I don't like the blatant advertising, but I sure do agree with the concept. There just isn't enough wood from responsibly managed forests to account for all the Brazilian cherry or Brazilian walnut or other exotic wood floors being put down. Worst part is the 10-20 years from now, light floors will be trendy so many of these dark colored exotics will be ripped out and replaced with ash, beech, and maple. In the end-both the rain forest and the lumber for which it was destroyed will be gone.

Let me see if I can show you some of our home samples and how we are tying the color options available with the swiss coffee, cityscape blue grey along with natural cedar accents of our home exterior. I tried to flow similar colors through out to tie everything together. In the top left corner, you should see "beige looking" square next to a small dark blue card...that's the swiss coffee(main color of home) and cityscape blue grey color(accent on garage/gables) that will be on our exterior. The city scape will also be the main color of our cabinets too. Everything else you see are varying selections we made for counter tops and backsplash which I tried to organize in such a way to see how the colors play off one another. right corner(kitchen cabinets: white island and blue grey uppers/lowers) cement countertops with random mosaic white backsplash. The large square at the top is our LVP flooring we are putting down through out the entire house. Middle: "gre-ige" square: Benjamin Moore San Francisco Fog paint through out no accent paint colors left bottom corner: Blue light grey tile for guest bath tub/shower surround and white grey looking tile is the grey swirl marble countertops that will be in both guest bathroom but will be our cultured marble style for our shower. Hope this makes sense and helps you get some ideas. :D

Not sure where you are located, but I found that having custom cabinets was equal in price to semicustom and I got exactly what I wanted. Hope you found what you were looking for with the new designer. If not, repost this in Design Dilemas.

Thanks for everyone's feedback feedback! The backsplash is going to be the full height Taj Mahal quartzite. The wall paint color is still up in the air but something like the BM Dove White or neutral color in the "greige" palette may look nice? I am unfortunately limited to these few color options as going up to the next line of cabinets simply for a color change is significantly more expensive. Leaning towards either the Fieldstone lowers with white uppers or all white for both the upper/lower. Both have their pros and cons!