Do you like it?

It's beautiful. Where is it going? On what color cabinets? Floor?

Off white cabinets maybe the color Sea Pearl by BM? Light oak floor. Stained island medium brown.

Walls are white dove BM

I love the color tones in it. I think the subtle movement is pretty too. It’s not dramatic but I think that might be nice in the long run? I know some of this material has a lot more movements

It is very beautiful, but what does it matter if anyone here likes it? If you're asking if it works with what else you've selected for the space, then you need to post photos. Otherwise we're just guessing.

Wall color IMO is the last choice to make and for sure easier to choose after the rest is in . The slab is nice but we have no idea how it works in your space and that is all that matters . No context means no real help and you are too earlt in the process if you do not know any other choices . Waht you mention would be a IMO a bit difficult to get to work all together so if the slab is what you love then cabinet color, wall color all need to be chosen after you actaully buy the sabs needs for your kitchen and those all need to work together .

its going to depend completely on your room and the lighting. Sea Pearl is a warm paint but can be a chameleon in north facing light for example and read cool. the counters also could read gray. what I notice is the Sea pearl color you mention will be fairly close in tone and intensity to the counter pick. light oak floors? contrast ends up at the island ? you have to plot out the tone of everything with floor /cabinets/ and counter being similar. we dont know what the room or plan is like. I like neutrals but care w tones for sure. I like the piece.

Beauty will quickly be forgotten when it starts staining once installed. These "white" quartzites tend to have some marble-like properties and many of them are porous and will stain.

You need to test the slabs to make sure you will have a product that will stay beautiful once installed.

Look for the old "geology" threads by karin_MT for some easy tests you can perform at the slab yard.

Also search for post with a title similar to "help my new quartzite is staning". Lots of them for you to read.

It's pretty but I don't see it as warm. It looks grey and white to me.

We don't see color in a vacuum, we see them in connection with the surrounding colors.

In a kitchen you have 4 colors that have to work together.

Flooring, Countertop, Cabinets, Backsplash.

The colors selected for the kitchen need to feel harmonious with the color selections for the living room, dining room, entry . . .

When I am helping someone pick colors for a new build I do things a bit differently than most.

I start with the color that makes your heart sing - the accent color(s) you love and keep picking every time you see a painting or a vase or bedding or throw pillows.

If you love cornflower blue you should have bits of cornflower blue in your art and decor, have something that makes you happy every time you walk into the room.

The neutrals that work well with cornflower blue and are the perfect backdrop for cornflower blue are different than the colors that work with teal green, eggplant purple or fire engine red.

This helps me define the neutral color family that we target - Pink beige, orange beige, yellow beige, green beige, greige (gray/beige with green undertones), green gray, blue gray, violet gray or taupe (gray/beige with violet or pink undertones).

I do agree that wall color is the last thing to pick, but you should have an idea of the neutral color family you are targeting before going out and picking a floor that clashes with the color family you want to use.

For me, my neutrals are always going to be taupe and violet grays - I love purple and have a lot of color in my home - I love lots of color, but everything I pick has some purple or purplish wine reds.

My sister's neutrals are greige that work with the fall colors she loves (Greens, golds, orange reds)

My sister-in-law loves cornflower blues. Her neutrals are creamy whites and yellow beige.

Whites are just lighter forms of neutral - they all still have an underlying neutral color family.

This slab, based on what I am seeing on screen (Often very different than in real life) looks like it would work beautifully with my sister's neutral, is too muted and green next to my sister-in-laws cream and completely clashes with my taupe.

Ok let me provide more information since this was a poorly executed post. My challenge is that the elements in my kitchen aren’t working together. The current countertops are reading too cool and I’m drawn to more warmth. I could tile the backsplash with the same tile as across the room and leave the current countertops and try to work with them or change them to a warmer quartzite - like this Bianco superiore or move to Taj Mahal and bring in more warmth. The cabinet design above the range top is changing so the backsplash will change no matter what. The island will be refaced so I want to find a lighter warmer neutral stain and figure out a paint color that would work. The floors are natural white oak. Those have to stay. The light fixtures can be replaced with something smaller although I think they are quite pretty. The cabinet person is ready to go now as he has a gap in his schedule so I need to sort out a paint color and figure out the countertops first and then can select a stain for the island. My walls in my house are all BM white dove so that is staying. I was hoping for a paint color with a little more depth that ties to the countertops but I’m struggling to find the right color.

Current countertops - Mont Blanc/silver Macabus quartzite

Bar are tile with countertop

Cabinet color is white dove

Tile - Zellige tile

Another angle of the room

"Off white cabinets maybe the color Sea Pearl by BM? Light oak floor. Stained island medium brown. "

I would bring a door to the slab warehouse to make this decision if this stone is warm enough to please you.

You selected white cabinets, gray stone countertops, gray light fixtures with no texture and painted a third of the island a cool blue and the result was a cool kitchen. SURPRISE!

You can't nibble around the edges and fix the problem.

It seems unrealistic to have a stone covered island only slightly smaller than an aircraft carrier replaced with another neutral colored polished stone and expect that to 'warm' the room.

The vast L Shaped island, guaranteed to help you get in those 10k steps per day, is the big elephant in the room along with a showroom's quantity of ceiling fixtures!

https://obrienharris.com/portfolio

Maybe this porfolio will provide some inspiration as to what can be changed in your room.

OK, so you want a different countertop... or maybe not, a stain color for the island, and a paint color for the walls? And you are replacing your uppers (what color?) and backsplash (to be like your grey zelige at the bar). I do like what you have across the way, they grey zelige subway tile and wood shelves. Not everything has to be warm. In fact the better choice is a mix of warm and cool.

How about sticking with what you have except for the island base and try warming it up with a cocoa or greyed olive color. Yellow and orange are not the only warms you can choose from.

Or explain why you are replacing your cabinets maybe? They look perfectly nice to me

Beverly- Yes the island is a giant “L” but that’s how it was when we bought the house and it’s a difficult space to figure out with all the windows. I’m not sure how else it could go and we are just planning to reface the cabinetry. It does provide for a lot of storage! The island is stained rift sawn white oak but it is getting refaced so that can be made warmer and the countertop could change. We need 4 pendants to illuminate the island but they are oversized. Something lighter looking (glass, etc.) and less prominent would surely look better. The portfolio you send was beautiful. It looks like marble. Thanks a for you input

If the kitchen feels too cool and you have the money to replace the counters and reface the island and this will bring you joy, I say do it.

I think your current counter is way too cool and gray with the tile backsplash you have in the bar area.

Hopefully you have some extra tiles and can take some to the stoneyard to pick out a counter with the same warmth.

I lightend and warmed the counter using excel - nothing fancy, but it will give you an idea of how it could impact your space.

Also played with doctoring your photo of the island

Lightend and warmed the counter - replaced backsplas. recolored the right end of the island.

I like the contrast that the dark island provides. It looks like the beam on the left is a black brown - maybe use the same color on the island. A very dark brown almost black. Repeating the color and adding continuity.

White Dove has passive warmth. I wouldn't attempt to pick the wall color until you have the countertops, backsplash and counter in place. and island done.

The lights are cool, but you can mix warm and cool and because the backsplash has some grays and the lights have the gold chains they may be fine. If not you could keep them and simply paint them. I have painted more than one light fixture in my life.

Having a kitchen that works well for you is what is most important. Beverly hates your L shaped island. I would do a setup like yours in a hot minute. Great seating/dining area where you can be seated across from one another. It isn't like there isn't enough room for it and I am betting that 80% or more of your family meals are eaten right there in the kitchen.

I think it also helps hide the sink Without the seating are the sink would be front and center and that is a problem for me.

I think what you have now is quite nice. Bring in color and some warmth with accessories, it's going to be a heck of a lot less expensive and won't send you down a rabbit-hole and wanting to change this fixed element because you changed that fixed element because you changed that other fixed element. I re-iterate: What you have now is quite nice.

I have doubts that anyone over the age of 12 wants to eat dinner sitting on a counter stool.

No matter the stone selection, a glossy finished light stone this size will always read cold.

Change the island to butcher block.

I only had a counter height penisula or outdoor table in my last home. We had a table and it gathered mail and paper and junk and we never used it for eating, so I eliminated it. Lived in that home from the time I was 37 until I was 57.

I just called my older brother - they did not have an island in their kitchen until last year when they remodeled. They have two seats at the island. My brother is 69 his wife is 64. The table is in the same location as it was before their kitchen renovation. He said since they got their island they only use the table when they have guests.

My sister and her husband use their table more often than their island, but their island only has two backless stools. They also have trays which they carry into the living room and eat many of thier meals in the living room while watching a movie.

I don't have an island in my current home, live by myself and usually eat on the sofa. When I renovate I will have a small peninsula with just one stool (Small 10x10 kitchen won't allow me enough space to add more than one stool.)

My oldest sister had the bar height seating and it was seldom used, but it was bar height, not counter height and she and her husband had both gotten knee and hip replacements.)

Several of my friends without islands have counter height dining tables in their kitchens.

At 63, most of my friends are well past the age of 12.

The people I see using their traditional height dining tables when they have the option of table or island are mostly those who have young children or feed more people than can comfortably fit at their island.

We renovated our kitchen (for the second time) after our kids were grown and out of the house. We eliminated the kitchen table and replaced it with a beverage bar for coffee, tea, drinks, wine, etc. We use it way more than a kitchen table. We usually eat at the peninsula on stools or in the dining room when we're alone. Of course if more than 2 people are here for meals, we are always in the dining room--I love our dining room, and it's not formal either. It's just a room for eating, with nice furniture and curtains!

Beautiful movement. This stone has a gray base and I have had a hard time matching cabinets with it, but white works well.

Other than the fact that you like the amount of storage w the existing L island - do you like the way the kitchen functions overall? With the amount of changes you are considering I’d make sure the function is solid first.

I like the new stone you are looking at . But I also like the counters you currently have. I wonder if changing to brighter light and adding texture with warmer elements could help. Maybe the light fixtures below.

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The L doesn't bother me at all. Looks functional.