The floors are beautiful!
Cabinets can work, but will be very dark - maybe do black just on the Lowers? Or just the island?

Don’t care for the countertops

Backsplash should be all the way at the end.

Inspiration

Unfortunately I am not given an option to do two different cabinet colors.

the floor is pretty dark. will show everything.

A mid tone like photo above would be more attractive.

I agree that black for lowers only, and the counter is VERY BUSY.

Is your space huge? and with lots of natural light?

I am guessing you loved all your choices once. Why the hesitation now?

I like your counter, tile, and cabinet selections. Be sure to approve your actual countertop slab before it's installed. The one used might not look the same as your sample.

Can you do a lighter floor like shown above? The dark floor will be gloomy and show every speck of dust. The dark cabinets on a dark floor would be too much dark for me.

I have Bianco Antico on my island and solid quartz perimeter. It’s a busier granite-some people on here have had a poor result with a herringbone backsplash…installer issues. I’d do something simpler or wait like HU said.

@Lyn Nielson
I felt the floor color looks different when laid down. I just realized after seeing it at a friends place. My another close option is bradmore hickory morningside hardwood

@Fori My other floor option would be bradmore hickory morningside

If you cab only do one color cabinets I’d probably go with white and do a cool hood and a pretty backsplash.
Eventually you can hire out privately and change the island or wrap it in wood veneer...

What inspires you? What do you like?

So we have an open floorplan with a sunroom. I love more sunlight and hence would want the house to look brighter. I am leaning more towards the browns than whites since our cooking style involves a lot of turmeric and paprika which might stain easily. The thing that confused me was a few google images where the bianco antico was really wild. My other granite options are ashen white, luna pearl and blanco matrix.

Dark floor into dark cabinet not recommended. One of them needs to be a little lighter.

It’s going to be very dark and very busy, if you like dark flooring keep it, it’s nice but hard to keep clean, then go for light bright cabinets and countertop

Unless you want your kitchen to look like this:

I think this is what my selections would look like EOD.. maybe O should choose a better floor color.
These are my options

In laminate always stay away from knots and dark lines because of the repeat. If this is yours only option then order a sample of( light natural) and (golden sands) and see how they look in person

That looks lighter than it did in your sample photo. You could go to Ridgeline, but if the Big Fork is a medium darkness, you'll probably be ok. I think that all the finishes will look sharp together, as long as the space gets a nice amount of light.

Probably a better picture

The better picture IS better! :)

That's still pretty dark but it looks like there is enough contrast.

As others have said, it's a good idea--if possible--to wait on the backsplash until the other elements are installed. Of course you don't always get the luxury of spacing things out when you're building.

Love the floor in the last picture! Do you have the option for white cabinets and less of a busy countertop?

The busy stone will be great with Indian food prep. I have a busy granite, it's bullet proof and I don't have to gasp for air if anything spills (turmeric, fondant color, oils etc). I also have dark cabinets (lowers) and have to warn you that if you get DIRECT sun shine against your cabinets...yes, everything shows. My kitchen is on the north side, and some eastern morning sun hits the cabinets for a moment...it reminds me to wipe them down :) But 99% of the time, the dark cabinets look perfect due to bright light, but no direct sun on them.

For those who keep asking if she can get white cabinets, she doesn’t WANT white cabinets because of the spices she uses and the staining they cause!

@lucky998877 exactly my thought when I was choosing the granite.I was worried if the dark floor with dark cabinet and busy granite would look too dark which was why I chose a glass herringbone backsplash so as to bring more light. And especially since the backsplash extends up to the chimney.

I have a herringbone backsplash with my busy granite also, love it. Make sure to have a good lighting plan! I have can lights at 2 levels (I have a tray ceiling), under (and some inside) cabinet lights, island pendants and 2 wall sconces. It would look crazy to have all of them on at the same time...my kitchen is quite large, it's not overdone.

I think your choices are excellent but because your cabinets are dark, make sure you have tons of undercabinet and overhead lighting. This is one area where if you can, I'd add additional overhead cans. And make sure those cans are lighting the countertops and not lighting from behind where you stand.

if you have lots of light, you can do all that dark

Basically will look like this

This one has a much lighter granite. (could be similar to River White)

that granite you picked is very busy. are they going to allow you to view the entire slab before it's cut? They should because that granite varies a LOT. What if you don't like it after it's installed? what if your slab has a lot of yellow patches?

These are all Bianco Antico

Are you allowed to choose something else? Or, if you like all this dark, then get it.

just know those dark cabinets (I have them in my bedroom/bathroom) show every piece of lint and smudge mark. Ditto the dark floors.

You don't want a white shaker? and have you asked if you can do a dark island and white perimeter cabs?

here's that granite w/white cabinets

I think this combo would look great w/your dark floors

(shown here w/a dark island, dark floors, white perimeter cabs. same granite)

@ Beth I currently have a espresso cabinet with coffee brown color floor and I do like it even though it is true that you see every bit of crap on them. I do not want to go white or light because I am little messy with spices. We are unfortunately not showed the slab before cutting and at the same the builder has included in their contract that they are not responsible for surprises.

well that sux! What is included in the kitchen as a basic countertop? no upcharge? you could go w/that, no backsplash (be careful w/white glass tile as once installed it gives off a very cool, greenish hue. or maybe it's marble? in that case, NO) and do it after you move in. These builders charge you so much stone upgrades. That granite you've picked can be had for about 1500 bucks. the entire slab. another 1500 or so for fabrication. quartz will be about 2k for a slab.

I'm mentioning this because if they're charging you 5K more, and you can't even view your slab, and you have no recourse if you don't like it, you're paying way too much for something you can't even view prior!

ditto the backsplash tile. just wait and have it done by someone else later. maybe there is another tile you'll like better.

@parvathy praveen, What does "from scratch" mean? Are you the architect and GC?

We choose from the floor plan options the builder gives. We get to choose the interior designs few structural options and exterior colors.And we choose the lot we want

@Beth the whole upgrade is $2500 and the included is badly yellow which I currently have in my home and I hate it.
The backsplash tile do not give the green/blue hue. I have seen it in a model home. It has a white tinted backing on each tile.y

I love Beth's idea. And (especially if you have to pay for the backsplash), I'd ask for maybe a discount if they leave out the backsplash and then you can go choose something yourself to match the stone you pick out. Then you don't have to rip out something that doesn't quite match what you eventually get. Whites don't always match, you know.

parv,,,ok, that's not bad. I'm just curious as to how close your slab will match the sample. If it doesn't, is that going to bother you?

isn't there a fabrication yard where you could go and at last look at it on the day the cut ?

Is there an island?

@Beth.. I dont think we have an option for seeing the stone until they are actually laid. Do you think Ashen white would be a good choice? Or Luna pearl.

@Mrs S having a backsplash itself is an upgrade. The base house comes with plain wall

no to Luna Pearl!! this is one of the cheapest and most dated granite around!

Ashen White-is the same as Dallas White

the slab looks like this

with little maroon dots. (similar to river white, but this one is darker, more mottled)

Do you like it?

Boy, they aren't offering you many upgraded choices, are they? These are all very inexpensive granite slabs.

anything else that you can choose from?

@BethThese are the ones I am offered

**I attached some other pictures in my above comment. don't know if you saw all of them**

Everything in the first picture upgrades would be a big NO! (they're blah, and busy, and dated granites. and cheap. Verde butterfly is nice, but it's very dark) no one even uses it anymore. white cabs and light floors? maybe. but not w/dark brown.

the second pic of upgrade choices, a few are ok

Delicatus is similar to Bianco, but it's a bit whiter.

Fantasy Brown is a marble. It nice, but you'll have to be careful with it.

Himalaya white, different. but it's really gray. a cooler gray tone

Absolute White is named something else, I just can't remember

It's whatever.

Steel Gray is nice. I'll find some pics

but if you did this w/dark cabs, you'd have to do lighter floors! or white cabs

Snow Cream may be River White aka Colonial White. it's nice. hard to tell from that pic. it looks like this w/the red berries. similar to the other one, but this has more white. it would look nice w/the dark cabinets. See if they have a sample you can view.

I do like delicatus and snow cream. I did not like any other laminate shades that come within our budget. The other one we liked was hardwood hickory big fork brown which is kind of similar to the laminate we chose. I am inclined to laminate while my husband leans to hardwood. We both like brown tones more and white/light shade cabinets are way above our budget (like they are up at group 5). I am totally confused since I am unable to make a choice.

The options we have within our budget

None of the hardwoods looked like the ones in the picture

@Beth and to all of you who have been helping me.. I am really grateful for your time especially Beth. Thank you for your time and effort. It means a lot

@parvathy praveen So sorry you're getting confused. For your tastes and cooking functions, I think your original choices are very nice. I do like the Delicatus a bit better than the Bianco but the question to ask yourself is, which would make me more crazy...having turmeric stains on my Delicatus or possibly having some yellow in the Bianco? Only you know the answer.

If you can tolerate doing the backsplash on your own in the future, I think that's the way to go. But, be prepared to wait up to a year while you recover from building decision fatigue and wait for material shortages.That's probably how long it will take you to get the backsplash done if you don't do it now. So maybe it's worth it to dive in and do it now with the best choice offered. Only you know your tolerance for these things.

Whatever you choose will be great because your kitchen will be filled with good food and friends!

I see you got tons of great advice so I am not going to add my 2 cents. I only wanted to say I just finished building our forever home- from scratch so I feel your pain! We had to choose everything and I mean everything. Total Custom build from start to finish so I completely understand your stress of how everything is going to look together in the space. Now I am in the home I am grateful for the opportunity to make all my selections but damn was it agonizing! Good luck and best wishes!!

UPDATE!!!
We chose a lighter hardwood shade and kept the Countertop and cabinet the same