[Shop-talk] Alternative kitchen countertops?

[pethier at comcast.net]

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> From: "Scott" <scott.hall.personal at gmail.com>
> To: shop-talk at autox.team.net
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 11:42:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Alternative kitchen countertops?


> What are the seams like, Phil? 

What seams?  I don't see any.  I don't know how they did that.

> Does it look like a normal granite
> countertop, or is it more like those 'granite' counterpanes I see that
> are really floor tiles? 

Not tiles.  The material looks seamless including all the way around the two 45s we have for the big bevel at the front edge.

> My wife would like granite counters, but I've
> been lobbying for 4x4 tile on cost. If the granite transformations
> look
> like the traditional granite she wants,

Take her to their showroom.  I think she will be impressed.  Sue originally wanted granite look (we have a wheeled island from Fleet Farm [really!] with a slab of granite on top), and the granitetranformations looked good, but when she saw the sea-shells she had to have them.

> I'll cave.

I didn't care.  She doesn't get to design my shop, so she can do what she wants with her kitchen.

> On 1/31/2013 12:02 AM, pethier at comcast.net wrote:
> > We went with granitetransformations.  Grey material with sea-shells
> > embedded.  They have a kind of 3D iridescence Sue likes.  Fits
> > right
> > over the old Formica and looks great.  No problems with heat, and
> > we
> > don't have to seal it. Phil Ethier