Design advice for tile floor transition...What would you do?

[Stephanie Anson]

I have a kitchen that I am trying to save the tile...almost finished the project and maybe should have just ripped it out. When they put the kitchen cabinets in they did not quite fit so there is a 1 inch gap between tile and cabinet. The cabinet installers put wood in to fill in the gap. How can I bridge this gap? They are dark cabinets so not sure if baseboard and a corner round would look right???

Also, there is a laundry room and a Pantry that connects to this kitchen. The hot water heater was in the pantry/closet and it had leaked so we moved it and also had to remove the tile floor underneath. I cannot match the tile exactly so trying to figure out options for both spaces. My thoughts were create a transition and then use a darker tile in the closet and laundry room vs try to match main tile. Someone at lowes suggested I just use a marble threshold but I was not sure if they would feel to choppy. What do you think?

Option for Marble Threshord

Tile color is on bottom right hand corner. Would use 2 strips to create transition and turn darker tile on a diamond pattern

View from Kitchen to Laundry room

View from laundry to kitchen