mine are going in today and tomorrow, too! have to call for a templating appt. tomorrow. i chose a pencil edge - just a little rounding to hopefully reduce the chance of chipping...

Glad: Yay, it sounds like we are on the same schedule too. I just saw your pics. I just love a white kitchen. Did the pulls come with your cabinets? I can't wait to see more pics.

I must apologize to everyone about the typo in the message line. I try to be careful and use spell check but I was hurrying and well you know.

xoxosmom -- on the bullnose edge: We had a bullnose edge for a marble counter in a bathroom. I liked how easy it was to clean (no crevices for gunk to build up like in an ogee), BUT I was a bit disappointed that there was a seam in the bullnose. Now, this was done long before I found this website, and heaven only knows if the fabricator did it wrong, but I didn't care for the appearance of the bullnose.

My favorite edge these days is the eased edge. Again -- nothing for crud to cling to, but not round, either. The other nice thing about the eased edge is that it is not a premium cost, unlike the bullnose or ogee edges.

I second what teched said. Just for that reason we went with the 1/2 bullnose (much like the demi) and we're quite pleased. I learned about that here on this forum.

So what edge hides the added piece best? My fabricator told me I have to have a half inch added to the bottom edge of my granite to hide the plywood under-counter. I prefer the eased edge but I felt the larger surface area showed the seam more. Did i just see a bad example?

My two cents - I went with a straight edge because I tend to like things pretty simple. I really regret it. It is just too plain. Even a bullnose would have been better. I just hoe that once everything else goes in I will not notice it as much.

We have bull-nose, and I guess that's one thing my granite fabricators did right, cuz you can't see or feel any seam.

I was close to paranoid about chipping which was one of the main reasons we went with this. Also for leaning over peninsula when talking or reaching to water plants, very comfy, (I would imagine that a sharper, straighter edge might not be as comfortable).

Have to admit, I LOVE the look of the fancier, more detailed edges, just don't think they would have been practical in our case.

I was considering an Ogee edge, but at $25/linear foot, it was too expensive for the kitchen (47 linear feet = $1,175 for the edge alone!) I did go with it for the Powder room since it was only 6 linear feet and I'm making my PR somewhat "exotic"...nope, doesn't match the traditional kitchen, but I wanted something very different.

The eased edge is "free" (i.e., included in the fabrication cost), so we're going w/the eased edge in the kitchen. I didn't price out the bullnose or demi-bullnose so I don't know what that cost is.

I hope I don't regret it!

Oh...the Breakfast Bar...is it counter height or bar height? If counter height, do you have short legs? 12" is a little shallow, at least to me. We're going w/15". A friend of mine has a 12" overhang & have to sit slightly sideways if I want to be close enough to the counter to eat. But, I have long legs. Some people seem to be fine w/12". If it's bar height, the 12" is probably OK.

No granite for me, but our last bfast bar was at 42"...It was 18" total, 12" overhang. It was great, but, like Buehl said, if it's counter height, it's recommended you have 15".

Thanks for all the help. The breakfast bar is bar height, I will call back and ask to have it extended to 15". I am still unsure what to do about the edge, except that I feel I should change it because of the liquid drip off. What is the difference between a demi bullnose and half bullnose? Not to mention the bathroom granite which will definitely have water drip off so needs to be changed also. Maybe I will do eased there?

Hi xoxosmom--

You must be out west? Here in the east, it's 3 cm no plywood granite. I have eased edge in the bathrooms and it is fine. I've seen the laminated edge with a bullnose over an eased edge. It looked like ogee--very pretty. We have ogee in our powder room and again no problems.

hi xo - it really is nice having a few of us on the same schedule, isn't it??? my pulls are lee valley. i found them thanks to dixielog's thread, which i linked below.they arrived in a few days.

Here is a link that might be useful: Pulls thread

I have full bullnose, no seam. And yes, there is the issue with water run off but it's not like I don't KNOW when there's a spill and I just clean it up. It's not really a problem. However, I do have the eased edge in my powder room and would suggest that for any bathroom situation. Especially if you have kids and don't know every time there's water on the counter. I don't go and check the countertop every time they come out of the bathroom. I AM finding though that I actually like the look of the eased edge better than my full bullnose. It makes the granite look thicker and I'm wishing I'd just gone with the eased edge everywhere.

In short, go with what YOU like for the kitchen, but for bathrooms I highly reccomend a simple eased edge.

Here's a website I just found with a diagram of the edges so you can see the difference. Hope it helps.

Keep in mind that if you drop something on a squared edge, there's the possibility of it chipping, and much less of a chance of chipping with a rounded edge because there is no square edge.

Here is a link that might be useful: edge drawings

We chose the ogee edge. Our contractor did not charge extra for the edge and he even put it around the sink and it looks great. We absolutely love it.

As far as the breakfast bar, ours is counter height adn only a 10" overhang but it is in a walkway and has never really been used to sit at and with this remodel we are putting a wine cooler under it so anything more than 10" would make it difficult to get to the cooler. I agree with the 15" though, especially if you have longer legs.

xoxosmom...if your breakfast bar is bar height (42" high), then a 12" overhang is probably fine. The 15" overhang is the recommendation for counter height (36") seating.

buehl...oops so is 15" on a breakfast bar bad? I have kids so I don't want it to be a structure problem we will have corbels.

No it's not bad...I just didn't want you to think you had to have 15"! Personally, I'd rather have the extra inches...b/c of the corbels (or other supports) and for the extra leg room. If we had had enough room, I would have made our counter overhang 18"!

I chose "chiseled" edge, and it is beautiful. BUT . . . there is an area of notching in that is not flush with the rest of the granite edge. I am not happy with this. Has anyone used "chiseled" edge and had a not-so-standard-straight-edge problem? What did you do? Or what did you demand from your fabricator? What resolution was obtained?