Kitchen Plans and Indecisions...

Indecisions indeed...  Do you know how overwhelmed you feel when you walk into the big box stores and there are 50 gajillion choices for EVERYTHING?  Yeah, you know it.  I can hear your hearts speeding up just thinking about it...  Well, Saturday I took myself to Lowes to find a mosaic backsplash tile that would work with our existing cabinets and quartz countertop.  HOLY INDECISION BATMAN!  Waaayyyy too many choices.  I cannot even tell you how much time I wasted looking at tile.  The one saving grace was that I had my paint chips with me.
Let's start with how the kitchen looks now:

Yes, that is a black painted backsplash.  It's cool, it's edgy, it hides splatter like nobody's business and most importantly, it matches the bordering-on-super-ugly-quartz countertop.  Sigh.  Sometimes we work with what we have, right?
Here is a closer shot of said countertop:   

Don't get me wrong, this countertop is absolutely no maintenance.  It stays.  So do the cherry cabinets.  No matter how much I would LOVE to paint the uppers a beautiful cream color and leave the lowers cherry, the Hubby is not havin' it...  :-)  The compromise is a new backsplash, hardware, and paint on the walls.  Eventually, there will be a new chandelier and kitchen ceiling light as well, I'll show you those another time.  
Here are the two choices I narrowed down to:

We are having a tough time deciding, but I am partial to Choice #2 with the beautiful green through it and Hubby is partial to the sparkly glass tile in Choice #1.  They are both ok, but I keep thinking Choice #1 is just too busy for the eye.  AND the hardware choice I made looks awesome with Choice #2:

Just to give you another piece to the puzzle, here is a shot of one of our three pendant lights already in the kitchen:

To me, it just seems like Choice #2 was made for this kitchen...  But I may be biased...  ;-)
Let me know what ya'll think!
Happy Wednesday Everyone!  The week is almost half over...
Cheers!
M J