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Those countertops are fabulous!

That shiny copper is a very very brief look. It gets brown rather quickly. Except for the spots that the tomato juice brightened as it leaked off of the cutting board. Or the greenish spots from you sitting the detergent container on it for a couple of hours. It’s a mottled brown rainbow colored countertop. It will be a different mottled brown rainbow tomorrow.

That impermanence, and the visual busyness if it makes a major statement in a kitchen. It’s a focal point choice. You can only have so many focal point choices before it becomes overwhelming and jumbled looking. Pick those with care.

Its also a darn expensive choice unless you DIY. DIY is harder than you think. Been there for a side table top. I finally got it “OK”. OK for an occasional table and a kitchen counter are two different things.

This Homeowner decided on Cambria Rosslyn for the Countertops - Not Copper but some Shimmer. Pictures after installation & Day one of Moving in Only! Different Range - but surely the show stopper

at an average of $100-150 a square foot, no way.

I have a LOT of copper in my kitchen including a hood; accent tiles; copper ceiling and a large farmhouse copper sink.

I wouldn't want a copper counter.

Helen - Could you post a photo of your kitchen?

A local cafe has a seating counter with a copper surface, and the Cook's Kitchen's description is pretty accurate from what I've seen. "Mottled brown rainbow colored," and changing on a daily basis depending on what's been spilled or dripped on the counter. The deVol inspiration pic is pretty, but bears no real resemblance to the real-life copper counters I've seen. I actually quite like the counter at my local coffee shop, but you should definitely understand what you are choosing when you choose copper.

My parents have copper countertops. after seeing how they wear, I would never have them myself.

I happen to love it and have lived with it. I spend a lot of time in other peoples homes from 10mil to 100 mil. Kitchens fascinate me with all the layout choices. One work rental in Austin, 5 months there, had a copper counter. Nice patina but a few weeks later we thought we had ruined it. We called the homeowner in Boston and she laughed. Forgot to tell us the big squirt ketchup bottle in the fridge was for that counter. Not much trouble really. Would I have it in my home now. Maybe with an anal housekeeper. It does look good with natrual daily patina and cleaned.

Much worse is dark granite speckled with three kids under ten. Always sticky or dry crud spots since nothing shows. White counters show everything so just a wipe spot cleaning as you go keeps up with it.

C706 is an alloy of copper and nickel. 90/10. Paler copper color.

@ilikefriday - My kitchen is still a work in progress so I don't have final pictures.
It was a gut remodel from the original 1965 kitchen ghetto :-). It is a small 8' x 10' galley layout in a highrise. I extended the run of cabinets into the dining area to gain more storage space.

• This is the cooking wall - the medallion was custom designed as I have an Art Nouveau statue of a crane which I love. The large subway accent tiles are copper. The granite is Black Galaxy which has specks of copper in it.

This is the dining area which I extended. Tall cabinet to the left is the cabinet to the right in the first pictures posted.

This new run of cabinets is super functional as the tall cabinet to the right has a utility type of closet at the bottom and shelves above.

The tall cabinet to the left actually holds my Cuisinart and KA Mixer when not in use. The counter runs through it and there is an electrical outlet. There is a side door as well as the front door so I can slide the Cuisinart or mixer out when I need to use them and don't have to carry them. ,

All of the cabinets have roll outs or are drawers.

All cabinets with upper cabinets have toe kick step stools - you kick them slightly and they roll out. I can thus avoid hauling out a step ladder if I need to access the top shelves since I am relatively short.

The original kitchen had those ghastly plastic panels with fluorescent tubes above them. A coved ceiling with copper tiles was installed. The soffits are structural so couldn't be removed. There are up lights in the soffits which illuminate the ceiling for drama.
Third photo shows the original ghetto with fluorescent lights.

These are the knobs and pulls from Notting Hill Hardware in their Prairie Tulip style. My cabinet doors were inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie style so these work really well. Since my appliance pulls and faucet fixtures are oil rubbed bronze, the black and copper complement the rest of the kitchen.

This is the copper farmhouse sink from Havens Metal. It has a ledge so with the accessories, it very effectively adds usable counter space. I have the copper drain; the wood cutting board; the sponge holder as well as a wood cutting board with a cut out that holds a large SS bowl so that fruits or veggies can be swept into the bowl after chopping.

Another shot of the original kitchen ghetto. The layout was also dysfunctional since it had the wall next to the stove. By taking down the wall and installing an induction cooktop slightly to the left of where the original stove had been, I now have free space on both sides. The back wall now acts effectively as an integrated part of the kitchen.

I went with wooden countertops, but I put in a Rachiele copper sink.

Helen. OMG. You have left me speechless. You had some amazing vision. Your kitchen is stunning. I especially love the hood and the medallion.

Jerry - Can we please swap sinks? I will take yours and you take mine. I am happy to pay for postage.

purpleproject - You can get one from Rachiele. They will make them in any size you would like. Dino is really great to work with. The one I have (42") lets you do all the prep work in the sink so the counters stay clean. (I'm talking two years plus and only dusting the counters.) If my kitchen was the size of some I see here (e.g. about as big as my entire house) I'd get an even larger one 60" or so.

purpleproject - Mine was a close to cookie cutter home in the 1970s. (I'm not the original owner). As you can see, I've done all the backsplashes in stainless steel with copper trim. The hood and Bluestar wall oven also have copper trim. The thinking behind the backsplash was due to an estimate of about how often the grout in a tile backsplash would be cleaned. Came up with zero. The wood countertops were chosen because if they get burnt or stained, they will just look used and loved. Granite or other countertops just look ruined if stained or cracked. (The crack could be fixed by using gold to fill the cracks the way they do with broken pottery in Japan--might be a bit pricey for a large crack.)

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I don't have a picture of my kitchen because I am waiting to repaint, but I went with quartz countertops that have flecks of copper in them. I get a lot of compliments on them and the copper shimmers when it catches the light. There's a lot more than the sample pic below would indicate.

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Copper is great. And it is NOT orange; it's copper. Gold isn't yellow; it's gold.

Just be sure to leave it natural so it gets a natural patina (even if you don't want it to go all the way to brown) ; don't poly it like a bar I used to go to did. Huge mistake. And if you have to nail (which is cool), use real copper nails.