It's great when you can 'hear' those things over the clamor of everything else. I'm sure the right thing will come along.

I think it was meant to be. When little things like this happen take it as a sign. You will find the "one" you are meant to have.

Well you've already done a ton of research into both stones I'm sure. Quartzite is less likely to stain and probably much harder than marble, but the thing is soapstone and marble are beautiful together. They look like they were made for each other. You really can't go wrong with Danby marble.

The marble will look great.

Etch-ooo.

'Scuse me.

Oh you smarty-pants, marcolo. I have a dresser with a marble top on it that's over 100 years old and it's beat to hell. And I love it. The first cut is the deepest....

Thanks all! Hard to know when to muscle through and when it's not working. I'm sure with couples counseling the counters and I can make it for the long-haul. Lol

Yeah, the first cut is a real bee-etch.

Go with your gut, ...from a soapie ;) Chris

Gosh I must've talked about this a lot if you guys already know that I'm doing soapstone on the perimeter counters! Isn't it funny though how we don't worry about soapstone getting beat up at all but we agonize over the marble? What's that all about?
EDIT: it has been pointed out to me that I mentioned soapstone in my first post. *facepalm*

This post was edited by Kiwigem on Wed, Dec 24, 14 at 10:32

The way you will know if you made a mistake is how you feel when the slab you rejected gets bought by someone else. If you have no feelings, then you know you did the right thing. If you feel awful and want to cry, then you know you know you shouldn't have let it go.

"Gosh I must've talked about this a lot if you guys already know that I'm doing soapstone on the perimeter counters!"

Kiwi, some here knew you were doing soapstone because they are clairvoyant. But then others of us just read your first post. :P

I love quartzite. Which one had you selected? Can you find another slab that's more white?

May_flowers: Good grief....I need a nap. I can't even keep my own posts straight!!! Lol I will be keeping an eye out for slabs that are whiter, and preferably honed. Unfortunately our local stone yards are saying they've been having trouble getting good slabs. Also, armed with a little bit if knowledge from karin_mt, I'm starting to notice that a lot of the very white quartzite available to me is really mislabeled marble. :-/