I love it. Looks great with the door. I am leaning towards bianco antico and that slab is beautiful.

Thanks. The other slabs I saw were less linear/horizontal than this one. Saw some beautiful granite yesterday. New color called Giallo Delicatus, less white than regular Delicatus but really sparkly and pretty. A hard decision! No Persian Pearl in KC, so BA it was. Lots of pretty stone out there!!!

Grest choice. When are you having installed. Does it have a netting at the back?

I agree that the Bianco Antico granite slab looks great with the cabinet door. What color is your door and what type of wood since on my monitor it is a reddish brown that I adore. I can't wait to see pictures of your finished kitchen and maybe work in progress pictures since I am still not sure what I am going to be doing to my cabinets, counters and floors but I have my busy season to finish first before I make any decisions.

Love it! It looks great. I just went into my kitchen for a drink of water and looked, once again, into the granite. This is a great club to belong to!! I called us a "happy lot" of BA folks. Enjoy!! We have white cabinets, but your cabinet door really pulls out the cinnamon rivers, too.

My cabinets are cherry and unphotographed they don't pull red - I specifically asked for a brown color it's maybe 2 parts mahogany and one part dark oak stain (custom cabinets) and fogged 3 times to bring out the grain in brown. I would call it a medium/dark brown. I am getting pretty darn excited!

I wanted a white kitchen, but DH was not having it. (His sister had a white kitchen and although custom, the paint/finish job was bad and the cabinets wore badly so he's just anti-white - not b/c of the look, but b/c of what he preceives as the maintenance) -- I was nervous b/c it feels like I may be choosing a granite that should go with white -- but I think it looks pretty with the cherry and my space is fairly small, so I'm glad to have a lighter granite.

Scheduled for cabinet install around April 14 - but looking like it might slip a week. In any event, things are moving.

Living in a dusty, messy dump roight now with drywall and floors still to come.

One more thing: you don't see stuff on your counters. Unless the sun shines directly onto the granite, I have to look to see crumbs and sludge...which can be a good or a bad thing! But I like the fact that it's good at hiding coffee spills until I can wipe everything down. Our range is S/S with a black top, and it shows everything, so I'm glad for BA granite that's got such variation in colors. You'll love the mica chips, too. They just look gorgeous when the light hits them.

I'm excited and relieved to have the choice made. I am hoping to have enought to also do the vanities in DD's and our bath -- which will be white, so hopefully I will get my fix on BA with with cabinets.

So pretty! We will be redoing our kitchen this summer and I have been seeing Bianco Antico on this site and I love it! I love the black and white. We had Bianco Sardo (aka Luna Pearl) in our old house and I liked the black and white, but this time I want something that's not as uniform of a pattern.

I like your cabinets. I think it will look great. It will look similar to Lidia Bastianich's PBS kitchen, which is one of my favorite kitchens.

Love it, Wendy. Can't wait to see the finished kitchen! (It's me, Kristen.)

Sounds great! This is a beautiful stone..doesn't work for our kitchen, but maybe the master bathroom!

For those of you with BA, does it need to be sealed? I couldn't find it on Kevin's list of the different porosities.

Here's mine! Cabinets will be Espresso colored, White Rift Oak Shaker style door

That's a beautiful slab Sherriz - what finish for pulls, faucet, sink?

I have a brushed nickel faucet and a granite sink in anthracite. Think we are doing brushed nickel pulls.

Not sure what pulls will be yet as we haven't started construction. The double sink will be a White Ceco Sink undermount for about $650. It's 36" x 22" with a 10" deep left sink and 8" deep right one. I wanted the Rohl Shaw but not for $2k...

The finishes will be polished nickel, Rohl Perrin & Rowe faucets for the island and double sink.

oooo, 2 new members. Congrats to both teaforwendy & sherriz. You both are going to be in love with this stone. Donnakay is right, you can't see anything on the counters (crumb-wise). I have to get down at eye level and look at it sometimes!

The funny thing about it is that everything goes with it. You can put any color with it--white, espresso, lime green, gray, taupe, red, blue, etc. etc. Who would think that this stone would be such a neutral, but it really is!

Congrats to both of you!

Beekeeperswife - Your kitchen came out great. Congratulations...

LOVE IT!!!

I'm looking at this one too! Problem is, I'm not sure if I'll get to see a slab for real, the place I saw it at get it from Montreal. Mind you, I haven't really looked at all the granite places yet. May have to choose from a photo :(. There seems such variation, this makes be a bit nervous.

Can you tell me if this is a granite that's known for crumbling, breaking, installation problems etc?

teaforwendy, I am looking for granite and installers in KC and was wondering who you use and where you found you BA. It is gorgeos! I have natural cherry cabs and they have been in for 6 years now and have darkened considerably. They have a pinkish cast to them in areas and the BA looks like it would match well. Thanks

I have this in my kitchen and absolutely love it. It does hide EVERYTHING so I wipe my counters down nightly. I find a 50% alcohol 50% water is a good safe spray cleaner and easily made. I haven't been on in awhile and the kitchen galleries have changed. I was going to post my kitchen pics but not sure how to do it. I have them on this link>
http://www.roomzaar.com/rate-my-space/Kitchens/Angles--colors-OH-MY/detail.esi?oid=13976896

I used this beautiful granite as a shower surrond and vanity top. The vanity is being made and will be cherry wood with paprika stain and iron glaze. I'm hoping this turns out to be much like "teaworthy's" door in her picture. The floor is Cerdomus Durango tile in Bianco (light in color). I'm looking for suggestions on paint color keeping in mind the room is only 5 x 8.5 and has one window that gets mostly afternoon sun.
All suggestions welcome as I am in no way an interior decorator.
Thanks

Look at grays and taupes that you find in the stone. Try to find some paint chips that aren't "cold" as some grays and taupes can be. Gray is such a wonderful neutral, and it would probably go nicely with your wood.

The thing I love about this stone is that there are so many colors that go with it, you just have to work with your cabinet color too.

I cannot wait for you to post pictures of the BA installed. To be ensconced in Bianco Antico, ahhhh

wait you said "used", does that mean it's installed? If so, post pictures!!!!

Yay for Bianco Antico! Yes it needs to be sealed. Some fabricators may tell you (as they've told us) it's known for cracking and breaking, but many of them have the mesh on the back for extra protection and we never had any problems with ours. It is the perfect granite, you'll love it.

drivas, I used BM "revere pewter". Can't tell you how it looks yet, but will be able to in a couple of weeks!

ditto willis13. we have BA and are using revere pewter as well. being painted this week.

Thanks for the suggestions on which paint color goes with BA, your feedback helped me to focus and narrow my search.
I did try BM Revere pewter but it ended up too dark as I don't get a lot of natural light in my bathroom. I ended up repainting with BM Edgecomb Gray which is on the same sample card as revere pewter and is lighter in color.
It's still in the gray family but is creamier and has a pleasant softer feel for this space. When complete I'll try and download before and after's.
Thanks for the feedback.

LOL... I put Edgecomb Gray in my living room, isn't it fabulous! I actually wonder if it might have been better with my granite, and in the kitchen space (also don't get a lot of light) than the revere pewter... but don't tell my DH that.

teaforwendy: This looks exactly like my cabinets and counter that were are doing. What flooring are you doing? I can't decide...