Laurie, sorry for so many pictures but I downloaded the pictures from the camera and just had it download all to Photobucket and I was too tired to delete pictures. Next time I share, I will send in less so people will want to view. But I appreciate your nice comments. That is why I sent the way before picture to show that my kitchen is a big improvement from when I bought my home and the mini blinds broke from raising and lowering them. The wall color was also too white for the appliances back then. Since the wall color looks nice in the foyers with my other tile called Akoya Bone that is a little darker, I feel once the tiles are down, it will look nice also. I am not sure how the blinds go yet but I will worry about that next. But I really am liking the tiles and feel they will enhance my kitchen with that outdated in bad shape Linoleum floor gone. I also love that little table. I was dating a guy when I moved into my home and we were looking for a small kitchen table for my kitchen and he kept trying to push me to go with cheap tables at stores that I hated. He finally told me that the deal for the table that was too big for the kitchen was a great deal and he will take me to Ethan Allen to show me what expensive prices are like so I will see that the table and chairs he is showing me were a good deal. The minute I saw this table and chairs, I fell in love and despite how expensive the set was even with the great sale this store was having at the time. I bought all four chairs and the insert to enlarge the table. I am able to add two more chairs from other rooms if I have 6 people at the table with the insert in the middle of the table and it fits in the middle of the kitchen. But I am glad I can then make the table small again for room to walk and cook. The table is so well made and is solid wood with even the side rails for lowering the sides made of solid wood. I went back the next day to bring one of my drawers to see how it matched and bought it. I have always been happy with my decision. I always wished my cabinets were made out of the wood that the table is made out of. Not sure what it(forgot since I did not know much about wood almost 14 years ago but remember it being a nice wood and it was solid wood and not oak so I was happy it went with my cabinets despite not being the same wood). I love the Wheatback chairs so much. I am so glad I did not try to save money and get the table that did not match my cabinets and was too big for the kitchen. Some things are worth investing in. Like you invested in the cabinets and put other purchases on hold. I feel that was a wide decision. I also love your tile floors backsplash, wood floors and baseboard trim in the other room. Again, thank you for being there for me and making me not feel alone during my home renovations. I can't wait to post new pictures when the tile floor is down and then to work on other parts of my kitchen project.

I have had nothing but problems with my CAULKED grout at the base of my backsplash, where it meets the quartz countertop. It repeatedly cracks. I have had the contractor come back in and redo this area multiple times. I will no longer allow the tile company he brought in to do the job because they were so awful. Despite their brag of being in the business for years, their grout guy used regular grout at the backsplash base. Then they sent in another guy to cut it out and replace it with caulk. Despite this, it continually cracks. Every time the base cracks my contractor tells me this is movement in our 30 yr old home. My prior backsplash and counter, which was ALL tile ALL grout never had this issue. I have to pay the contractor to fix the seam every few months. Can anyone tell me why this is happening and how to remedy it? It’s really bad. The cracks are the biggest I have seen yet.

Scrape and sand the grout off and reapply the grout in a more even and straight line. You could also remove the grout completely all the way to the tile edge and then caulk it with a color that is close to the grout color and then make a nice straight line with the paint along that edge. When you remove the grout, you will likely damage the wall so it should be patched and sanded and primed before you grout or caulk.

There's only one right answer: silicone at the intersection of two planes. And if your tile guy doesn't know this, he's incompetent.