Kitchen crisis averted

We almost had a major kitchen crisis a couple of weeks ago. Do you remember the beautiful leathered Blue Night marble slabs we put on hold for the kitchen island last summer?

The ones that went so well with the honed Blue Pearl granite that will be going on the perimeter cabinets.

And with the purple island that Brian built.

The templating for the island and cabinet countertops was done a week and a half ago. Two days later, the stone shop called to let us know that no matter how they laid out the island dimensions on the slabs, neither slab was going to work because they were both a couple of inches too short for the proper overhang. DOH! Brian built the island too big!

Choosing another stone wasn’t an option, I NEED leathered Blue Night marble in my life! Brian contemplated reducing the size of the island. Not ideal, but it could be done.

Another option was to use the two Blue Night slabs and have a seam. Not the best option, but probably easier than modifying the island.

Luckily, there was a third option – the stone shop had another slab of Blue Night that was big enough for the island. It was polished, but the shop said they would leather it at no charge. I zipped into the city the next morning to take a look at the potential new slab. At first, I wasn’t entirely sure that I liked it as much as the other slabs. The movement of the stone is different, and it has darker bits that the other slabs don’t have.

But then we looked at it next to the honed Blue Pearl slab, and the two slabs looked pretty great together. The darker bits are just about exactly the same colour as the Blue Pearl.

In the end, I think I may actually like this slab better than the ones we had on hold. Especially once it has the leathered finish, which I absolutely adore.

The countertops are being installed on Tuesday, and I CANNOT WAIT! I’ve been envisioning the kitchen with these two stones for a year, and I’m beyond excited to finally have them in our kitchen :-)