Here are a few more maybe they can help you. ~boxerpups PS. Clergychic, I love your red accents. Gorgeous!!!! Antique Brown Granite Antique Brown Granite from Cataraqui granite Co. Brown Granite Brown from Decorpad Brown granite from Colormehappy blog Kirby Kitchen Eastern Kitchens Ebeniste Kitchens Las Vegas Concrete counters

Photos would help. Your best solution would be to take your cabinet door and a sample of the floor with you when you shop for counters. What type of countertop are you looking to do?

HI joshua123, The kitchen tile is from Pratt & Larson. It is a custom waterjet mosaic piece in marble. The color is a dark grey with a lot of variation. the exact color is bardiglio. the white boarder and interior boarded are snow white marble. kathy and Micah at pratt & lason were extremely helpful finding exactly what I wanted for our kitchen. I'll have to post a couple more pictures from a sunny day, as the ones I have posted dont really reflect the real colors. as far as style and mosaics being dated or not, I'm a firm believer that you should go with what you love and what speaks to you. you are going to be living in the house and walking into that kitchen every day. I dont think our kitchen mosaic looks dated at all, but I'm also not a designer. I can tell you it makes me happy when I walk in to make my morning coffee in that room. I did consider using more of that tile to cover the entire backspace area from the cooktop to the hood, as diana illustrated in some of her photos, to really give it a more modern look, but it was too expensive to justify in this house.

White marble countertops will look beautiful with those floors. Marble has been used for centuries in European kitchens with rustic floors - so that is quite appropriate. One thing to think about though is how your kitchen integrates with the rest of the house. What is it’s age and architectural style? You can use classic elements like white marble and white cabinets in any kitchen, but if it were a distinctively 50s home, for instance, I would try to think of some detail or style element that would be a nod in that direction. Or conversely, you can update fixtures etc in adjoining rooms to subtly balance the newer style of the kitchen. People love modern farmhouse with good reason, but I suspect that in 20 years some of those kitchens will look like they were dropped randomly out of the sky into houses that were anything but.