I just bought River White and am waiting on install. While looking at a stone yard that was out of River White stock, I saw one called Salinas White that was very pretty. Maybe ask about that one?

Thanks for your replies Debra and Errant!

Debra, I'm doing custom doors so I will be matching the doors to the counters rather than the other way around (easier!). I can bring the flooring sample there though. It doesn't really help because the lighting is so bad in the showroom that you really can't see the slab colours. The little samples are too small to get a feeling for the slab movement and variation.

My old kitchen isn't even demolished yet. Flooring is being redone - will be finished Mar 11. Then we are DIY installing IKEA cabinets (not very many though).

Errant, I found a photo of Salinas White - looks nice! My stoneyard doesn't stock it though. Congrats on choosing Valley White - looks beautiful.

This post was edited by feisty68 on Fri, Feb 28, 14 at 13:21

I wonder if the Salinas White has another name? When I did find a yard with my River White, I asked if they also had the Salinas so that I could compare the two, but they had never heard of it.

Kashmir White? Similar to River White with maybe slightly less movement. We just had it put in and it looks great

I looked at one of the stoneyards again. Colonial White is an option. I really don't like it as much as River White though. Panna Fragola is out of stock.

Why is this so hard?

I like Kashmir White as well, but it read as more beige than I was planning on - worried it wouldn't work as well with grey/stainless?

The lighting there is HORRIBLE. Everything greyish looks very greenish under the fluorescents.

Pretty good example of Colonial White installed. The dark dots are very prominent. To me, Valley White feels softer-looking.

Kashmir White looks really good here though:

feisty, what area are you in? Isn't there other stone yards within 50 miles? It may be worth the drive.

I'm in the Vancouver area. I investigated 3 stoneyards that are sold out of Valley White, but got leads on two others that I am going to call.

Have you looked at Bianco Romano? It is not as linear in pattern as River White, but has much of the same colors (varies of course depending on the individual slab).

It is funny that you found Kashmir white to be more beige -- the samples that I had were definitely cooler and greyer than River White.

Our Kashmir White definitely looks gray, but it has some swirls of a warmer griege as well. Painted the walls Revere Pewter this week, which is a warm gray. It looks like it was color matched to the counters.