Wednesday, April 08, 2009

stone island

there are a puzzling number of choices in this world when it comes to kitchen countertops: laminate, wood, steel, tile, concrete... for the island that forms the majority of our counterspace, we knew we wanted to go with a stone of some sort with the hopes that it would narrow the field somewhat.

well, it turns out there that there are tons.
Choices

visiting a stoneyard is like visiting museum filled with blown-up aerial maps and giant other-worldly specimens.

A Trip to Bedrock

Amazing Onyx
the yucatan peninsula?

Granite
pluto?

the sheer size of the island itself steered us away from dark colors which seem to comprise the majority of the granites out there.  after careful deliberation though in a surprisingly short amount of time, we settled on a large slab of calcutta gold marble.   its gold veins have just enough warmth to work with all the wood cabinets and floors.

here's a close-up of the its veining:
Calcutta Supreme Marble

plus, it has this huge river of gray running through the middle of it for interest.
Calcutta Supreme Marble

off to the fabricators it will go for sizing and shaping. we'll see it again in a few short weeks with a hole large enough for our sink.

2 comments:

Francesca Tronchin said...

DROOL!!

So envious, but also excited in a geeky way. I've been writing about how the ancient Romans collected pretty stone surfaces & this fits right in!

PS: the word verification thingy for this post is 'lates.' So, lates!

annie-san said...

LOL. glad to hear we have something in common with ancient romans...