About two months ago, Pepper and I decided we’d replace our kitchen countertops. Unlike most of the house, which is littered with enormous windows, the kitchen has a single smallish window. It doesn’t get much light, and for some reason the former owners decided black granite countertops were the way to go. So the kitchen feels like the darkest room in the house.
We picked out a nice white marbled quartz material that we think will really brighten the room. It’ll be almost two months before it’s installed, so we kind of grit our teeth and put up with the black for now.
As we contemplate other changes in the house, we wondered if we should also replace our master bathroom countertop. Because it’s– you guessed it– black granite.
We were up in the Big K, and decided to drop by the countertop place that’s handling the kitchen. We explained what we wanted to do, and the owner said he had some “remnants” which would cost about half their normal price because they were left over from past jobs. We decided we really liked this white quartz with grey streaks in it:
Installing that means we’ll need to add a tile backsplash, so we headed down the street to a tile store and looked at their overwhelming display of tile options.
Wow, they have hundreds of different kinds of tile– this was one of a dozen display cases. It’s hard to know what to choose.
Then there are the sinks. They’re a cool polished chrome, but they always look dirty because you have to constantly wipe them down. Not very practical, and frankly a little strange. So I think we’re going to grab a fun vessel sink like these at Lowe’s:
Given the fact that we had only planned to do the kitchen countertops, suddenly this is becoming another big project. Funny how house things do that…