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Oct. 31st, 2006 08:24 amOver the weekend we installed the cabinets that Ernie built last week:
He wanted to put the same granite that we have in the kitchen (which is to the left through a large archway) but I wanted to make some distinction between the entryway and the kitchen, especially since the cabinets are the same.
It only took us two trips this time - the first time we took samples of the ones we liked, brought them home, and discovered that none of them worked. The prettiest one was just too light - with the dark slate floor we need something dark above the cabinets. Another favorite was all shades of grey and white - not enough color. The most colorful one had no movement in it. We like movement.
So we went back thinking we'd go back to two previous favorites - the "pink parfait" which looks like pink sand as a white wave is passing over it, or one of the marinace granites. Marinaces are were formed in riverbeds so they're essentially slabs cut through river stones with a matrix holding them together. The matrix provides color sometimes - there are red, and black versions where the space inbetween the stones is strongly red or strongly black. There's verde marinace where the matrix is a pale green. The one we chose is called blue marinace, or "aquarius". The matrix is a neutral grey (maybe ever so slightly bluish) and there are a lot of stones with sort of sparkly turquoise blue. The slab looks like this, with the area for the countertop marked out:
The only thing I don't like about this granite is that some of the stones are of a color and texture that they remind me of liver cross-sections:
The part of our slab that we marked off doesn't have any of those and has more of the sparkly blue stones and the strawberry-ice-cream pink stones.
There are so many beautiful stones. There's one that I love that's a pure black with a few striations of a perfect salmon pink. Like this:
only with more black, and pink instead of white.
Very classy, very mid-century. It would be perfect for around a fireplace.
He wanted to put the same granite that we have in the kitchen (which is to the left through a large archway) but I wanted to make some distinction between the entryway and the kitchen, especially since the cabinets are the same.
It only took us two trips this time - the first time we took samples of the ones we liked, brought them home, and discovered that none of them worked. The prettiest one was just too light - with the dark slate floor we need something dark above the cabinets. Another favorite was all shades of grey and white - not enough color. The most colorful one had no movement in it. We like movement.
So we went back thinking we'd go back to two previous favorites - the "pink parfait" which looks like pink sand as a white wave is passing over it, or one of the marinace granites. Marinaces are were formed in riverbeds so they're essentially slabs cut through river stones with a matrix holding them together. The matrix provides color sometimes - there are red, and black versions where the space inbetween the stones is strongly red or strongly black. There's verde marinace where the matrix is a pale green. The one we chose is called blue marinace, or "aquarius". The matrix is a neutral grey (maybe ever so slightly bluish) and there are a lot of stones with sort of sparkly turquoise blue. The slab looks like this, with the area for the countertop marked out:
The only thing I don't like about this granite is that some of the stones are of a color and texture that they remind me of liver cross-sections:
The part of our slab that we marked off doesn't have any of those and has more of the sparkly blue stones and the strawberry-ice-cream pink stones.
There are so many beautiful stones. There's one that I love that's a pure black with a few striations of a perfect salmon pink. Like this:
only with more black, and pink instead of white.
Very classy, very mid-century. It would be perfect for around a fireplace.
