I used Daltile Navelli Carrera Star tile, which looks like carrera marble, with an actual carrera marble counter. I love how it looks. I would recommend bringing home some samples of Daltile Navelli Carerra Star and American Olean Catarina Coliseum White tile to compare with your samples of Cambria Torquay. Personally I think the look could really work for you.

Mandkirswill, We have Torquay and have creamy white cabinets. The Torquay is fairly grey so in hindsight, I've come to think that a whiter cabinet would have popped more with the Torquay. Other than that, it's been a great material. Good luck, oldbat2be

Ha! tour-key sure sounds like turkey, so I'll keep pronouncing it Tor-kay :) Jackie54016 - Most people who come in to our home love the countertops and island and ask if they're marble. (Obviously not GW-ers!). My mixed feelings are due to mistakes on my part, things I'd do differently 'next time'. 1) Seams are getting dirty (no way to do an island our size without seams). 2) Not crazy about the simple edge I picked 3) The pattern is too monochrome / not enough movement in some places. 4) Our cabinets are a creamy white and Torquay looks better with a whiter white. On the plus side, 95% of the time, I'm very happy with it and LOVE how reflective the surface is. I can do pretty much anything to it and with the exception of the seams, there has been no staining or etching. Some slabs definitely have more 'movement'' than others. I'd insist on looking at them and waiting for the right slab(s)! Here is our island: Do you have an inspiration picture or pictures? Please post and solicit input on identifying the elements in it, which make it work. Then, we can answer which surface might be best. I'm linking to my reveal, if you're interested in seeing more pictures. There have been more than a few threads on Torquay, so definitely google them too. Here is a link that might be useful: More pictures of kitchen

I have Cambria Torquay in my kitchen. It is so beautiful & I could not be happier with it. I too had a terrible time getting my kitchen design place to get a sample so I finally ordered a sample directly from Cambria & it came in a couple of days. Cambria shipped it out the day after I ordered it. It seems that Cambria subcontracts out the job of supplying kitchen design places with the samples & the subcontractors do a really poor job of supplying samples. Cambria themselves were super fast. I had gotten so discouraged waiting for the kitchen design place to get samples that I also ordered samples from Silestone (Lyra & Lagoon) in case I wanted to give up on Cambria. I liked Cambria's Torquay so much better. Torquay's white is whiter instead of being just shades of gray or slightly muddy. It is a very serene design to me. If you have any doubts about what you want and you cannot find a sample, just order a sample. The cost is nothing when you compare living with a countertop pretty much forever. BTW, Cambria's samples are 12"X12" so you get a really good picture of what it is like, not like looking at a 1" square!