any thoughts on this quartzite for a large island?
buckrogers
10 years ago
kitchen is basically off-white shaker with va mist perimeter, though this would go on black island cabinets. prep sink goes in the upper right corner, seats at the bottom.
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Help me choose a quartzite for my island!!!
Comments (18)They are all beautiful. The straight lines of the WM are probably considered more of a modern look. That might make a difference to you. Also, in some pictures on Houzz I didn't like the straight lines on some of the perimeter counter tops I saw. Mine is only on the island and I have the straight lines and I like it. But if you're planning on using 1 stone everywhere you might want to look at some pictures before choosing the WM. If you don't want your kitchen to appear so modern the swirls and movement of the other 2 are probably best. I really love that sea pearl picture. The sea pearl I saw locally was very green, but the picture you posted doesn't look green. How does it look in person? If the warehouse is sort of dark you might want to ask them to move it over near the large loading doors so you can see it in some natural light. I think they are all very nice and whatever you choose will be beautiful....See MoreFinalizing cabinet order this week... any last minute thoughts for me?
Comments (35)For the pass through, I am thinking that something like this would look a lot simpler/cleaner and less fussy. So you'd be keeping the doorway from the kitchen to the dining room that you were going to close and losing the two tall skinny vertical stacks of cabinets on either side of the passthrough. Not only would that visually break up some of the continuous walls of cabinetry, but instead of that whole complicated area where the oven met the pass through, you'd just have a nice clean, straight line of cabinetry dying into the wall and some open space. Visually, that corner of the kitchen will be a lot less heavy and won't compete with the range for focus. Also, functionally, if you are going to be using the dining room more often, I think it'll be nice to have the dining room that much more open and accessible to the kitchen. My last visual issue is how the angled windows now relate to absolutely nothing. They used to match the island angle and curve around a table. There were reasons for the wall to be like that. Particularly with everything else in the new kitchen's being so square and symmetrical, that architectural oddity looks SO out of place. You might at least do something like this to the island:And maybe do a range hood in an especially angular shape to tie into it all. This one that I posted earlier would probably work: You can see how that would related more to the window/island angles than something like this (made of curves and straight lines) would: When you repeat an element 2-3 times around a room, it looks like a deliberate design choice. With exactly one angle (the windows) in the room now, it doesn't look deliberate. That said, while I think any/all of those changes would make the kitchen look a lot better, it doesn't really address the functional layout problems that make this mostly a one-person kitchen. I'll do a different comment with some suggestions about that. Usually, you determine how much space you have, your goals, and then the general layout that would make the kitchen function best. THEN you figure out how to make the kitchen look pretty with everything where it needs to be to function best. It's always possible to make a functional kitchen beautiful. It is VERY difficult to do the reverse. And just brace yourself -- total symmetry is an enemy of function. The most useful kitchens have things staggered around the room so that people are not on top of each other when using them....See MoreOpen Plan Layout - Any thoughts?
Comments (0)Me and my spouse are about to furnish our new home. We have a nice Open Plan area which we want to be used as a Kitchen/Living/Dining space. A glass door (right) leads into the open area (closing it off from the rest of the house to retain temperature & sound). We decided to go for a large island to have a significant amount of working space and also have a breakfast bench. Kitchen wall units consist of the following in order: Full Fridge, Full Freezer, Sink, Small Work Top, Over/Microwave, Shallow Pantry, Pantry. The island features a hob, a dishwasher and some storage space. Two stone pillars lie at opposite ends of the room, one of which will be covered by a shallow pantry. The other may also be incorporated into a book shelf or some other wall unit. A six person dining table sits opposite to the island and 3/4 seater sofa sits around 2.1 m from a 65" TV. The room is connected to the yard via a double glass sliding door (top) and a window. Any comments or ideas are greatly appreciated! Keith...See MoreGoing Crazy Over Polar Opposite Soapstone Reviews
Comments (77)Found a possible solution to protecting countertops such as soapstone and granite while manipulating doughs on the surface = Silpat, a silicone, non-slip mat. You can knead, roll and cut without making slice marks on soapstone or worrying about porosity with granite. Silpat would also be better for kneading and rolling doughs than a cutting board which can move around with applied force such as my heavy marble cutting board does. For the person or two following this thread and interested in quartzite as an alternative to soapstone and granite, this article is a must-read: Quartzite Countertops May be Gorgeous, But There’s Something Your Stone Dealer Isn’t Telling You. The author had easily-etched calcite installed in her kitchen that had been mislabeled as quartzite from a major stone yard in Dallas. In her research after this mistake, she discovered that it is common practice for commercially-available "quartzite" to have been doctored with resin and that mislabeling other stones as quartzite is rampant. As to cost, the author states in a follow-up article linked to the original that quartzite runs $4,000-plus per slab and an additional $30 to $60 per square foot to cut, polish and install. While she encourages someone who loves quartzite's appearance to do their research and pre-test a sample for etching (something she apparently failed to do herself), she also concludes that granite is a safer choice due to widespread abuse of quartzite labeling. This is reflected already in comments in this thread about how necessary it is to get just the right composition of quartzite in order to have a positive experience with it, not to mention the issues that may crop up with different qualities of the pre-applied resins, a practice that is so common according to the author's research that it is next to impossible to buy un-resined quartzite commercially....See More
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8 years agoSuper! Thank you. I've made my decision then.
I will be using this Nuage for my island, and a mostly grey Taj Mahal for more my perimeter.
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5 years agoThinking of this too - any thoughts - too busy with this backsplash? Love both, just not entirely sue they can go together.
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