The granite reveal!

Your first glimpse of the granite! Okay, so it's a cellphone picture and really hard to see and has the template all over it and it's at a weird angle and there's kind of some random car in the way. But it's the granite that's going to go into our kitchen!
Before I continue on about the granite, did you know this is my 300th post!? We're also finally inching toward the 3k mark in views. If you like my blog, I encourage you to share a link.

Back to the granite. The real reason you're here. Judging the granite. Without getting into too much boring detail about how they fabricate granite countertops-- which of course isn't boring to me-- they need a couple inches on either side of the actual countertop measurement for the little fancy edge we chose. What you see about is the countertop plus a little extra, however, they are telling us that we don't have enough granite to do the countertops, 4" backsplash all around and a piece behind our stove. I've been told at least five times I need to shell out another couple hundred bucks for another slab. By "I" I meant the husband and I, of course. Each time I ask if there's some way we can make it work. Today I suggested not having the piece behind the stove included and we'll go with tile instead. It's my last ditch effort to save money here.

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