Kitchen Selection.......check!!!

 Kitchen cabinets have been selected! Whew, so relieved we have the decision made! We met with our builder today and finalized the selection, we still need to meet with the kitchen designer and finalize the order which we will do next week, but I am so glad to have the decision made! And made with absolutely no time to spare! We will really be pushing our deadline to finish, but Shane and I really aren't super concerned about it, and I certainly have peace about it and trusting God!

We ended up selecting the cabinets I initially had quoted and loved! No other place could compare in terms of price and quality of paint finish. Our builder did increase our cabinet budget $2000 when he learned just how pricy painted cabinets were...yes, it is crazy, but painted cabinets are quite a bit more expensive then stained! So without further ado, here is what I selected (and I will say 'I', because if Shane had any say, he would have chosen quarter sawn oak, but he generously conceded all kitchen selections to me because let me assure you I do 100% of the cooking and it really doesn't matter to him what the kitchen looks like, besides, its not like I am going to go design his 'workshop'! Totally love my husband!!!) Okay, back to revealing my selection:

Shiloh Inset Shaker Style Maple Cabinets with 5 piece drawers in the color Polar. Its a nice warm white, without looking creamy. We will be matching all the trim work to this color.

 Now, I need to make my counter top selection. I stopped in at a locally owned counter top place to see what they offered in quartz, which was about every quartz manufacturer and every color they offer! I selected 5 that ranged in prices and had to send a bid to my builder, who said any would be in budget. Here are the two I am leaning towards...

Seleno on the left and Sechura Mocha on the right

Seleno quartz...it grabbed my attention, but I first dismissed it because I knew it was on the pricy end of quartz. I feel like it carries a similar look to some granite, but the pattern is consistent (which the craziness of granite has been my drawback) plus it has the dark brown specks that I have been searching for in all the slabs of granite we looked at to try and tie in my back splash.

Close up of the Sechura Mocha, it immediately caught my eye, its made up of beautiful browns with flecks of mirror that just make it sparkle! My fear is it is too dark to do all over with also doing my brown glass tile for back splash, so considering maybe just doing the island in it, or switching to white glass tile for back splash...what do you think?

 The two colors go really well together, but I had never considered doing two different colors for the perimeter of the kitchen and island, mainly because it kinda goes 'against my grain' in needing things uniform. But the idea is slowly growing on me.