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Granite • Re: Granite re-do? 22 Aug 2013 | 12:26 pm
Your Kitchen looks great-Honing to a uniform matte finish may work for you- Consider an antiqued finish as well. You may be surprised. Have a stone refinisher or fabricator do some samples for you and...
Granite • Re: Granite re-do? 22 Aug 2013 | 12:24 pm
I have to laugh as my kitchen looks exactly like yours and I love it. Maybe you should consider only changing the counter where the bar stools are, a dark brown like snookums suggested might look nice...
Granite • Re: Granite re-do? 22 Aug 2013 | 12:23 pm
I think your granite is neutral and tame enough that surrounding furnishings/artwork will not compete with it or look awkward. Statistics: Posted by melissajohn51 — August 22nd, 2013, 12:53 pm
Granite • Re: Granite re-do? 22 Aug 2013 | 12:21 pm
That stone sure is beautiful, as is your kitchen. Too bad it isn't quite you. It could be really pretty honed too. It would look softer and the colors would lighten, so maybe that would look less busy...
Granite • Re: Granite re-do? 22 Aug 2013 | 12:20 pm
My granite has only been in for several weeks and oh my how I love looking at it. Last night I told DH I just keep focusing on something new in the granite. He thought I meant it in a bad way. What I ...
Granite • Re: Granite re-do? 22 Aug 2013 | 12:17 pm
Your granite might be stealing the show but thats because it has no competition. I agree that marble or some other toned down surface would look blah. From what little I can see you granite looks grea...
Granite • Re: Granite re-do? 22 Aug 2013 | 12:14 pm
Thanks for the article.. I will study it, as kitchens it seems are a metaphor for life, and yes I agonized over every bit of the kitchen, which I would do all differently today. The cabinet designer h...
Granite • Re: Granite re-do? 22 Aug 2013 | 12:11 pm
Stop looking at other kitchens and listening to people "rhapsodize" about their marble!! Seriously, you are just torturing yourself by adopting other people's snooty mindsets of "sniff...sniff...grani...
Granite • Re: Granite re-do? 22 Aug 2013 | 12:10 pm
I know that not busy granite has become more popular, and even granite bashing, but your granite doesn't really seem busy to me, as it is absorbed by all that neutral white cabinetry and flooring. To ...
Granite • Re: Granite re-do? 22 Aug 2013 | 12:05 pm
Thanks all for the kind words... I guess as a stand alone it works, my problem is the kitchen is tied to living, family and dining and entry rooms so I feel like they all have to be toned down to acce...
