Autumn-it is! It's the Electrolux slide in induction with double ovens. Although the 2nd oven is just the bottom drawer, but should still work for cookies, roasted veggies, etc. We haven't really had a chance to fiddle with it too much yet-it was just hooked up on Monday. I'm super stoked about induction cooking especially for the ease of clean-up. This house had an induction cooktop when we moved it, but it was literally one of the first US models available-installed in 1981. Only one burner worked, and not very well. I think the only thing I ever made on it was eggs. I got a screaming deal on this unit from an overstock dealer. It's new, and I probably could not have afforded it full price either. I found the unit on eBay after a tip from here to search there for appliances. The guy was within an hour drive so I talked DH into going to pick it up. Nosoccermom-I like that idea a lot. I picked up a grey as well as white shade. I'm thinking the white may be just TOO much white, and introduce yet another shade of white, but I'll definitely post the photos for opinions. Amanda-thank you! I think you are right that dark would be way too busy. I'll pos pics with white an d gray colors.

High gloss enamel over thin steel. Like the old fashioned plain steel backsplashes that used to be done here that you could buy with white on one side and black on the other and that you can probably still find at a box store. Any steel roofing or building supplier can get you the steel and any autobody paint shop can custom tint the paint to match. The tone on tone look is achieved by the different gloss levels of the same tint. It's a popular European look and you can even buy decorative thin steel backsplash panels at Ikea.

I'm with Pixe1: I have been in backsplash limbo for almost eight years if you count the original kitchen I couldn't figure out a backsplash for. We have been in this house for over five years, and completed the kitchen before we moved in....and I just got a backsplash (we grouted today and I Love it)!! I say this not as an ordinary human who would be fine with the four inch formica we all grew up with, but a full on Kitchen Forum TKO who couldn't find just the right thing to pass my own personal Sweeby test. So, even though you COULD move in without a splash, and it wouldn't be a big deal, if you have FOUND your tile you oughta just get it. Or wait a few weeks and see what else is out there, and then if there is nothing you love..Get it. Really. Just get it.

A vote for Revere Pewter -- and then hang an old long silver platter there -- and maybe a small silver lamp for the corner?