Thanks for everyones help! It's been a long road.....we had to move out for a bit to finish up. @Romy718- you are amazing, thank you! I will post a photo when completed! Here are some tile choices. I like white and am terrified to do anything else. Here are my options: ( just look at the 2x8 tile as we are not doing the marble).Left one is a handmade/painted tile.Right is machine made. It will look stacked and have some dimension when installed to give it some texture/character.

My previous home has miles of pine v-match wainscot and eave walls, with wood floors in oak and pine. Floors and wainscot were finished in a clear poly, and we easily had every shade seen in your kitchen (from these photos) from the darker ruddy brown to the paler cabinet colors. With the natural lighting and smaller, low ceiling rooms, we found that saturated colors worked best with all the wood tones. The green below is SW Sassy Green. All this to say I think a saturated mid-tone green or orange would look good in that space. A few years ago, a kitchen reveal was posted on here of a kitchen that was done to reflect the MCM roots of the house, and they used a mosaic tile in bright shades small square tiles, and it looked perfect in the kitchen. I don't know wether it would work with that granite, though. Alas, I cannot find that kitchen again. Good luck! I hope it was not too hard to leave your fab previous kitchen!

Cara, I agree. The arabesque has become a favorite, it’s just wrong for you. Yes to cream as jck suggested. I like the idea of green but I think it would be hard to find one that matches. Anything less, and it will clash.

@Jack L I found a slab door similar to what you have posted and took the counter-top image from your post above and paired it with some possible tiles. I strongly recommend matching the grout to the tile because both the door and the counter have prominent patterns. you seem to want an interesting backsplash but this can go wrong, so easily by becoming too busy. You really do need white on white. I think a diagonal line would really look too busy. My favorite look by far with this would be to continue the slab, but if that is not an option, subway tile in a straight line pattern is better than diagonal (there is stacked, running bond, etc). I do find that the white on white dimensional tile might be a great option for you, with white grout. I googled white dimensional tile and found the 2 below. The one on the bottom left can be laid with a flat tile in between the dimentional for a different pattern. One thing that you need to watch for is the overall base white color match to the counter-top. White is not white and if that match is not good, it will forever bother you and you may not realize why, it will just look wrong.