Metro tiles with grey grout - for a modern kitchen?

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So we have just had Howdens burford grey kitchen installed ...

www.howdens.com/product-range/kitchen-collection/kitchen-families/burford/burford-grey/

We're having Oak square edge laminate worktop and oak laminate flooring.

I love the metro tiles. I'm thinking of plain white, but using a grey grouting. However, all of the pictures I've seen of this combination have been on more traditional / victorian style kitchens and bathrooms.

Has anyone used this combination and happy / unhappy with it?

Thanks

I love metro tiles and have been using them for 10 years.
But I think that the dark grey looks better in a bathroom (we have this combo in our shower room). Perhaps its the link to public loos which is hard to forget (public loos tend to have the tiles with dark not white grout)...

For a kitchen I think white grout or very pale grey would look better.
But its your house and if you love it then go for it!

Hmm, I kind of agree with you Pannacotta.
I thought the grey would be more forgiving really than white too.
Maybe I go for steel splashback behind oven, but not sure how that would look next to white tiles?

We had white metro tiles and grout in our last kitchen and it was fine. I chose matt tiles as I thought they woudl be easier to keep clean and I was right.
We had the tiles on the splashback and they were fine too, I just wiped them down after cooking.

We had a black gloos kitchen in our last house, and used white metro tiles (bevelled edge) with white grout. I wouldn't do that again, I would definitely have darker grout a) because it got quite dirty looking and b) the tiles seem to all blend into one mass of white when it was done.

My husband was doing the tiling. He did the tiling but didn't grout them for weeks and in that time, it looked (from a distance) as though they had been grouted but in a darker colour (the 'gap' where the grout should be looked dark iyswim). I loved that look but didn't realise at the time you could get darker grout.

So, I would say don't make your mind up until the tiles are on the wall. Have a couple of days living with them "ungrouted" and see whether you like that loook / you think it works in your kitchen. If you do, go with the darker grout, if not, go with the white.

We got a very light grey with white beveled edge tiles in our kitchen. It looks great!,,