This is a link to a website (hope it comes through) for the request for rustic tiles. I found Ken Mason Tiles in a magazine. They are beautiful hand-made, hand painted tiles from California. Using them for my entire backsplash turned out to be "beyond my budget", but they do have a slection of "Overruns" on the web site for 1/2 price. I was able to pick out individual 3 x 3 tiles from the overruns to use as accents in my 4 x 4" tumbled travertine marble backsplash. They make me happy ever time I look at them. I love the "culinarios" (fruits and vegetables) and, especially, the cherub tile that is next to my sink. Here is a link that might be useful: Ken Mason Tiles

Color is always so much fun when it comes to remodeling! Chantilly Lace is a very bright white (High Hide) color. It's beautiful! I usually recommend that people reserve this color for baseboards and woodwork. However, if you love it for your walls, you could always decrease the sheen on the walls and increase the sheen for the woodwork. It will give the illusion of two different colors (both white) but still allow your woodwork to pop! Here is a blog post that is loaded with ideas that may help. Have Fun! 2023 Trending Ideas

Here is the problem - you are looking for a paint color based on 2 inch square swatches compared to huge expanses of the colors already in your home. If you have a sample of the countertop that you can take outside - that it the ideal answer. If not you will need to make do with a gerry rigged method using the counter top in place. Get a large white sheet. Gather samples of the colors that must stay ( a drawer front, a sample of flooring that closely matches if an actual sample isn't available, a sample of the granite. Gather as many colors as you can from the neutral and heavily muted colors at the paint store. The lighting in the paint store will confuse your brain - pick up everything even if it doesn't seem good in the store - you may be suprised by what works when you get them home. If possible, take all the colors outside and cover a table with the white sheet. Lay the samples of the colors that must stay on the sheet and place one color sample at a time next to the colors that have to stay. If it works in natural daylight it will work anywhere. If it is not possible to take a sample outside cut a hole in the sheet and let a small section of the counter show through the hole in an area near a window. If that is not possible get a good lamp with a 5000k lightbulb and place the lamp so it shines on the hole in your sheet. You can limit the amount of any sample of the things that must stay by doing cutouts on the sheet. Typically one or two colors will feel right. This is going to be the hue you want. More than likely when you purchase a sample and paint a large section of wall it will read more vivid than the color you picked from a tiny sample. More space- more color. But you will know that you are in the right ball park and can use tools like EasyRGB to discover similar colors that are slighly less saturated. I worked with Miller Paint when I first discovered Devine. They were amazing. Don't know how they are today, as it has been 20 ish years ago. If I were in their service area I would work with them again in a heartbeat. Hope this helps narrow your choices :-)

tdesanti, beautiful choices. BTW, quartzite is harder than granite and shouldn't scratch very easily. The info above isn't totally correct. Quartzite can stain, depending on the type that you have. do you have a spare piece you can test? Do the lemon test, and the scratch test with it (use a piece of glass to scratch the surface. does the stone scratch? if so, you don't have quartzite!. True quartzite will not etch either) I have to agree w/waiting until everything is installed and done before deciding on a tile. Unless, you just love that brass inlay choice and want to do it. If so, go for it. I can't offer any advice until I actually see the kitchen. If going off of this only, then I think your diamond tile is fine. It works well w/your quartzite. I'd do the entire wall up to the ceiling all the way over. You don't have a large enough area to do a small area behind the stove. once the hood is up, it's going to eat up most of that wall. Your tile is too large to do an accent. Do the entire wall! I waited one year before deciding on mine. I did a brass inlay that was cut to fit in the vertical grout lines of each marble tile. (Brass Schluter Jolly is what I used) I have plenty of other gold accenting. (and I have a lot of black and white off to the left that you can't see to balance things) If and when gold goes out, I'll change the pendants and the hardware. the gold around the tile is very mild and isn't that noticeable.