New Granite Counter Tops

I have one word of advice for anyone who has every thought of installing granite counter tops in their home. Don't buy from Lowe's or Home Depot. The prices that can be found at your local shops iare much better and the selection of Stones are infinite.

We used Angie's list to find our fabricator (Queen City Kitchen and Bath) . They are a family owned and operated business that is very knowledgeable and friendly. By using a fabricator you have the option of visiting the local Granite distribution warehouse. This place has hundreds of slabs of granite to choice from. You can't buy from them but the will let you know the range that you are looking at. Once you find a slab you like the will hold it and the fabricator can then buy the slab for your project. We visited Granite Depot, one of our local warehouses a number of times until we found the slab we liked.

Our Selected Slab

 Once the slab was purchased we made an appointment with the fabricator to template our kitchen for the counter tops. This took a full day as his computer was running a bit slow. That following Saturday Kristin and I went to Queen City to lay out the counter top. They have the lay out done up in plastic sheets that they can overlay on the stone so you can pick which parts of the slab you want in each part of the counter top. Very nice option.

One week later the counter tops were fab'd and the installation was on its way.

 The fit was a bit tight so they had to cut into the wall a bit to get the counter tops to fit. The back splash will hide all of that.

The Finished Product!!!!!!!!!!

Our Island

The Main Counter Space

 You will definitely not find any stones that look like that at your big box store.