Can I just say you are absolutely right, they did not grout. I assumed they grouted badly. That leaves you with a dilemma of whether to grout and how. If you grout before you paint, you will paint over your grout. If you wait until after, you may ruin your paint job. I’ve literally never seen this before so I am guessing, but i think you might need to grout then paint.

Good idea also.

For the curious, much of the decor of this place was heavily industrial. So I think this quartzite is meant to evoke rust. Since I’m eliminating a lot of the industrial decor (not that I don’t like industrial… I love it, but it was too much of a good thing) things like this countertop and backsplash are really standing out

It isn’t you - that counter material was meant to be noticed.

i'd leave it because the twosome of counter and splash work together / and the all white kitchen depends on these surfaces to avoid sterile vibe.....obviously if you have the cash to replace everything who could find fault with that but Id work with this...... can you finish it up w grout and add a utensil rod or the like. I'd leave it all alone. its not really ugly.

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Oh, they painted the cabinets white, replaced the granite, and either painted the existing backsplash or, weirder (and I think this is correct) installed whatever is on there and painted it black. So this was *meant* to all go together.

Cabinets were originally cherry, backsplash white, countertops a largely black granite. I probably would have just replaced the countertops in that case, as I don't like a black countertop (have it now and am constantly losing my phone in it!)

It just needs to be better enough to get you through till you can replace countertops and backsplash - test a gray from the counter, test a white - paint doesn't cost much and it is a temporary fix to go from ehhhch to ummm not from ummm to wowza.

I really appreciate all this awesome advice! Lots of good ideas.

One of the Benjamin Moore metallics might work well.