Karen, accessible beige would look awesome. Would love to see it finished if you do end up using the Prado. Prado absolutely has the warmth and brown in the vein, with some gray too. Plus, the Prado looks way more natural IMO to all the other Quartz. If you like the look of the Prado, you should also look into Vadara Quartz if it’s available near you. Vadara will be a little more $ probably. But they’re my fav manufacturer, about 75% of their colors are also extremely natural looking. Not so much of that stark artificial white, but more of a milky marble looking style. Look up Sereno Gold or Calacatta Oro. Those would also look fantastic with the beige paint. 😊

I found this thread when searching on Houzz for Calacatta Ida, just saying thanks to everyone for the information sharing! I have a few quartz colors by MSI that I'm considering (and a few by Cosmos). Since I think this thread is about a year old, I was curious if there was an updated list of the MSI quartz colors that use Breton technology, so I emailed MSI. After a few frustrating email exchanges (the customer service rep on the email had no idea what I was asking for based on her replies) someone from MSI called me and said they do not give out the list because it is proprietary information She said once I narrow down my choices I can email them a list of colors I'm considering and they will let me know which of those use Breton. She also tried to tell me that it doesn't matter if it uses Breton, all MSI quartz are covered by the same warranty, but I feel if the product is superior to begin with (and fabricated and installed correctly) there is less chance of something going wrong and needing to use the warranty! Plus in my experience, many companies make it very hard to use the warranty, they come up with excuses. Just my opinion. Again thanks to all contributors on this post, very helpful with my decision making! :-)

. 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 black this 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

I also have noticed certain people on these boards who make a point to slam quartz whenever they can. I’m not sure why they feel the need to do that. Are they also slamming “fake” corian and laminate counters? Many of us have chosen quartz for a reason, not the least of which is its durability and stain resistance, and where it has advantages in the kitchen over so-called natural counters including marble and even granite. And beauty is in the eye of the beholder, we genuinely find so many of these quartz countertops beautiful. I used quartz in my kitchen and bathroom remodels a few years ago (replacing some dated-looking granite that always showed water stains) and have not once regretted it. I love my counters much more than I ever did before. And as to why we would ask to see someone else’s counter pictures, that should be obvious. We want every opportunity to see the counters in different settings other than samples which are limited and misleading.