Following - I have the same problem!

I would end it where the upper cabinet ends, unless you're planning on tiling around the whole slider too.

Yep, stop it at the end of the cabinet....or just commit and do like Mayflowers did. Your call, your house, your money...(but I'd stop at the cabinet)

Can anyone photoshop white subway tile running down to the floor? I am dead set on not ending it at the cabinet anyways, as that makes no sense to me. My entire countertop is a work space and is like the wall protected from me and my kids messes.

I think I'd also be concerned about them kicking the tile and scuffing it?

Otherwise, I like mayflower's solution.

I would think long and hard about that. Tile is normally only carried to the floor in a bathroom.

We did talk about taking the tile all the way up, but our cabinets don't go to the ceiling. Based on the fact that several people think it'll be odd to go down the wall we are going to just end the subway tile at the counter with some simple quarter round tiles. Thanks for your help everybody!

I am not a fan of taking the tile to the edge of the peninsula counter. It ruins the look of the wall when you have a square foot of tile jutting past the cabinet. They used to do it that way but you see it less now. I have the same situation with my peninsula so have done a little searching. I like what they did here. I really like the gray pencil tile for you too since everything is white in your kitchen. Otherwise I'd go to the floor.

My former kitchen from the 1920s had tile to the floor. So I don't see it has a bathroom-only look. Sorry no picture, but I like that look, especially like mayflowers' picture above. And tile would be more resistant to scuffs than paint.

I had saved this pic labeled "Picture from the Sears 1912 Modern Homes catalog" with tile to the floor in the kitchen. OK, maybe this kitchen is a little different than your kitchen :)

That said, I think you could do the tile to the end of the countertop with trim as in mayflower's pic above without also tiling to the floor.

Honestly I'd do like what mayflowers suggested and run it from the counter all the way to the wall. I think what you're looking to do will look more odd.

If not going all the way to the door, I would take it to the end of the counter (actually just past to place a finish/trim piece) and under the counter to the floor. That will visually tie the area together, I think. Putting grey tile below the counter with the white/grey grout above would work too.

I am so torn! Anybody have pics of their kitchen with tile to the floor?

And not up to the ceiling!

It occurred to me that you were kind of describing a tile wainscote. So, I google imaged it and found entrances, mud rooms, and bathrooms.

But I really like mayflowers photo with the molding. That one didn't pop up, so my search terms probably need work.

Barncatz, I saved that photo before we joined Houzz, maybe two years ago, and it's on my computer. It's probably on page 58 of your search.

There's something about the molding that makes the tile look like it belongs there. I think it could work with molding the width of the door frame or a little narrower. Do you have crown molding in the kitchen and adjacent room?

Now that I think of it, I posted this once and someone nailed a piece of molding up to get a feel of how it'd look in their home. Try it! You could even tape some tile to the wall.

No crown molding anywhere, and our floor trim is literally just a 1 by 4. Window trim?