Design help! What countertops/quartz!? White and Gold Kitchen
Hi everyone! First time poster here! eek!
I’m redoing my kitchen. White cabinets from home depot (they are arriving next week, so ill post the stock photos below). They are kraftmaid dove white. Flooring is wood tile. Painting so disregard tan walls. Havent picked backsplash out. picking after countertops but open to suggestions with countertop recs! Appliances are white and gold (GE cafe brand and lacanche range).
Really struggling with countertops. My original inspo/idea in my head was a classic white and gray marbley quartz countertop, but then I found the Cambria Hermitage and loved it. Then i thought it may be too busy and picked calacatta miraggio gold msi quartz in the showroom. There is also a calacatta gold quartz in stock that would be $2,200 less than the miraggio. Open to opinions and ANY AND ALL suggestions on countertops for my white and gold dream kitchen. Another thing to note, my countertops must go with black cabinets and gold hardware as well bc I will be using same for contrasting black and gold wet bar.
calacatta gold quartz on left, miraggio gold center, cambria hermitage top and labeled.
Actual stock calcatta gold slab
Space and flooring going in
Same flooring in living room in better light and almost done.
Stock photos of kraftmaid dove white cabinets.
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PROPatricia Colwell Consulting
last yearlast modified: last yearTo answer this is impossible since colors on moniyors are never a real idea of the color but IMO fake plastic counters never are a good choice so why not look at some real stone there are great white granites and so much better whites are tricky no matter real or fake so IMO wai until the cabinets are in before choosing the counter plase make sure all the lighting in the space is LED 400K too. You have a floor that looks very gray to me and no mattter what you choose for counters that choice will need to work wit those floors , also remember no quartz behind the range either .Do I see a stainless hood hanging there . You might even want to check out marble with gold veining this is a white granite that is quite beautiful
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these are MSI Laza countertops, but not the gold. do they have these in stock?
Do you have a sample door of your cabinets? you should really get one when looking at white slabs to see how they look next to each other.Forget the backsplash until everything else is in.
what if you did a solid quartz countertop and a marble tile splash?
I did this w/mine. used calacatta gold on the tiles, have calacatta on my island, but went w/Silestone Eternal on the perimeter. (they also have the Charcoal version you might like better.
here's a close up of mine.
I was using black tiles elsewhere (coffee bar w/black/white cement tiles, and a black zellige tile floor inlay by the pantry), plus I have the Cafe in the black and a dark island, and thought it was too much blackthis is what it looks like in the charcoal
here's a picture showing a black cafe fridge w/the dark countertop
black and gold w/a quartz marble
Cambria Bentley
Porcelain slabs
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