This blog is way left of center...

Gravatar I like the peach/rose better, personally. And since I'm the first voter, 100% of voters agree with me!


Gravatar I'm a hardwood guy all the way. Stone is too cold.


Gravatar I think the yellow looks great. Although based on the pictures, I don't think you could go wrong with either one.


Gravatar Hey, what the hell? My vote is gone now!


Gravatar Stone is great, ignore Toast Just use a couple of throw rugs to soften things up a bit.


Gravatar Definitely, the yellow gold. I have tile throughout my house, it is a really great choice.


Gravatar I'm a hardwood guy all the way. Stone is too cold.

Toast is right in a literal sense. Cold Floors in the Northeast suck, where the weather is warmer year-round stone is great for your floor.


Gravatar Your poll hates me.


Gravatar Forget the temperature, stone will be fine in Texas.

Go with the yellow.


Gravatar Even though you didn't come search me out for an opinion, like you did some people (hey, Jen!), I'm going to voice one.

Yellow/gold all the way!!


Gravatar Erica, who is the design genius behind our house, says:

"You can not pick those horrible pink tiles."

"The undertone of the yellow matches the cabinets perfectly. And the counter matches the neutral gray tone in the tile."

So, for the walls, your options are:
-A darker or lighter gray that complements the counter
-A darker or lighter shade of the orange/yellow of the tile.

I think a problem here is that you have two different impressions of the tile. Does one have flash and one no?

How does that tile read in natural and artificial light, forget the camera?

In either case, here's another suggestion:

In both pictures, the right tile has a diagonal vein, kind of mushroomy brown, maybe with a hint of purple. Pull that color to the walls.

Again, the light matters a lot. Which of those pictures is flash, and which is natural?


Gravatar Go for the yellow and repaint.


Gravatar Well, having been commanded to come & comment...

You sound like you already like the yellow, so that's pretty much that.

I like them both, but I think the yellow is better suited to a home environment, and particularly to yours. The pink is a larger scale, I guess you'd say, and seems like it might be a bit much.

From the other photos I've seen, you have a lot of neutrals and soft colors in your house, which would work well with the neutral/earth tones in the yellow tile.

(And I can only assume that they're not nearly as mustardy as they look in that last picture!)

There. Can I go play Spades now?


Gravatar I like both, but I prefer the yellow. I was surprised at that, because I normally would be a rose/peach sort of girl. But I really do like the yellowish one best considering your cabinets.


Gravatar Chemist, it wasn't me, honest.

I would never disenfranchise a vote, even if I'm leaning against you on this one. But there is a tile yet to come. But the more I ponder it, the more I'm leaning to the yellow/gold.

And Toast, hardwood would look phenomenal, but it matched our cabinets almost exactly, which was overkill, and with the cats vomiting and scratching, etc., I decided that was not the best route.


Gravatar And Bob, didn't mean to leave you out. I just didn't get to you yet, and I knew you'd show up sooner or later anyway!


Gravatar I'm more of a Bamboo or Marmoleum™ guy myself, but our new (old) house has some fake stone vinyl tiles that look nice with our cherry cabinets—I can only imagine actual stone will look great.

Does you kitchen have fluorescent lighting? If the den is incandescent, that will account for the "yellowing."


Gravatar I would like to see shades of charcoal. I don't hate either of the two you have, but I'm not excited either. Somehow the pink and yellow tones seem a little dated. I would go for something a touch more neutral such as grey charcoal tones, it could be combined with some deep chocolate browns for a warmer feel. Hope that doesn't make your choice any more difficult. (Otherwise the yellow, if it's between the pictured two.)


Gravatar i like the redder tones.


Gravatar By the way, the brighter yellow picture is with a flash so it does bring out a LOT more color than is present except when direct sun hits it.

Nicole, charcoal would look pretty good in there and really tie into the counters, but since I want the same tile extending into the den, it won't work. Our den is already so dark I'd feel like I was in a black hole. Ditto for any brown tones. We do have a tile sample with brown tones and it just does not pop in the kitchen at all.


Gravatar If you are going to go with stone, the yellow looks like it will give you more options in the future if you want to change wall colors in 5-10 years. Can you get any slats of wood to lay down and look at the way you have with the stone tiles? I would really consider wood for the kitchen because of the pain factor of standing on tile while you cook and clean. We aren't getting any younger.


Gravatar AMARILLO!!!!!!!


Gravatar Then I favour the yellow


Gravatar Da nada, kona.


Gravatar Looks good, kona!


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