Antique brown granite
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Leathered Antique Brown Granite with Calacatta Gold Honed
Comments (7)I first saw leathered granite about 4 or 5 years ago in a parade home. Instantly fell in love with it! Your choice of granite and finish is absolutely beautiful! Monica...See MoreAntique Brown Granite?
Comments (3)wow lots of peeps looking at antique brown....i mentioned in a different thread i just signed the contract on mine today. When I first saw the stone I didn't pay much attention to it because it looked overwhelmingly black. However, I was lucky enough to see it fabricated out and installed in a kitchen at a slab yard here. That was when I fell in love and just knew. I am doing my cabs an eggshell with coffee glaze on the perimeter and yellow ochre island with glaze on the island. :)...See Moreantique brown granite installation (please respond to this one)
Comments (38)We have a member of MIA over to evaluate the install and he pointed to us what we already knew, but we were told we are lucky the owner is willing to work on it and is trying to fix it. He said many in our area will not even bother to work on improvements- I am guessing this is happening because we only paid for material thus far. That said, we discovered yesterday (after the MIA memberâÂÂs visit) that the granite is not attached to the cabinets- or at least not along the entire perimeter. I think it is not attached to cabinets at all, but I cannot say for sure except for the peninsula, where there is a visible air gap between the cabinets and the stone. The granite is sitting on a shim that is placed in the corner of the peninsula (next to the power strip visible on the photos below) and the entire countertop that covers the 52 inch by 30 inch peninsula is above the cabinet tops connected to the cabinets only through that shim in the corner. The âÂÂair gapâ is caused by the difference in slab thickness between the two pieces of granite that sit on this chains of cabinets running along the wall and ending with the peninsula- the one lifted in the air is skinnier, so it is shimmed above the cabinets to be in level with the other piece ��" these two are connected by the seam shown above. There is also shim next to the seam. I will get back to the MIA member who was here to have him give me feedback, but would like to hear other fabricators ideas whether such situation is normal? ShouldnâÂÂt the stone be sitting on the cabinets along the entire perimeter ? the shim is next to the power strip- hard to see because it is black as the power strip itself....See MorePlease Help! Is my antique brown granite cracked?
Comments (25)I have leathered antique brown granite. There is a lot of variation in colors, patterns and mine does have lines here and there. I have one long line in mine that seems to be natural to the stone because it is sort of meandering around. The line in your stone seems to meander around in the same way mine does. I can't feel it. Can you feel the crack/fissure in your antuque brown? Don't know if that means it's a crack or not, but maybe it does. Re regarding the suggestion to draw on it with a magic marker...i do have one area in my antue brown where there is a blob of white quartz that is just in a place that I don't like it. It's natural to the stone and there are several of these in my slabs. Just this one spot I don't like it, so I did draw on it with a magic marker, then gently wiped it off and now that area just blends in with the rest of the slab. So if you do find out that it isn't really a crack, that magic marker trick could work for you. Sounds a bit wacky, but it worked for me. But if it is an actual crack, of course that's a different situation....See Morekbncan
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