Start of the design center and granite.

7 March 2013

Last week Stacey and I met with Katie Lee, Saddletree's design center guru, to decide on external house colors, shingle color,  interior paint colors, etc. We spent 4 hours with her deciding on all the goodies. Stacey is driving the magic color bus and knows the feng sui so she really enjoyed the afternoon.

We are going with a grey stucco home with a lighter "pop out" grey, a darker grey trim, and dark shingle roof.
Inside color is where we ran into some trouble. We may try this combo.

I put my foot down only once and wouldn't budge. I wanted knobs on the upper cabinets and Stacey wanted to use handles. I know what you are thinking. Big deal right? I went into great detail on how more ergonomically correct it is to use knobs because you don't have to twist your hand to get your fingers into the handle, blah blah blah...Well I gave Stacey her handles for the cabinets yesterday for her Birthday. I'm a great husband, right?

My knob

Stacey's handle

Yesterday Stacey and I went to Planet Granite http://www.planetgranite.us/ to pick out granite (duh) for the kitchen, master bath, upstairs bath, and down stairs bath. Saddletree lets you pick from 7 colors in the class A standard granites for the kitchen island, and counter tops. This is included in the cost of the house. We rolled with the gold brasil, brazilian gold, venetian gold so many names, same thing. The 4 slabs of gold brasil was too dark for Stacey's liking so we have to wait until a lighter slab comes in.
The cool thing about Saddletree is they let you pick from Planet Granite's remnants for the bath counter tops. The remnants can be any class of granite and you can get some real exotic pieces.

Here are the pieces we picked out. It's sad that the counter tops only use a small portion of the granite. The rest of it gets recycled into road base.

Upstairs bath.

 According to the Planet Granite person (Evelyn), the brown and purple flecks are garnets.

Here is the downstairs bath piece. Super cool!

The master bath counter top was the hardest to find. All these remnants have been cut so finding a 7' foot piece the right size was difficult. Most of the "cool" pieces in the remnants section were already saved for someone else. We got lucky and found this piece.
This granite is called Lapidus. The two pictures can be put together to show the full length. The guy on the saw needs to watch the over cuts...this stuff is expensive.

Stacey's last picture captured a Planet Granite's granite moving guy in the granite pseudo window. Just looks funny to me. Just smokin, movin granite.


Next stop is the Rug and Tile shopping. Scheduled for March 27.