What a pleasant design problem to have. It's so nice and so rare to hear even a mention of a pretty yellow tile. And it sounds like a cute space. Yellow looks great and is a good blender with just about all its fellow yellows, creams, and golds, and goes well with wood with gold tones. Woods with pinkish tones, no. Really, it usually looks horrible with the pinkish-mauvish range but a soft yellow goes with almost everything else. Something really simple and blending, like a painted cream/white, or a light golden wood, (or really most colors in the same lightness range as the tile), would give them a calm but cheery background for various purchases they they might make. Keeping the contrast mostly to accent items would also make the space look larger, or at least not break the picture up into a bunch of different blocks, and let them focus attention on whatever they specifically chose for focal points, like the dining table in the bay at one end and ?? at the other? Kim, looking forward to seeing yours too!

nosoccermom - I love the look that why I chose the two together. I knew I always wanted a backsplash like that. I want the backsplash to be the main attraction lol. And the photos above are similar to my cabinet style with similar colors. When I look on the cabinet brand website they have those same cabinets with similar backsplash. By saying "it dont bother me" just means it really doesnt cause I didnt even notice it until it was pointed out - I love the backsplash styles I chose and also love the cabinets. I guess I wont really see the big picture until everything is done. And when I look around at kitchens with raised panels most are traditional backsplashes and I really didnt want a traditional backsplash. I guess I will hold off ordering my backsplash and once my cabinets are installed I'll go from there (which I probably was going to do this anyway lol) - Thank you so much for your help. This post was edited by jennifer11203 on Wed, Jun 12, 13 at 15:59

I'm only putting this in here since you're not getting other takers. This is a mock-up I did using an in-progress layout from HD and talavera tiles from a website. I liked it, but my husband wasn't a fan. The pattern would have come around to the sink wall too. Sigh. I'm into color. Here's the tile only: We may use this instead:

I didn't use key words, I used the Google reverse image search. You just drag & drop the pic into the search box. Click on images at the top of the Google home page. Then just drag the picture into the search box, either from another browser tab or window, or from your computer. Very handy feature. This post was edited by gin_gin on Sat, Aug 16, 14 at 4:54