Love love love this topic. Your kitchens are amazing. Looking for pics of stainless; particularly of stainless with white cabinets and beadboard backsplash... Have you ever seen this combo? Any ideas would be awesome. Again truly amazing kitchens!!

We did this in a showroom, on an island that we used to set up buffets. Yes, people snagged their fuzzy sweater type clothes on it, and yes, it was difficult to clean. Requires a scrub brush, lots of towels, and a directed spray of clean water to rinse. Thus the towels, to keep the water off of the cabinets. The great chocolate syrup spill during our ice cream sundae gathering was a pain to get it looking right again.

I am really struggling with using Colton with white shaker cabinets. We have a 8'x5' island and an L-shaped kitchen and I wanted some interest and movement. I also like the brown tones with gray in the Colton. Will the Colton look too blah or disclored with the white cabinents? I also struggle between using a white subway tile or champayne color subway tile for a backsplash. Any opinions?

They are installing colton as I type. I will add more pics later. We are sticking with the honey oak cabinets and using Matte White new yorker subway tiles. 3x12