Easiest solution, paint the cabinets. The floor and countertop will be separated and the clashing will be less noticeable. Be thankful that your husband is interested enough to select a countertop. Go with his selection. His feelings matter. My precious husband is worth much more to me than any house or decorator item. We do lots of projects together. There are hundreds of ways to do things if you have an open mind and a tolerant heart. If the floor still clashes, buy some throw rugs. I love throw rugs! They keep dirt from getting tracked through the house and make it easier to keep the house clean.

Thanks - and I was planning the white perimeter uppers and lowers with a darker quartz counter top ( i like the darker charcoal -matte finish- on top of the white cabinets)and the light gray island cabinet with marbled quartz top. I do love a dark gray cabinet but I have a small kitchen and worried it may be too dark. We are a family of 5 with three messy kids - although they are getting older and less messy lol. Ill have to look at the stained gray - i just dont like to see the grain of wood in cabinets. This island below has the pendants I will do (I'll do 2 smaller Hicks pendants). I like the look of this island and top and the white cabinets with dark quartz in lower pic what do you think?

cailgirl123, it’s a tough decision to make! Our bathroom marble scratched immediately, but it’s a guest bath that isn’t used as often. I lift, not slide glass containers, etc. & wipe down water splatters after my grandkids use it. So, for us, it’s been a little over a year & I love it. Not sure about a heavily used or teenage-girls-with-all-kinds-of-products scenario. Quartz maintenance is a no-brainer, evidently. I couldn’t decide if I liked the light “marble-like” looks & would probably have gone with a solid gray in the kitchen had the price been more budget-friendly. I loved the quartzite (Fantasy Brown first drew me in.) but couldn’t decide about the brown part (depended on the slab) & functionality in a kitchen. So, back to granite I went. When I found a Thunder White that didn’t look like someone had splatter painted it with purple paint, I was in love. There are still small raspberry flecks running through it, but it’s not an overall purple splotch look. Lol! My granite place had no samples so I did no testing. It’s only been five months, but I love my kitchen counters! They do water spot, & I keep a drying mat on both sides of my sink as we often keep out glasses with ice water, etc. So far, no stains. I’m the main cook & our kids are grown. I do have grandkids who cook with me but since that’s supervised, it hasn’t been a problem. Hope that helps! Here are a couple of photos. There’s a semi-circle scratch on the bottom left in the marble close-up if you enlarge it. The marble has light & dark streaks running through it so the darker part is natural.

I have mustang quartzite in my kitchen and my fabricator allowed me to cut the stone on an angle so the lines meet at my “L”. This is not the common way of cutting— I’m sure it’s not preferred (maybe because it’s more difficult… I don’t know). I have had it like this for over a year with no issues… I don’t walk on it. 🙂 With that said, I used Brown Fantasy (a leftover piece on the fabrication yard) to do my bar area and I absolutely love it. If they are not willing to cut the linear stone on an angle, I would look into brown fantasy.