Counter tops

Two years ago when we moved cabinets around to make room for the dishwasher and stove, we then ended up with an island. Since then we've just been living with a melamine board as our temporary counter top over the island and it's worked out surprisingly well and still doesn't look too terrible. 

We finally moved ahead on getting new counter tops for the kitchen and kids bathroom. We didn't do our other bathroom because theoretically, we are tearing that bathroom out at some point. 

I spent alot of January looking up counter top places and eventually had 6 quotes done up.

 These are pictures of how everything looked before...

 After we moved cabinets around, we had cabinets sticking past the original countertops, so we put a strip of board over the top.

The seams in the laminate had been exposed to water and were warped

 One of the first things we had to do was install some supports for the new countertop going on the island since we were planning on a 15" overhang.

I really didn't want corbels, so I had researched online and found these steel support beams and Cary installed them. 

I ended up going with a place out of Cedar City to get the counter tops from and we had an install date for last Wednesday, on Monday he wanted to change it to Tuesday, which would have been nice, but Cary was in SLC and I didn't feel comfortable trying to move out old counter tops and undoing plumbing. ☺ 

We stuck with Wednesday.

Cary got back on Tuesday night and then Wednesday morning after getting kids off to school, we started removing old sinks and counter tops.

There was a lot of rot underneath the sink

and then we were surprised to find that a strip of sheetrock was cut out behind the back splash. This was a problem since I had specifically NOT ordered the typical 3-4" backsplash in the kitchen. We are going to eventually do a tile backsplash, but I was planning on just being able to paint down to the counter top. 

Not happening now. ☺

Yay! Hyrum and his helper arrived and started the install.

I think since the counter top in the kitchen was already white, there really wasn't a huge change as far as things look, but both sinks were upgraded to under mount and and now the faucets will be easier to clean around so I'm excited about that part.

My dream counter top would be white quartz and while I think we are too practical to ever pay for quartz, when looking at solid surface samples there was a new white color that had some sparkle, which is one of the things I like about quartz, and I knew right away that it was what I wanted! 

Even if you have in your mind an idea of what you want it's hard to commit to something you're going to have to live with for a long time!

A back splash for the kitchen just got moved to the top of the list.