I'd go with whatever gives you the smoothest edge, as I think the angles (in your close-up pic) look to hard against the style of cupboard doors. I also think the doors give enough details without the bench top providing more.

Ok but check again what you’ve got - hex tiles will be above what ? Sink stove or benchtop. How do they go with vivid white cabinetry? Visually in kitchen you’ll see the bench against wall paint or splashback but vertically mostly splashback against cabinetry with just horizontal line of bench so Grey you’ve chosen prob good contrast. Re tiles you have to change are they laundry tiles or are they fixed? I don’t think benchtop in laundry and kitchen have to match just blend so could have white bench in laundry and Grey in kitchen ESP if laundry will be dark. But as you don’t really see bench against floor it don’t really matter if both Grey. In one unit I had ceasarstone urban grey kitchen benchtop with laminate polar white cabinetry and Grey floor tiles which extended into laundry but darker Grey laminate bench in laundry and looked very stylish

Hi Again. I hope I am placing this in the right place. We have finally finished the laundry splashback so I am wanting to show photos particularly to those that offered advice before. I can't believe 4 months have passed since then. Between personal issues and the Covid we had to put on hold for a while. Anyway, we settled on Pressed Tine in a simple pattern which we painted gloss black. My only regret is the white switches and power points (as we never thought would go black), but hope to change that soon. Hope you all love it as much as we do.

I like option 1 too, if you are worried about them not being big enough, can you find something like that, but that is bigger than the 16cm? Also, you could go three, I'm posting our former kitchen reno for you, the bench length is 1600 and our pendants were probably around a similar diameter, possibly slighly bigger, and given how heavy ours were in comparison to what you have chosen I definitely think you could get away with three if you liked the look better.