When clicking on your link your full name and phone appear. If this is ok with you, fine. If not you need to change your settings. I'm not familiar with the photo sharing site you are using. See if you can find out how to embed the photo and you will get more responses.

Thanks Debra, it is my skydrive and links are not working right

We'll see if this works
They look really reddish in this photo

This post was edited by dawnk82 on Wed, Jan 8, 14 at 15:20

Another shot

When shopping for countertops, we wanted a dark countertop, since our old one was very light, and we wanted to change it up. (Old kitchen - dark cabs, light counters, new kitchen - light cabs, dark counter) We were told by a few places that with solid surface, if you get any scratches in the dark colors, they will really be obvious. Of course you can buff them out, but solid surface did seem to scratch more easily than other types. They all suggested lighter colors if we went with solid surface. In the end, we went with laminate, which I know is not the popular choice today. But, Wilsonart high def. and formica fx180 are their premium laminates and they are really beautiful. I love my new laminate, we live in our kitchen and it takes a lot of use and abuse. Of course, the premium laminates are not that much cheaper than solid surface, so its not really a question of price. For us it was getting the color we wanted and we are very happy with it.

Have you went and priced granite? You might find that it is very comparable to the price of solid surface. I would stay away from very dark solid surface because it will show everything!!

Yes, I have read the solid surface countertops are easier to scratch, and agree a darker color would show up a lot easier. I was thinking of something more plain /even toned, since the cabinets are busy. I am still throwing ideas around, but need to be deciding. Thanks for your input.