The countertop installers were at the house this morning - they said they would arrive between 8-10am and they were there at 8:18am :) They proceeded to very efficiently install the counters and they look great. The material is sort of like quartz but is made from recycled glass and mirro,r and the tiny bits of mirror pick of the light and it sparkles just a little bit.
The only slightly down side, and it isn't really a downside since I had been warned three times in advance, is that the seams are slightly visible. The woman at Home Depot had warned me that with the white materials the seams showed a little more, then the guy who came out to measure warned me that the "Polar Cap" color was the hardest one to hide the seams and suggested that if that was going to bother me I should pick another color before we went any farther. Then before the installers started installing, they warned me one more time.
I was starting to get a little paranoid, thinking that the seams must wind up being like blaring beacons, but you can hardly see them... And I love the color so much more than I notice the seams.
Here are photos.
Note the lovely line of plaster near the top of the wall. That is where my idiot contractor installed the picture rail moulding---unfortunately, what he installed wasn't actually picture rail moulding but instead cheap, crappy trim moulding, and I had told him I wanted only real picture rail moulding installed just a 1/2" below the ceiling. Just one of the many things he has had to rip out and do over.
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With the cabinets in place, it seems larger than either the old kitchen or the old dining room; but it still seems small as a combined kitchen and dining room.
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