and then there were counters

the counters, caesarstone baja, were installed last tuesday, and then we went to vegas to finance this whole kitchen. the work gets done a lot faster when you pay someone else to do it, as we learned in this instance. an overall view:



from the dining room:



the kitchen sink:



the laundry sink:



the counters look like a solid color, but they have little granules and crystals which add some variation. we purposely chose a mellow surface color because we want the focal point of the kitchen to be the glass tile backsplash. in this picture, you can see the two sample sheets between which we were deciding:



we'll leave it as an exercise to the viewer to decide which sheet won and which one of us preferred which sheet...