THANK YOU ALL for the great suggestions! I'm definitely going to go lighter for the countertops then! Showed all the comments to my hubby as well to convince him ;) At the warehouse now... just found out slab #3 (light gray and white) has a "smiley face" crack on it :/ I'll have to see if the fabricator can work around it. The "super white" looks super gray here. The frosty carrina looks great but still a little expensive for us :( Aprilneverends-You're so right about the movement on the cabinets! We had painted over builder's oak. That is a big factor that I'm considering when picking the movement on the countertop Aboxofcrayons-I love your cabinets! Is it the distressed wood look? I would love to see your kitchen once the countertops are installed! Oldbat2be- I have laminate right now and there are few burn spots on it too. I'm dying for something new, glossy, and durable :) Torreykm-We had our cabinets painted with a gray stain. I originally wanted a distressed wood or driftwood look. Our GC ended up painting it! We just left it then lol. I can find out which color and brand we used and I can post it here when I get back home :) I'll keep you guys posted! Thanks so much again!!!

Here are the hue/value/chroma color notations for many of the colors on the SW strip. Just because colors are on the same strip is no guarantee that they will indeed harmonize and/or in the same hue family. Incredible White - 1.59Y hue/ 9 value / 1 chroma Agreeable Gray - 2.34Y hue / 8 value / 1 chroma Anew Gray - 1.52Y hue / 7 value / 1 chroma Mega Greige - 9.96YR hue / 7 value / 1 chroma Anonymous - 2.89Y hue / 5 value / 1 chroma Mega Greige belongs to the Yellow-Red hue family (orange) Given the above information, I would agree with nosoccermom that SW Anonymous might be the better choice to coordinate with Incredible White, Anew and Agreeable Gray. Because Mega Greige's notation indicates it could have orange overtones. I'll attach a color wheel so you can plot the colors according to hue family if you want to. P.S. Many people are unable to perceive the difference between pink overtones and orange overtones and will confuse pinkish and peachiness. It's important to know if the color characteristic is indeed pink (red hue family) or peach (orange hue family) because the light never gets confused - the light is boss. So you have to KNOW what hue family a color belongs to. And you KNOW what hue family a color belongs to by measuring it to capture its spectral data (its fingerprint or DNA) and converting that spectral data into a color notation - a hue/value/chroma notation.

I realize it would be best from a color selection standpoint to put the cabinets in first, but the contractor doesn't want to do it that way (which, having painted most of our pretty large house myself, I understand) and its not something I think is worth making a production over. At worst, if it looks bad, it wouldn't be a disaster to repaint it. The "white" cabinet is actually a very light grey, it was supposed to be a tinted varnish match to SW Repose Grey, but it turned out a little lighter than anticipated but we liked it as much if not more. That color will be used on the L shaped run that includes the brick. The grey stain is for the island, appliance wall, and lockers. The door style will be the same and recessed, rather than raised, panel. The samples were just color. We do really like the brick and I suppose we will try and keep it with a sealer. It's original to the 110 year old house, so nice to keep a part of it intact. I cleaned it up a little last night which makes the transition at the top less obvious and it will broken up some by the hood duct cover. My research is that people that actually have sealed brick behind a cooktop/range seem to think its fine. Suppose we can always cover it later but once its covered going back would be tough. Wife (our roles are reversed in this endeavor from what I think the more common scenario is, I've done most of the hardcore planning while she weighs in about the things she has a strong opinion about) decided she wants the light blue (Tradewind) on the perimeter and the interior pantry/closet/appliance walls to be either Sea Salt or Comfort Grey. I had sort of pictured it as majority a greener shade with the blue secondary, but I think either would work.

Can you post pictures? Honestly, I don't recommend you spend the time, effort, and money to redo the cabinets. Wood cabinets are in style, and a tile countertop should be the first thing to go.