help me decide on kitchen and bathroom paint and tiles

[Thandeka]

Kitchen units are white, floor is slate effect lino, worktop is walnut.

We are thinking shades of duck egg through to teal..... for either the tiles or the paint but cant work out best options

So either white tiles and a duck eggy wall (but too much white with units?)

or greeny tiles and white walls (but again too much white with units?)

Thinking paint and tiles being too greeny is overkill but really struggling here!

Also need help with tiles as can't find a nice 15cm by 30cm greeny tile I like anywhere.

so either go victorian brick tiles or slightly bigger 10cm by 20cm - but we were planning just a single run of tiles around apart from at back of cooker and think 10cm is too thin...

Have looked at glass splashbacks and upstands but nature of space means would cost us a fortune!

any musings....?

anyone? sob

I love white tiles with white units I think it looks classic and never dates.Then I would get some testers of various duck egg blues and live with it for a week or two.I had that sort of kitchen and had deep rose walls and it was lovely

Another for white tiles. You can get coloured accessories easy and those are easy to replace. Tiles are not, especially if you make a mistake!

Check out 'Tons of tiles' online for lovely tiles. We bought some crackle glazed brick shaped tiles from here, and they are identical to Fired Earth ones. A lovely mumsnetter gave me this info so now I'm doing my good deed and passing it on. They will send you samples.

I had white brick shaped matt tiles with off white painted units in our last kitchen, with a beech worktop and it looked really good, clean and classic. I had stainless steel appliances to keep it modern.
So yes another vote for white tiles.
Rose walls sounds like a nice change from the usual colours.