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Help! Need Input Re 6cm Thick Laminated Marble Island Top
Comments (4)With a marble, unless you are doing an ogee or dupont type edge, you want a mitered edge, not a laminated edge. A laminated edge is two pieces of marble stacked together with the seam in the middle of the two pieces.. It does not look good with a light colored stone with veining. The seam is very apparent and the veining does not match up. A mitered edge, a mitered frame is built around the sides of the 3cm countertop & the seam is at the top of the 90 degree edge. You don't have to go a full 6cm. You should be able to get any thickness you want. If your fabricator has done this type of edge many times, you should be okay. There have been a couple of people here that thought they were getting a mitered edge and it was laminated, and they were unhappy with the result. If it is a dark stone or a stone with a dense tight pattern, a laminated edge can be invisible. If you do a google search "gardenweb kitchen forum, mitered edge", there are several threads about mitered and laminated edges....See MoreThickness of Marble Island countertop
Comments (13)i think a forum is good for queries that collect responses over a long time period, measured in weeks not days or hours. if there is not a lot of traffic on this forum this weekend, wait wait and wait. afaik, one can do 2cm, and afaik, there will be people talking about risk in both cases. Some people, who are not used to any discussion of risk, do not get it. Once risk is raised as a subject, they get reduced into something less than they once were. Risk is not what will happen in the future, it is a means to evaluate possible outcomes. Trying to overkill once you learn a bit about risk often leads to problems. NOw, one company said one thing about 2cm thickness. Hmmm. Sounds like they are deliberately pulling FUD tactics on you so you end up becoming trigger happy. ("FUD" means that your mind is now inhabited by irrational emotions that make you into a buyer, not an information-seeker, and a buyer who will go with anyone who reassures you somehow. FUD stands for fear, uncertainty and doubt.) Just tell that one guy that millions of people have uncracked counters of either thickness. I hereby submit one unit of reassurance to your account. I do this without selling you a product....See MorePlease post pics of your wood cabinets w/ diff color wood island
Comments (18)Thanks again to everyone for responding. We had not considered a white island, but that is something to thinks about. Wow, kalapointer, thanks for posting the pics of your cabinetry. The colors are very close to what we were thinking of. We're beginning to back off the dark cherry, though, because of worries about its darkening further -- with only one window (and a large skylight), our kitchen might not be as bright as yours. We're not sure. Cabinet buy says cherry darkens, but maple yellows ... editionk, you're right, kpasso's kitchen looks very similar to ours, it's about the same size, and it's laid out almost exactly the same with a similar size island! It's very helpful to see those pics. And in answer to your questions: (1) Do you have a pantry / larger food storage somewhere that I don't see in your layouts? Yep -- in the second picture you can see a door beyond the fridge. That's the door to the utility/laundry room. The pantry is to your left as you go through the door :-) (2) Have you considered changing the door/drawer on the left of the stove to a bank of drawers? Ditto on the one on the left of the sink. Hadn't thought about that. I think the only three-drawer stacks now are next to the dishwasher (for utensils) and across from the sink on the island. (3) You mentioned dark areas/shadowy areas in your house. A dark red cherry finish in a kitchen with just one window might feel too dark. A few glass uppers can lighten the look a lot along with the right paint and backsplash. What are you thinking so far for those elements? We are planning glass uppers on all the upper cabinets around the sink (two to the right, one to the left) and there are 1-foot cabinets on the wall across from the sink that don't show up in these renderings but that also have glass uppers. We were going to do glass uppers around the range as well, but decided that was too much. (4) Will you have a microwave? I think I see a TV in the layout, but no micro (unless it's in the island). Yes. The microwave will sit on the counter in the corner under the TV. My husband doesn't think it's safe to lift possibly heavy hot dishes from a raised area, and I see his point. (5) I expected your door style would be Craftsman considering the renderings and your description, but the Merillat door style is quite traditional. The cherry Paprika color is nice, is that what you're considering? I think that is the name of the color. It does seem to be pretty dark when you look on their website. I am not sure what a Craftsman door style is, but the cabinet design guy has mentioned Shaker style a few times. It's a bit too plain for our tastes, though. We are also considering Kraftmaid cabinets. The frameless drawers are appealing because they have several inches more width for the same cabinet size. But the design we like would be about 35% more (!) than the Merillat Classic because not only is Kraftmaid more to start with, the design is much fancier, including curved wood on the face of the cabinet door. I can't remember the style name and it doesn't look easy to find on the Kraftmaid website. I wonder if those fancy doors would overwhelm our smallish kitchen anyway....See MoreWrap post next to island before or after countertop install??
Comments (1)This post is 8x8 at corner of our island. They were out to template yesterday. We were thinking of wrapping post after install of countertops and notch in the wrap, so that the countertop was continuous with no gaps, but without having our wrap picked out yet, and not knowing thickness, not sure if that will be an issue, or if we can adjust that to make it work after tops are installed? If that makes sense?...See MoreJoseph Corlett, LLC
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