First stop...Marmi. Let me preface this by saying that this was my first visit to a stone warehouse but this one seemed to be pretty top notch! I walked in and this nice UGA Interior Design graduate met me at the counter and showed me around. We walked up and down the aisles looking at all of the granites, quartzites, limestones, and marbles just looking at slab after slab. The girl who was helping me was so helpful in recommending different materials and explaining to me why some were better than others for countertops, etc. I didn't have much luck finding a good white granite option because most of them had alot of large dark flecks that didn't really fit the profile I was looking for. They recommended a quartzite material as a nice alternative because of its good properties that were better suited for kitchen use. They sent me on my way with this cute little green bag (that weighed about 12 pounds!) and a bunch of samples to take back!
Then my next stop was Stone Connections, which was a more independent, help-yourself kind of place. I had alot of fun browsing through the aisles and taking notes of what I liked, prices, materials, etc. I found some pretty light granites that could possibly work, I made my list, grabbed by samples and hit the road!
This is a shot of part of an aisle of the stone slabs. They had some really interesting stones, unfortunately I only got shots of the light granites because I was just thinking about this project.
I thought this was a really neat option for a light granite. It sort of has that marble look to it. Plus it had this really beautiful "velvet" finish to it which was just great looking!
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