Three hours ago you felt like this (emphasis mine): "I am thinking of doing light gray cabinets in high ceiling open kitchen/family room area. To date have selected a coastal gray wood look tile..am reconsidering. Thinking too much gray..perhaps should consider type pf dirt tracked in, sand?"
An hour ago you asked this in response to a comment that it is indeed too much grey: "Too much grey, how? It is varying shades."
It sounds like you've made up your mind!
I like grey, trendy fad or not. Dove Grey has been one of my top ten favourite colours since I was old enough to make lists approximately 30 years ago. So my objection isn't to the colour, it's to the form. Wood-look anything should look like natural wood in my opinion.
You mentioned that resale is a consideration. Almost no one will object to a more natural wood tone. It can be combined with any other colour palette and since it is part of nature (well, sort of) it will always look like it "fits." A large segment of the design community is moving away from grey, and a huge segment of the population uses words like "cold" "stark" "prison" and "gloomy" when they encounter grey-on-grey colour schemes.
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