When you go contrast in colors with grout and tiles you are not getting perfect look for the first 2016 post. But that tiling in the shower having small cut at bottom was just not a good planning by tiler, and its not fixing job now its redoing whole bathroom now. And not aligning joints in the other post shower floor and mainfloor does not look too off as photo in clicked at an angle and separation between two floors will have glass or something. But not aligning up the walls is odd but still be affected by other factors

Thanks so much for the recommendations guys, really appreciate it! What colour would you recommend for the splashback if we're going glass? also we might be tenant in the property, will glass be okay there? (also.... how much more expensive is thus going to be that tile? I have no idea on costing here :S) Also I think I may have oversold the messyness of my cooking haha I'm not that bad but I do worry about discolouration of grout.

I have Grey lapparto tiles in bathroom floor and side all and high gloss tiles on wall below window. A bit of gloss is good.

https://pin.it/ARjf8pcGD https://pin.it/1QO0hvFhb Obvs green benchtop are a bad idea because I can’t find any non marble, modern, sleek examples which isn’t for your cottage. A couple or articles on green kitchens attached. Are you absolutely set on those tiles? What range of laminate does your cabinet maker use and we can look up colours?