My island slab - Blue Louise/Van Gogh!
I am so excited to have put down the deposit on this scrumptious quartzite today!!! Our island will only take a fraction of it so we'll have to figure out where exactly on the slab we will want. Also, considering ditching the prep sink on the island, just because this slab is so gorgeous.
YIPPEEEEEEE!!
drbeanie
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2004 'AEN' Supplement Rose List April 2005
Comments (2)Jeri, Please don’t consider your input nit picking I welcome it. Only by pointing out corrections to these rose lists will it better serve there primary purpose. While I encourage corrections, e-mail is preferred as listed in header. Will do my best to answer some of your questions. “Irene Watts” is a Hybrid China 1896; it was changed and has to be exhibited as “Pink Gruss an Aachen” a Floribunda as the >>>>> indicates, similar to many other rose changes on the list. It’s also shown in the Floribunda class, as “Pink Gruss an Aachen” helping avoid any confusion. “Glendora” in the Hybrid Perpetual class should have had >>>>> indicating to See: “Joasine Hanet”. “Joasine Hanet” a Portland without the date 1882 but >>>>> indicated an addition to the name was missing. On subject of “Joasine Hanet”, In today’s May 2005 list of supplements to the 2005 “AEN”, I have “Joasine Hanet” listed as missing a DQ rose indication in the latest AEN, the entry should be DELETED. Working off two lists, ended up with “Joasine Hanet” and “Johasine Hanet” data, the latter of which is listed as a DQ in the 2005 an AEN. Another rose to DELETE is Pam’s Pink a “Found” rose that was to be removed from the 2004 list. I could not find “The Portland from Glendora” in the 2005 AEN, but there was a “Portland from Glendora” See; “Joasine Hanet”. Without knowing your involvement in roses, if you just like to grow roses or are also involved in exhibiting them. If you just grow roses, the information on the garden web forum will keep you posted on corrections and some of the new roses introduced. If you exhibit roses, there are rules and regulations everyone must follow. One rule has to do with the using the correct names of a rose. This is where the 2005 Official List of Approved Exhibition Names “AEN’s” comes in. It is one of the official ARS publications, which judges and exhibitors use to verify a roses name. Released in March, is supplemented each month with information from ARS publications until the next years AEN is published. Not every one that exhibits roses belongs to “ARS” and receives ARS latest publications. This is one reason for listing the new names of roses on the GW Forum and keeping these posts up front where others can benefit from them. Once posted to, moves the post down the line. Ron Schwerdt 5-31-05...See MorePlease share the price per square foot of Blue Louise granite
Comments (5)Bumping 'cause we're on the hunt for our island. One place in greater Boston already claimed Blue Loiuse was over 75% of a 13,000 quote including fabrication, just for the island. Our island can be done, or modified to fit one ~117 inch slab. Where do we look for raw material, BL, granite online? These numbers are just crazy and make shipping across the country look reasonable on a $3,000 slab. But where? thanks....See MoreNeed a good site to view exotic granites and other stone slabs
Comments (5)Try www.graniteland.com (European based, better info but names don't always match with what's available in US) and granite stock (I think it's granitestock.com). As you may have gathered from my name, I'm obsessed with my azul macaubas granite and thus spent a lot of time searching for just the right stone. I don't know what color you're looking for, but here are some suggestions: Blue Louis/Luisa/Louise aka Van Gogh (wild artsy turquoise with heavy brownish swirls); Red Dragon (the reddest granite I've ever seen); igloochic's pegmatite granite on this forum (looks kind of like fossilized eggs sliced thin); blue bahia (blue with black -- there's a gorgeous example in the fkb), and of course my personal favorite, azul macaubas (like the sky on a summer day with wisps of white clouds). Most of the pricey granites are in the range of $70-120/sf, wholesale, material only, without fabrication (another $30-50/sf or more). Blues are more expensive than other colors. Lapis and sodalite (semi-precious gemstones being used for kitchen countertops) are $200/sf. To compare, the least expensive granites are $10/sf material only ($56/sf fabricated at HD). YMMV. Also, if you will limit the use to a powder bathroom and other low-traffic areas, you can choose onyx and marble. My local high end place had a gorgeous onyx with a fossilized nautilus shell embedded in it. HTH, and look for pix next week!...See MoreBlue Louise
Comments (15)Hi Cienza, Blue Louise or Van Gogh is a gorgeous granite. I can see why you like it. I wish I had more information for you. The swirly blue, yellow, green patterns filled with veins and excitement are often expensive, but oh so worth the goregous look. Here are a few images. ~boxerpups Tile Warehouse Inc....See Moremmhmmgood
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12 years agoYou can always have a positive reveal on the sink with the cutout from the sink resting on that lip with a handhole to be able to put it elsewhere when you need access to the sink. Similar to a custom cutting board that rests on the sink reveal. On a small thicker gauge sink, it wouldn't be too heavy to do that with. And you'd still get the effect of an uninterrupted stone.
Or, you could pick a sink that worked in shape with the "waves" in the granite and do it in a complimentary cast iron color like Kohler's Cobalt Blue. It would look like a lake in the river of the granite. (Waterfall faucet anyone?)
I would personally use it as a backsplash for the whole kitchen rather than use a "small" piece on the island. It would be more effective vertically than horizontally. At a minimum, I'd do the "frame" bit behind the entire cooktop, from counter to ceiling, with a glass chimney hood over it to not obscure it.
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12 years agoWelcome to the blue quartzite club drbeanie.
We have Azul do Mar and love it. It is nice to have such a durable easy-to-clean surface for our kitchen. We have a prep sink in the island and wouldn't want to do with that for our multicook kitchen.
How big is your island? If that is the place where you will do most of your prep, perhaps you could do a smaller one like 13" x 18" to leave more of the quartzite intact.
Here is ours:
We used our remnants on the fireplace surround in the family room.
We still have a piece that we might use for the powder room vanity if we change that out.
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12 years agojalsy6 and MichelleDT - Van Gogh paintings are more dark and cobalt-y than this - actually, when I saw it, I thought âÂÂHey that looks like Jupiter!âÂÂ
KD agreed and now calls it âÂÂJupiter,â adding yet another name to the Blue Louise/Louise Blue/Luisa Blue/Van Gogh/Van Goug/other names I canâÂÂt remember yet.
remodelfla and dianalo - I donâÂÂt know what our perimeter counters will be. I thought something subdued that would hide crumbs a bit - " DH likes Ebony Pearl silestone, I like Brown Antique (especially one that is closer to black). But we havenâÂÂt picked out cabinets yet either.
dianalo - we are thinking of doing just that, no backsplash really and just this stone behind the range, âÂÂproperly framedâ as you put it.
mtnrdredux - our range is a 48â Capital Culinarian and a hood coming down from fairly short ceilings, so there would be a wide, somewhat short expanse.
chicagoans - I donâÂÂt THINK we have the buy the whole slab. On the other hand, I think we might end up doing so. It is approx. 100â x 57â and our island is 66â x 40âÂÂ. I will try to post some scans of our KDâÂÂs initial sketches, but we are slowly phasing in our move to our rental property, and the scanner wasnâÂÂt the highest priority!
cienza - thanks for the congrats! Sounds like you had a really great fabricator. IâÂÂm not sure I know what you mean about multiple temperatures of light. Did you do one bulb in one, the next in another, the next in yet another? Trying to picture it.
beekeeperâÂÂs wife - wish we could make the island bigger!
cloud_swift - thanks for the quartzite welcome! I drooled over your kitchen on the FKB. WeâÂÂd need more slabs than we can get for the rest of our kitchen, but your lovely backsplash, perimeter counter tops, and island look great!
Everyone - we might just ditch the prep sink, and maybe with the enormous Blanco Silgranit II Super Single sink we may get for our main sink, it will be almost like 2 sinks!
Thanks everyone for the responses!!!
Here is a link that might be useful:
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12 years agoBon22 - congratulations! Love all that aqua/turquoise in yours.
avidchef - We are going to do both the backsplash and the island from our one slab. We decided not to do the prep sink. We've never had one, so I'm hoping we won't be too sorry!
Update - We're now doing natural cherry cabinets and will have wood floors. DH and I are thinking "brushed" (or leathered or antiqued - they say they are the same thing...) Cambrian Black, which has cool coppery flecks in it. We don't want to compete with the Van Gogh but we don't want a single monotone color either.
This "slab camera" picture shows the real colors better - but not so much better that we don't gasp in awe and grin like idiots whenever we see it in person!
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5 years agoIn south Jersey and putting this in our kitchen today. Bought at Ilkem Granite in Cherry Hill. Very happy to be joining the blue quartzite club!.
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