2008_06_19 Granite counter top in kitchen and upstairs bath vanity making progress

The kitchen cabinet disaster having been resolved, the people from the granite place were finally able to create a template for the counters.

We went down to their place and picked out a piece of a type of granite called Verde Butterfly. It comes from Brazil. It looks almost black, but it's really a dark green with little areas of silver, small areas of blue, and gold. However, from a distance it looks almost black.

Below is the left side of the kitchen. The refrigerator will go there where you see the end of the cabinet. We actually have a small area of counter space that is really conducive to doing much work like making biscuits, etc, but we've got what we've got.



You can see the sinks below and where the wall over and microwave oven will go.

Here is the area where the cook top is. This angle shows more of the granite so that it doesn't just look like solid black. You can see why the depth of the cabinet was an issue. The cabinet originally was about 3 inches more shallow and the corners of the cook top were actually out in mid-air.

There is a downdraft vent that pops up when you need to use it. It is about 2 inches deep and 30 inches wide. When you need it you just press a button on the top of it and it pops up. When you're done you press the button and it goes down into the cabinet. There is a motor under the cabinet that makes it pop up and a fan that creates the suction.

The cook top is cool! Well, not temperature wise, but neat. In the bottom right corner of the cook top there is a pressure sensitive area that you just put your finger on (you don't have to press it at all) and hold it for 3 seconds and it locks the cook top so that it can't be turned on accidentally.

When it isn't locked all you do to turn on an eye is to put your finger on the area that designates that eye on the surface (all the controls for all eyes are on the right edge of the cook top) and hold it to turn it on or to set the temperature on it. When you turn it on it gets hot pretty dog gone quickly.

The picture below is of the upstairs bathroom vanity. The medicine cabinet and mirror are just sitting on the vanity top. The lights needed to be flipped up instead of down to make enough room from the top of the medicine cabinet to the bottom of the lights.