Well, we went back to look again at the stains of the KM, and I didn't care for the Kaffe on the Oak, it looked really red with almost a black color sunk into the graining pattern. You can kind of see it in the pic that I posted, but in person it was really apparent. Not that it was bad, just not a look that I was going for. So we are instead considering the Kaffe stain on Cherry wood, door style is just slightly different too. Trying to hit on the "transitional" theme moreso than contemporary. The current freebies are a free sink base, free hardware, $2500 for quotes over $15000. Then a couple of other things like a tiered wooden cutlery tray, pull out drawers in the pantry to the left of the fridge. There may have been a couple of other things too. Total with install is going to be right around 15K. I really wanted to deal with the local custom guy, as TorontoTim mentioned, they aren't a place that has a huge flashy showroom. It is a family company in business for many years, really liked the cabinet maker we talked to. We walked through their warehouse. But I'll be honest, working on that has been kind of frustrating. We are going "through" somebody so not communicating with the cabinet maker directly except for the one meeting, then all follow ups have been through this other guy. I don't know that he understands what I want, and frankly I am tired of arguing with him. I had given him the full mock-ups provided by a semi-custom line (similar to those I posted above). So he should know what I am looking for, it was right there on paper. But this this weekend I had to explain to him the difference between full and partial overlay and then have him tell me he doesn't think that this is the "standard" with that cabinet company (even though I had emailed him and asked him about it before a week or two ago), and it isn't that big of a deal anyway (who are you to tell me what is and isn't a big deal). Without "real" drawings, how do I know that their aren't a million other things that he doesn't think are that big of a deal. It is the vagueness that is really worrying me. It is kind of unnerving.

I like the last tufted one and the third one on the group above. Nosoccermom has a good point but your existing sofa looks more traditional and I think the two with the high boxed arms are more complementary to your existing sofa and room. If you have a coffee table in front of it you should be fine. I favor the color of the last tufted one for your room, which is really pretty BYW.

Do you really want the grout to be a feature? I'd go with the closest match to the tile, which is either the top or the bottom. If this is supposed to look like wood (can't tell from this small piece), then it's especially important that it not really appear to have grout, or the illusion is ruined.

Pretty PLEASE... Advice on grout color really needed!!! I'm looking for a gray color grout to go with Clay Grafito porcelain tile from The Tile Shop. I like the look of this tile & grout: