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We're going to find ourselves at the granite warehouse... and overwhelmed by all the beautiful choices!!! How to choose?!

Hey Smoodgie... great pics... but don't make this any more difficult then it has to be

Hehehehe!! Sorry about that!!

You should bring a cabinet door with you to the granite place so you can hold it up against the different types of granite and see which ones look best. Do you have any leftover floor tiles you could bring too??

Great suggestion, Smoodgie... yes, we can bring both a door and a tile with us. We'll also bring the granite sample I have. Hopefully we'll be going soon!! We're waiting to hear from the counter guy so that we know which warehouse he wants us to go to (he mentioned two... maybe we go to both?). I'm hoping to hear from him today.

Hi Tango! Nice to "meet" you and your beautiful new kitchen! I only skimmed the posted but did look at your progress pics...beautiful choices so far! Love love love the apron sink! and that you did the floor tiles staggered instead of the usual...much more interesting. Keep the pics a comin'...

teucer Wrote:Nice to "meet" you and your beautiful new kitchen!

Nice to meet you, too, Teucer!

teucer Wrote:...beautiful choices so far! Love love love the apron sink!

Thanks... I really appreciate the kudos!!
As for my new sink... I'm having a love affair with it!!! I'm a little worried about how the sink will look when the counter is installed - it's undermounted and the granite will be thick... oh well... not much I can do about it now!

teucer Wrote:...and that you did the floor tiles staggered instead of the usual...much more interesting.

Thanks Teucer! I really enjoyed laying this floor. I've completed a few tiling projects, with some terrific floor patterns... I had to compete with myself or be board!

teucer Wrote:Keep the pics a comin'...

I'd love to!!!
Sweetie invited me to post pics of our condo remodel... we did a lot there... I didn't want to hog "forum time" so I've been waiting a bit. In about a week - when I'm going through posting-pic-withdraw - I'll start a new thread and share our projects.

This forum is so much fun!!
Vickie

There's no such thing as hogging forum time!!!! Have you seen how many times I've posted pics of and questions about my living room and accessories?!

Get those condo pics posted NOW!! And that's an order!!

Hi Tangotori...I am with everybody on that one...let's see pics.
You are right, this is a great forum.
Good job to all of you who set this up!!

Hmmmm... counter tops...
We've had two $4300 quotes (not including taxes). Yikes!
I finally tracked down the granite cutter guy (Robert) that my interior designer friend turned me on to (the guy who cut our master bathroom granite)... he's agreed to come by this afternoon to measure and provide a quote. I'm hoping he'll come significantly under these other two quotes!

I've also pretty much decided on a backsplash tile... well, the accent part anyway. It's very expensive tile - about $25 a sq.ft - so that's why we're using it as an accent. It's so beautiful, though!! It's a little 1x1 inch mosiac tile that looks like shell. I wish I had taken a photo of it... maybe I'll drop by the tile shop tomorrow and take a pic. I'm looking at pairing it up with a taupe-coloured subway tile (some period charm) with a matte finish (contemporary looking). I'll take a pic of the two together and you can tell me what you think.

Well... I had better get to work since I'm leaving early to meet RGG (Robert the Granite Guy!).

So RGG came by this afternoon... interesting visit! As I mentioned earlier, we have two quotes in hand - one was made sight unseen (based on drawings with measurements) and the other was measured by the granite-cutter's representative (i.e., not an expert) - the deal is that the cutter we choose will come in to prepare an accurate template before they cut. Anyway, RGG IS the cutter, so he was talking to me about all my options, the challenges of the job (and there are a few!) and so on. Like I said... interesting!

So challenges...
There's going to have to be a join - the question is where... and the where depends on how I want the granite cut around the sink.
If I want the granite surrounding the sink to be contoured around the back corners, I have to have a join in a major part of the counter (on the other side of the diswasher). If I go for a clean, non-contoured cut (i.e., squared corners), I can have the join at one corner of the sink so that the large piece over the dishwasher and the around the far corner can be one large piece. This is likely the option I will choose cause I don't want a join in a large piece - the graining will be disrupted. It's just that the sink would look better with the other contoured option. Oh well... I wanted a apron-fronted sink, so I have to deal with the design challenges that come with it!

(hope all the above makes sense!)

RGG wants me to go and pick out my slab tomorrow so that he can work his quote! I'll take pics and post them so you can see what I choose... or so that you can help me choose!!

What kind of stove is that? I really want to get a new stove and
get rid of this glass top stove that I detest!!!!!
Is that one you would recommend. I want to go gas, well actually it will
have to be propane-hook up. I love to cook and glasstop just doesn't cut it!!

Kitchen is going to be fabulous!!