Your kitchen looks amazing!! I am currently building a Farmhouse. I have the cabinets picked out they are Brookhaven by Woodmode. The color is antique white. I have my heart set on honed absolute black countertops. I have read so many things about them and how hard they are to deal with. Do you like yours? Would you use it again? My other option is Cambria either cambrian black or sussex. The cambria is actually cheaper for me. Also, what size are your pendants? I bought the "harmon pendant" through Restoration Hardware and I couldn't decide what size to get. I got the 15 inch. However my cabinets havn't even been installed yet. My island is 7'3 by 3'7. Thanks for your help.

Oh dear, I was afraid of that, but I only need 2'4"X3'1" so maybe it won't be too terribly painful......I already have my heart set on them. I too think all their tiles are lovely, the quality truely shows. I found Trikeenan similiar, but obviously not equal. Their photos of harlequin in play are wonderful. Best of luck in completing your project. I'm "off" from detailing all my cabinets with the can of factory finish they gave me years ago, probably don't want to know what fumes I've been breathing, but got it done-and now refreshing my marble bath floors. Me too, past time to finish these things and be Done! Thanks again for helping me, what a relief! Hope that's what you will feel too :-)

I agree- the pencil liner has been ruled out. And the HD sparkly ones were lovely but after seeing the other one, the HD ones are ruled out as well. I am still mulling over which tile... and which deco. I also like them both a lot. THey will be used sparingly. But it will be one of those 2 deco tiles and it will ( at least as of this minute) be either the porcelain tile on the board or the travertine in the lighter color(and I might just still sprinkle in a few noce ones, so the good news is I have ruled out the gold.) All along I planned to do the bottom horizontal row and then on the diagonal but I seriously prefer the decos to be on the diagonal, so I am pretty sure (hey there might be trend here towards making a decision? )that I will have the tiles straight set all the way through to accomodate my 12 or so deco tiles. Does that make sense? I should be getting a nother sample similar to the tile board and will just wait to see that. (it is very close, and half the price...) still trying to figure which works better for me deco wise. If I get those new tiles, I will post a pic asap and hopefully try to get a (shhhh) DECISION already. Why do I make these decisions like a career?

For Heath, if you go to the link below, then choose the Spec Book, you can see how much variability each color has (1 low - 5 high). Then go back and check Browse Tile by Color to check the light ones. Then, there's not a ton of pics or an easy way, but you can look through their inspiration pics and google the color you want We're likely going with Frost, but we'll wait until counters are in to be sure. Here is a link that might be useful: Heath's main tile page