Granite Color Choice Advice
We are remodeling out kitchen, our cabinets are Maple, with a Briarwood color, (not to light and not very dark) we are thinking of Butterfly Green or Tan Brown for our countertop, all stainless steel appliances, we havent’t picked our floor yet nor the backsplash. Our cabinets will be 30 in. height, with moulding at the top to the ceiling, we opened up wall to dining room. Please help. - Thanks, Nancy
Hello Nancy
Tan Brown Granite and Butterfly Green Granite are very straightforward, choices with your color combination, but are what I call, “non-emotional”. I don’t want to talk you out of those but just inspect the slabs thoroughly using my 10-Point Checklist on the website.
I want to toss in my two-cents here so I am going to make a couple other suggestions for you to consider. First, you need to figure out your floor before making a granite decision. Since you said you have not picked out your floor, I am going to assume that it will be tile, not wood. If your tile flooring has veining in it, then stay away from veining on the countertop. The opposite is also true. I think you will end up with a neutral off-white color, perhaps with some blotchy accents of cream. With this assumption, I suggest that you consider a primary color in the granite. There are three primary colors, red, blue and yellow. Don’t go with yellow. For more emotion in your kitchen, look at the reds and blue on www.GraniteStock.com and if you don’t like any of those, go back to the Tan Brown or Butterfly Green.
I have beigh color scheme in our house. What color granite can I put in my kitchen . It is small kitchen. I have whithe tiles now. I have stainlesteel fridge and will get a steel sink. Advise. - Shirley
Hello Shirley
You really can go with almost any color given your pallet. However, since your kitchen is small, you might want to avoid granite patterns with large veining or color variations.
Best wishes!
Hi Tom, I just happened on your web-site and I will ask your advice. We are going to install granite counter tops and plan to sell the house in a couple of years so we have to remember saleability and yet we want to enjoy the tops in the interim. As of now we have decorated our kitchen around a plate rack filled with “Flow Blue” dishes so all our wallpaper, door knobs, etc. are blue and white. Our present counter tops are white with a cobalt blue edging and a white white smooth surface counter top. We do have vaulted ceilings, and our cupboards are oak. When we ordered them the stain color was called “Hazelnut”. I have had a terrible time matching the stain color and the best I can say in the Miniwax stains, it is somewhere in between 211 and 222, but closer to 222. The flooring is 6″wide white oak floorin with brown plugs. It is definitely a country style kitchen.
We looked at some granite sheets today and had closen a color containg browns, golds, tans, and a tiny vein of blue in it. It was called Desert Storm. We took one of our cupboard doors along and it looked beautiful with the slab. We don’t want to choose a color, however, that will only be in vogue, so to speak, for a short period of time. One of the other letters I read talked about making sure your color would be timeless. Please advise.
Thank you,
Carolyn
Hello Carolyn
Blue is a primary color and would support a timeless country decor. There are some lime blues that would not work but if you stay toward the true color as a field color or accent, it will be very nice. Unfortunately, most blue granite colors are very expensive. However, there is one blue that is reasonably priced, Blue Guanabara, but you need to get lucking and find a batch with the true blue minerals. I think you will love this granite.
