Hmm, they are landscape? I'm looking for counter top slabs.

http://denalirocks.com/

I'd second MSI--that was a fun place to walk (and drool) through. It's also near lots of other yards, tile shops, design houses, etc. if you have extra time or if proximity lets you see more locations.

We went to Pental in Portland and chose their "Tobacco" quartz. After we made our choice, we looked at a few slabs of the same color. There are variations in each slab, so if you go with quartz, choose the slab you want. We did get a little flack to do this because "they are man made and all the same" They are not, so pick the one you want.

Now Pental has so many more new quartz choices to choose from than when we were doing our remodel in 2013. They had a lot of natural stone choices then but we had our heart set on quartz. We are very happy with our choice, but if I had to make that choice today with all the new quartz styles since 2013, I probably would have chosen one more marble looking and whiter. Durability wise our quartz has held up beautifully!

Last April we updated a house we bought in Seattle that our son and DIL are living in and we went to a lot of stone places. We ended up using MSI, they have a great selection!

We bought our Pentalquartz from Portland and it was a good experience. It's Breton-made in Vietnam and a little less expensive than Caesarstone etc. Some colors of MSI Q quartz are made in China with a different manufacturing method than Breton.

I am not even leaning towards quartz. :) I want marble. Whatever I get will not be polished or shiny. I also don't want flecks and sparkle.

I want whitish/lt grey.

I have ikea grey bodbyn, a medium toned walnut wood floor, with lots of pattern and color, natural maple butcher block on my coffee counter and Ikea's large wood topped work table with black base for an "island".

There will be white subway walls and wood shelves with black brackets on the sink/window. Range wall only has ss hood.

Well best laid plans... I actually could go with quartz after my visit to MSI.

I would recommend MSI to any one, the staff were extremely helpful and informative. The warehouse space was amazing and their show room display is full of ideas.

Pental..the only positive for me, they carry XL slabs and they have tons of marble. Customer service was extremely lacking.

I'll be meeting with a fabricator Friday. It'll be between real carrara and quartz cashmere carrara.

Met with him today. If I stick with real marble it has to be the XL from Pental.

I'm not sure what I am going to do.