I'll admit, it was hard to look past all of the honey oak EVERYWHERE when we bought our house . . . But the layout worked well and we had a vision. Now we love our kitchen! We started by finding a tile for the back splash. We looked at hundreds and landed a honed cararra marble laid in a chevron pattern. Then we painted the cabinets a light grey to pull out the grey veining in the tile (the paint was two shades lighter than the walls but still in the same color family). Altho