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At the fabricator’s we were able to get a deal on a remnant they had left over from another kitchen.  It’s a beautiful piece, one they call “exotic” due to its irregular streaking, and they made a point of telling us as a slab it was very expensive.  After looking at a few samples, we had a vague idea of what we were interested in, and went armed with names to the wholesaler to pick out our slabs.

Some granites look very different on the slabs, so we got to go and pick out which specific slab of the type we wanted for them to make our counter tops out of.  We are looking for the more standard grade, these are usually more consistent and have less variability in the colors between them, but again and again we picked out mid to high grade pieces.

Finally we found one that we liked and was in our price range, called “Verde Butterfly”.  There are several verdes, but we liked this one because it had lighter flecks and gold flecks, and overall wasn’t as dark.  They are coming to measure on Tuesday, and hopefully 3 weeks from now we will have new counter tops.