Kitchen Remodel: Counters
We bought the bookends of two big granite slabs from Brazil.
I LOVE the red part of the granite, and used it as much as I could.
Here are some pix to show you the progress.
The slabs we bought were called a "bookmatched set." I called them bookends. They are two pieces of granite, cut one right after the other, but are polished on opposite sides. The purpose of these bookends is to enable you to have virtually seamless seems. The fabricators can match up the seams beautifully if you have large pieces that need to be seemed together.
If you don't NEED to have bookends, do NOT pay the extra premium for them!! We had NO idea they would cost us an extra $1000!!! We were told to buy them and we did, only to find out we didn't need the bookmatched set, because our one seem couldn't be matched up exactly given the size and shape of our kitchen. Fortunately, having the bookends worked out well for us, because we were able to use all of the red parts of the granite on all my favorite places, and my kitchen turned out even better than we had hoped for. But yowza, what a price jump!!
The granite slab fabrication company was a bit old school. They templated the counters using balsa wood, and then taped the templates onto the granite slabs. The teeny square in the corner is for our powder room which is adjacent to our kitchen. We'll use the leftover pieces for the upstairs bathrooms later this month.
Each piece weighed about 400 pounds! Whew!!!
Kitchen sink slab on the left, peninsula slab on the right
The granite looks different at every angle, and with light changes too.
Aren't they pretty?
We chose a Typhoon Bordeaux granite, 3cm, from Brazil. I love them!!
Here's a preview of the powder room...
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