More pictures of shower after another day and the pending floor tiles and mosaic that will go into shampoo alcove.

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it's starting to grow on me.....or maybe its just all forced love due to investment :) Anyone out there?

If you do a search for calacatta gold you will see many marble photos come up, many of which have no resemblance to each other. The stone you wanted was called calacatta oro select and has more undulating veining spaced further apart. It VERY expensive at about $22+ a sf and much more for the super premium quality. Whatever it's called, the marble you have is quite beautiful. Enjoy it for what it is and forget what it's supposed to look like :-).

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh thats what I was looking for. It's almost as if the samples they had at the store was the select version as there was single defined veinings with more white. Thank you so much for enlightening me. Now, onwards to my search for other samples.

You're very welcome. Are you using the basketweave over a larger area? It kind of fights with the marble as there is already so much pattern there. I would use a large format floor tile that matches the background color of the marble. You can inset strips of the marble into the solid floor or mix the tiles with strips of 1 x 1 calacatta mosaics to match your marble.

The basketweave will go into the shower pan. Heres the latest picture of more progress.

Akdo Basekweave with Lagos dots.

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This guy's doing an excellent job, and it's really easy to tell. In the first pic of the last post, look at the unfinished floor. See the reflection of the window in the face of the stone? See how it's a completely unbroken reflection? If there's a stone that's even a micron out of plane, that reflection would be broken. It wouldn't appear as one single reflection, going from tile to tile. You HAVE to have the tiles all flat and in plane to see that. This tells me this guy is taking his time, and takes pride in his work.

The reflection never lies!! :-)

Great job!

Never realized this was a "tell" but totally makes sense. Thanks Blondelle and Bill for the education and reassurance. I'm looking forward to seeing the outcome in a few days when the grount lines are filled. Two more months to go for the home.

Now we debating between statuary marble, caesarstone blizzard or raven, henry IV marble, or calacatta oro marble slab for bathroom countertops. We are installing the white shaker style cabinets this weekend.

Beautiful!

If you post a photo of the cabinet after it's installed I will show you what it looks like with different countertop choices. Post a shot of the entire cabinet and also a long shot showing a view of the surrounding bath. Whether it's dark or light, I think with all that pattern it should be a solid color, or a marble slab with limited veining.

looks great!

i think alot of choices are like that...so much time is spent with the decision making and envisioning the final result that sometimes if it varies alittle from the image you had in your mind you feel dissatisfaction even tho the final product is beautiful. glad it's 'growing on you'!

Cabinets are going in tomorrow or Saturday, so I'll post a picture immediately after. I been spending all day reading the other posts that Blondelle and Bill have been contributing to as well. Love the Gardenweb community!

I think it's gorgeous!!! Wait til the grout goes in- it makes a huge difference. If it's looking a little busy for you, use a white grout instead of a taupe one.

I agree, use while grout. I would go for a darker vanity to balance out the lightness. Nice job on the choices!

I'd go with a light grey. This one is carrara with Laticrete Silver Shadow:

This one is a calacatta gold look alike, again with Silver Shadow:

Thanks for sharing your delightful photos! I think we're going with a greyish white grout to match the dominant tile background. Here's a pic of our initial cabinet progress. Theres a vanity "her" table sitting on top of the left cabinet box. That will sit between the his and her vanities at a lower height. I'll take better pictures of the doors tomorrow when installed. Basically, Sollera cabinets with white recessed panel doors trimmed with small ogee inside shaker doors.

Your tile contractor is an artist and a superb craftsman. Those walls really flow.

Here's the updated pictures of the cabinets in as promised. We leaning towards a statuary marble countertop as the caesarstone (concrete and raven) samples didn't seem to work out too well across a 14 ft counter span. Any other recommendations?

We're considering getting two of these for the bathroom countertop, and also the kitchen island.

I love your bathroom!! Someday I would love to do Calcutta in our master bath. I think that slab would be gorgeous for the countertops. We just did a statuary white marble floor in our powder room and I love the look of it. For our grout we used Laticrete's silver shadow because I didn't want white or anything too dark. It is a nice light grey grout color.

For your countertops I suggest a contrasting color. I like something dark such as green marble like Verde Antique or soapstone as a contrast. Maybe green marble is too busy and a calming soapstone with few veins will complement all the movement of your beautiful marble.
We did our master bath with honed Imperial Danby marble floors with green verde antique accents and they look great together. I used medium gray grout on the floor - TEC silverado on my Calacatta floor in the guest bath and TEC dove gray on the Danby floor. Both are nice but the silverado is less likely to show dirt as it ages. I'll post a photo (as soon as I learn how to).

Here's a couple pictures to show you contrasting color:

Honed Calacatta (TEC silverado grout) with a Verde Antique tile:

Honed Imperial Danby marble floor with Verde Antique accents. Floor grout is TEC Dove Gray.

We ended up with selecting the statuary marble to split between the bath and kitchen. Thanks everyone for their ideas, pictures and help!

finocchia-- that danby marble with the verde antique bathroom looks amazingly similar to a bathroom I did several years ago, with carrara and empress green!

@Emma - I love the statuary slab; and the darker countertop behind the island really breaks up the white kitchen in a good way. What is that countertop material? Soapstone?

we decided to go with caesarstone in Concrete color. We were pleasantly surprised with the perfect contrast to the island grey veining. Thanks!