Usually, with a darker stone, you would use lighter floors and lighter cabinets. The stone is a focal point with its unique pattern and color variation, bringing natural beauty to any space.

Are those three different slabs? The last picture makes the stone appear lighter and browner. Do more slabs matching that exist? How soon will more stock be coming in? You can ask the stone shop for that info.

Do you have a plan or layout for the space.....one window in your kitchen ??? ...but do you have an island or just walls wrapped with cabinetry...is there a local climate issue so paint vs. wood comes into question? is lighting being upgraded and so forth ? I can see a beautiful deep stained wood with the gorgeous slab. I could see a painted green with the slab....I can see a creamy white .... so it depends on how the cabinetry is configured and what the space is like overall. you have options .

@dan1888 I realized I posted a completely different stone. The first two photos are the slabs I got. I didn't look too much into that stone though, so not sure what the other slabs look like.

@herbflavor Thanks for responding. I've edited my post with a photo of my kitchen plan. I'll add one here as well. It's a U-shaped kitchen, no island. Lighting plans: We're doing undercabinet lights, sconces by the sink, recessed lights, and I just decided yesterday to make concessions for a light in the middle. We do have a window, about 4ft, above the sink wall. As for wood vs. paint, it's a looong story of working with carpenters who are undependable and untrustworthy. We did find someone who was really good and commissioned them to make moldings and our doors. Fast forward, and we still have unfinished molding in our house from two years ago. When we found these guys, we liked their work and that they offer customizations, but the drawback is that they only use real wood on the face of the cabinetry. PS: I posted the wrong photo earlier, so that creamy, pinkish stone isn't the one we chose.

If you decide to do backsplash on the full wall for the sink run, I'd consider slab for all walls. No pendants interrupting the sink wall.

If your measurements are correct, you have a 14.9' wide kitchen, which would be perfect for an island. Rather unusual since most posters here will try to shoehorn an island in a 12' wide or smaller kitchen. Are you sure you don't want one? That's an awfully big empty space in the center. You could get a freestanding island or use a kitchen table if you don't want anything permanent there.

SW Austere Gray, or even lighter, like SW Reserved White, depending on the natural light in the room.

@Diana Bier Interiors, LLC Thank you for your suggestions, Diana! I've seen Stone Hearth and it's beautiful on cabinets! I'll do some research on the others. We considered an island and thought it was too cramped with one? Maybe my dimensions were off. I am thinking about a freestanding wood one later on. I would love to have some natural wood eventually.

@Lyn Nielson, not much natural light. Especially today when it's cloudy. I've given up on the idea of making our window bigger; it's the only reason I can come up with as to why we don't have enough light. The kitchen is south-facing, and not too many things obstruct the light. But after seeing how much work it takes to move outlets, lights, and additional plumbing on concrete, I'm thinking it's too much. My husband (licensed electrician) and I are doing most of the work.

With your husband's access you can get DMF recessed light fixtures for task and ambient lighting. Home - DMF Lighting Good lighting is especially useful at night. 450 lumens minimum at the counter for work zones. 4" cans located 3-6" in from the edge of the counter to avoid shadowing from your body. M Series Residential - DMF Lighting

the stone is not going to be of much help lightening up the room, it will darken it,

so you'll need to do that with light ceiling, walls and cabinets. Are you able to add under cabinet lighting? Or opening up the area across from the window?

adding a wooden element is fine to warm things up, but keep that light as well.

What does the adjacent room/area look like? Anyway you can lighten that space as well?

You have so many options because there are so many colors in that stone. The key is not going too cool (because you have a warm floor) or too warm (because there are a lot of cool greys in the stone). Aim for neutrals with cool undertones. These swatches are from Sherwin Williams.

I agree - draw out the taupe color from the stone. It would be better with the floors since they look to be a warm tone as well. Add proper lighting and I think you will have a great space!

Post after pictures! That stone is really beautiful!!

the floor is nice...avoid gray undertone cabinet color ...stay neutral a bit lighter ... if you want a putty shade , work w floor tone.......then you get cohesiveness and the drama of the stone will be appreciated . You still have a backsplash to pick so save room for that. I would add backsplash on the window wall ..about halfway up the window height....with sconces , a nice complement to the counter and the side walls full of cabinets. .....once you pick the backsplash .....you could add a small shelf either side of window since you are placing sconces.....this way the wall wont seem so barren.....

a nice putty shade tile shown below [ignore all the blue] ....add tile to window wall , then a floating shelf either side of window.... other tile options shown below. do you like glass?

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the wood cabs looks really nice. it avoids all the gray undertones of the paint shades .

I think you can pull the warmer tones from the countertops with the right paint color and have it work with your cabinets but it is going to take a bit of effort to test a bunch of colors to find out just which one doesn't pull too pink or green or yellow and falls into that sweet spot.

Sadly, computer images are not great for testing colors.

I think Pashima and Revere Pewter are too green, even Edgecomb Gray feels a bit too green, which I wasn't expecting, Ballet White feels too Yellow, Modern White too gray, Natural Linen , China Doll look a bit too pink, but may feel better in real life. I am really loving Smokey Taupe and Soft Suede. Stone Hearth is in the same family, just a bit darker. Accessible Beige may work, can't put my finger on it, but it feels a bit off compared to Smokey Taupe.

I know you don't have a sample of the countertop, but you can test colors against the tile flooring. I like to take paint samples and the material outside on a clear day around 2:00 in the afternoon and look at them together. The undertones are so much easier to identify under natural daylight than any other lighting. What shows up under natural daylight in a smaller sample will show up inside your home when you have a couple of hundred square feet painted on the walls or cabinets. You will need to push the limits toward the pinker / oranger shades in the flooring.

This is a great example of how you can see even the slight change in the colors of the two tiles and how one pulls much pinker than the other. Inside it was hard to see, (The two tiles butted against each other and looked fine) but natural daylight really enhanced the ability to see the color difference.

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@Jennifer Hogan Thanks for your response! Your process has definitely helped a lot. I had some samples on hand, not all exactly what you suggested. But I do have accessible beige. This is what it looks like at 9am. Currently waiting to test at 2 as you suggested.

Here is moderne white on the walls. But this is a north-west facing bedroom and it's currently cloudy.

@herbflavor I agree. I definitely plan to add some wood in the kitchen. Wood tones look phenomenal with our tiles. We also plan to bring the stone up to the bottom of the window.

@Debbi Washburn Definitely will! I see the potential, which is why I'm trying to make the best choice in terms of paint. But I can't wait to see it all come together.