Looks beautiful--beautiful enough to dispell any thoughts of that pricing sleight of hand. We're still in that marble avoidance stage.

Honed perfection. You have outdone yourself, mtnrdredux. It is the platonic ideal of a piece of marble.

I love it!! The veining is gorgeous!

Sandn, I had marble interruptus in my last kitchen. When I did that kitchen, 9 yrs ago, people just flat out said I "could not" put in white marble! I've hungered for it ever since and never really embraced my granite countertop. I couldn't look at it without thinking of what might have been.

Honor, I hope our meals can live up to its standards!

Oh, yay! Look at all those gorgeous textural natural surfaces in your kitchen... Yummy, yummy, yummy!

Looks beautiful! If only you had given us a few more glimpses of your lovely kitchen :)

Mtn, that is uber gorgeous. Unique. All those rooms look European. Too bad I'm so clumsy I'd get dizzy and trip on those floors, lol. If I fell, I'd just stay on the floor and stroke that marble-smiling all the way. Cooking? who cares?

Aaaahhhhhh. Lovely perfection.

I agree....more glimpses of you kitchen and home are needed!!!

Very pretty. I can see some slight waves or ripples at the far end of that first photo. You didn't' get a standard honed surface, so I'm sure this would cost more than a wash of acid and some fine grit over it.

Love your floors. What are they?

Your post was very funny-and the marble looks nice too!

Thank you all.

Lascatx - the wavy finish is not done by the installer. The Italian company I linked to sends the slabs that way, and the upcharge for that finish is priced into the slab. Install is normal.

Stacey and Westside -- European, textural, natural, all my by-words! I am so glad it comes off the way I intended.

Gardenamy and Briana, I would love to post photos, but I did already post my floors (Carlisle eastern white pine random width wide plank in Bradford Umber) and my stove (lacanche). My pendants arent in and my cabinet glass isnt in, and some trim is missing in my breakfast room. BUt I will be back!

Well, there's another marble I'll have to look at now. So beautiful and from the photos it really does look like an old slab. I thought that was a Lacanche peeking out from your smaller slab! Can't wait to see your finished photos...it's going to be breathtaking.

Mtn: I love seeing updates of your project and can't wait for the final reveal. I love, love, love the finish on the marble! I hope you're enjoying that Lacanche, I am currently having an internal battle over the Citeaux and the Sully and I think the Citeaux is winning right now :-)

What a lovely kitchen! The floors, the marble and that silver utensil holder... Very pretty!

Very lovely!

It is really beautiful! I had to smile at what you called "marble interruptus." I'm so glad that you prevailed and got this gorgeous marble.
I am so very grateful for the cautions that I have read on GW about so many things. But I almost got frightened away from choosing some of the things I most love-- marble, a Blue Star range and a fireclay apron sink.

Good luck with it and enjoy-- it is beautiful!

OK. Now you're just showing off.

Wow. Marble is beautiful and so is the flooring. Looks great from what little the pictures are showing!!

truly stunning. Love what peeks we see in the photos. Can't wait to see the reveal. Great taste.

I want to see more! That's lovely!!

there was marble in those photos?? all I saw was those beautiful floors! Really, the marble does look soft and worn in the most perfect way.

All I can say is WOW!! - I love the veining in that marble!

Mtn-You have the most wonderful way of expressing yourself and your marble is stunning. I can't wait to see your finished kitchen..in fact I want to see your whole house both inside and out. You have done an exceptional job!!

Beautiful!

Your marble looks divine! I am oohhhing and awwing over it...must now look at some of your old posts with photos while my kiddos nap, your place looks gorgeous :-) Congrats!

Thank you both, I love it.

I just got the glass installed in my cabinets, so I will take some shots of that and post them. Still waiting on pendants, one faucet, some trim et etc

Why didn't I see this thread before? BEAUTIFUL! Love it.
Do we get to see the whole kitchen?

Yowza!! That Dolomya marble surely is in and it's gorgeous!! Thanks for the pictures and the giggles! I can't wait to see the final project!

Going to have Dolomya in my dreams....WOW! That is lovely....looking forward to seeing the whole kitchen...you have given us the most divine vignettes....thank you!

Prill, still waiting on a fix to my m/w cabinet, a second faucet, some trim pieces, a pendant that needs to be swagged, and two pendants to be hung. But close! Going to take some shots tonight of my glass cabs,

Yellow, thank you!

Beach - "divine vignettes" ...I like that.