Carrara at $100/sq ft?
We just received our pricing back on Carrara for our 38 square foot island and it came out nearly $100 sq/ft after install. We are having it honed and that costs $5 a square foot but still, isn't this price insanely high for Carrara? We had Olympian Danby priced that came in at about $150/sq ft and were told Carrara is typically around $50 sq ft. This is a photo of the slab. It doesn't look particularly white to me which I think would actually create a lower price. Thoughts?
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Terri_PacNW
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoRelated Discussions
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friedajune
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoSetting aside the price, that pic does not look like Carrara. It should be whiter, also the white areas should have a tiny bit of sparkle to them. If you like the coloration of the slab in your pic, get it, the price is fair, but don't call it Carrara.
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6 years ago
Claire Pope
6 years agoM M
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I'm encouraged by all of your responses and agree that the photo doesn't look like Carrara but more like quartzite and specifically Super White, which we do not like at all. I don't know if I feel better or worse after reading these comments, except that if Joseph is telling me to "buy now" then by God, I better listen. :) I took this photo with my iPhone which automatically darkened it and the overhead lighting was covered; it was also directly across from a giant slab of black granite so I believe all these things contributed to making it appear much darker. Here's the photo of it that the distributer had taken for me. More like Carrara? They look completely different in these two photos, so different that I had the guy at the warehouse show me the slab twice. In person it appeared much more like marble, albeit a grayer piece. Has anyone else experienced grayer and darker Carrara lately?
We've been told that the whiter slabs of Carrara are in such high demand that the Italians are demanding almost unreasonable prices, and in the seemingly super "practical" Midwest, maybe there's less of a market for it. Granite is still big here, though I think granite is starting to look a big dated. When we lived in Nashville we were told by our designer that they are hardly doing granite anymore except occasionally as builder grade in less expensive new construction. More quartz, less granite. Marble still is considered very high maintenance. We did use a honed Raven (also referred to as American Black) granite on our perimeter to mimic soapstone, just for purposes of practicality. It's beautiful with soft white "veining" and we love it. We would have gone for Danby for the center island and tried, but it's hard to come by here in the Midwest, and is often pretty beat up by the time it arrives. Not exactly sure why. The stuff is gorgeous but it seems like no one takes care of it in transit to us. It's very hard to get marble here and then you have to insist that you're educated on it and know what you're getting into. I understand completely but there's also a frustrating lack of understanding on the other end that some people value aesthetics and a certain look just as much as they want practicality. And are willing to deal with the upkeep to have it.
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gtcircus
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6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoThe second picture looks more like Carrara. Keep in mind that once it is horizontal it will look different. Here there is a picture of our Carrara slabs during templating. We tried to use the whiter areas (top, within the wood frame and blue tapes) and it looks even whiter installed on the counter.
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