I had remarkably little luck looking up either color by name on the Kelly Moore website (bad developer!) or finding a pic with a Google image search (which almost always works). My Perfect Color turned up a Columbia Paint color called Feather Stone and a peachy yellow called Sin City.

All of which kind of makes it difficult to give advice. But if the feather stone works with the granite and wall color (ask your friend), I would look at doing that, or a slightly lighter/darker version of it, for the backsplash.

I took some photos today and just managed to get them uploaded.

Here's one of the kitchen, showing the counters, the "sinners city" wall color, and the location where the sapphire blue hood will go:

And here's one of the very left end of the kitchen and a big part of the neighboring dining nook that has the "feather stone" color on its walls:

The colors in those look fairly accurate on the calibrated monitor I'm using at the moment. To my inaccurate eyes, anyway.

Just for kicks, here's a photo of the backyard showing what's going on with the Bobcat outside the funky corner windows in the second picture:

That album link has a few more photos.

I'd still love to hear any advice you all have on the backsplash color. I think my default choice will be to do what cawaps suggested: the same "feather stone" color as the walls in the nearby dining nook.

Thanks!

Laura

Bump. I need to learn to stop posting things late at night. They seem to get a lot fewer responses that way.

I think I'd consider a slate[ look- a- like] or actual slate and pull in the counter color in the choice.. remember- the cherry cabs are going to deepen and probably redden a bit-there is a lot of uV...so the nice deep rich look flowing between cabs and backsplash would appeal to me.....and the space is quite large and open to handle this kind of look. Any fear of being too dark or whatever wouldn't worry me because of the big windows, light, and open plan you have..It looks good-add texture and depth. Matching the wall color seems too tame.

herbflavor: I think you're right about going with something more bold that pulls in the countertop colors. I don't think the texture of real slate would work there, but some of the colors might. The Azul do Mar quartzite has a lot of blue, gray, and even brown colors in it ({{gwi:1911979}} is fairly representative of mine), so I should have lots of choices.

I stopped by Kelly Moore with a piece of extra stone today and grabbed sample color chips of a bunch of blues that look like they might work. Now to ask all my non-color-blind friends. Once I have a few good candidates I'll get sample quarts and paint some on the back of pieces of glass so I can lean them against the wall at the house and see how they look in real life.

A couple of the colors that seemed like they might work are ones that I've already used in other parts of the house. (I like blue.) That might help tie the whole house together color-wise.