You think the morning fog matches well? The island cabinets will be gray and the wall cabinets will be white.

Another option is porcelain...

Morning fog!

Is Morning Fog a good match with the gray island?

Since your quartz already has a pattern, I'd go for a solid color backsplash. Too many different patterns could clash and/or look busy & disjointed.

Take a look at MSI dove gray available at home Depot

https://www.msistone.com/dove-gray/dove-gray-subway-tile-3x6/

Morning fog, but only if it actually looks good with it in person. :)

We are working on a backsplash FAQ. There may be info here that helps you make your decision. For starters, it's probably way too soon to choose your bs. Wait till your counters are installed if possible, and until then, read, learn, and choose some inspiration images.

Again, this is proposed as a backsplash addition to the New to Kitchens FAQ.

To the age old question, "Do I need a backsplash?" the short answer is yes. You need some sort of backsplash in wet zones to protect your walls, cabinets floors and subfloors from deterioration due to water infiltration, and in your cooking zone to protect your drywall from cooking oils, spills, odors, and cleaning chemicals.

That said, plenty of houzzers have chosen not to have a backsplash, or to delay the choice for budgetary or other reasons. Search for threads with ABB (all but backsplash) in the titles to check those out.

How does one choose a backsplash?

First, like every other process here, we encourage you to do some research on your own, then post your particulars and ask for feedback.

One fundamental question you must consider before all others is whether your counter material or your backsplash will be the focus of your space. Consider images of kitchens with busy counters, and those with commanding backsplashes, and decide which you prefer. Bold counters and tile rarely work well together.

To Wait or Not To Wait

Buying your bs material when you buy your other finishes might prevent delays down the road and could help with electrical outlet placement. Drawbacks include that you are making decisions on colors and finishes based on samples, sample cabinet fishes, sample counter swatches, etc... and that samples don't always represent the final product accurately.

Waiting to buy your bs materials until you have had your counters installed allows you to see sample tiles in your space in your light throughout the day with your actual installed materials. If your cabinets are warmer than you expected, or your counter cooler, you are free to search for a bs material that can pull things together. The only drawback to waiting is that you may have to wait for tiles to be fabricated or to arrive, causing possible delays in the completion of your space.

The majority wisdom on this site favors waiting if that is possible. Regardless of which approach you choose, you should consider your bs as one part of a whole picture of your beautiful new space.

Inspiration Images

These really help you to focus on what your kitchen as a whole will look like. They also give the folks responding to your queries an idea of what looks you like, so they won't recommend white subway tiles if all your inspiration images feature handpainted Mexican tile.

Google images of kitchens with your other materials (white cabinets, walnut floors, etc...) and select which ones you like the look of. What type of bs do they use? The idea is not to copy the look, but to get a feel for looks you like, and communicate those looks to others.

Budget

Finally, we'll need an idea of a materials budget. Installation can account for half of the budget for a backsplash, so take that into consideration in your planning, and deduct accordingly, and let us know how much you want to spend in $/sf for your materials?

It's not very helpful falling in love with a handmade tile in a custom glaze if it costs $100/square foot and your budget for tile is $10/sf, but houzz members are fantastic at finding similar (and occasionally the same) tiles for less money. Without budget numbers it is very difficult for us to truly be of help to you.

How we can help.

The way it works is that we can recommend a surface (usually tile, sheet glass, metal, slab stone or laminate), advise against a choice (color, or busy-ness are the usual reasons), provide you with layout and pattern feedback, and images you might have missed of materials that have worked for us or caught our eye.

"How can I find a bs tile to go with my green floors, counters, and purple cabinets"

The answer might be that you have to paint your cabinets or change your floors to make it right, or maybe some houzzer somewhere will show you an image of a kitchen with a painted tin backsplash that pulls it all together. It has happened before.

Some houzz members are great at photoshopping images together to give you an idea of what a small sample of tile might look like in your space. It is time and effort on their part that can be truly helpful. Remember to say thanks.

I hope we can be helpful!

On my monitor it looks pink/cream/warmer grey while your counters look white and cooler grey.

I would not do the porcelain.

Is the second picture your actual kitchen?

I would not do anything that has an active or natural looking pattern either. I would do some sort of ceramic like the tile, It can be variegated in glaze, but no "viens" or anything like the quartz. Nothing that mimics a different natural stone or that is an actual natural stone. But, it is hard for us to suggest an actual ceramic because of color variation on different monitors.

Gray ceramic tile is a good choice, but if the island gray and the tile gray have different undertones, which will most likely be the case, they'll look pretty bad together. We haven't seen your island paint so we can't tell you which tile looks better. And we'd need to see the tile in your kitchen with the island, counter, and lighting installed and even then, we can only go by what each of us sees on our individual computer monitors.

If I had to choose, #1 but.....how does it go with the gray of your island? It looks greenish grey on my monitor.

exactly what rantontoo says although on my monitor it looks slightly blue.

Do you think you could post a pic of a sample of the countertop, cabinet door and the backsplash choices above all together?

The actual light and lighting in your kitchen will make a difference too. It's always a good idea to wait until it's all in place them bring in the samples in the actual place.

I know this is an older thread however I am curious what tile you went with? I am going between morning fog & dove gray.