Treating Rainforest marble edge

15 years ago

Hiyall - One of these years I'll get around to ordering a countertop made of rainforest green, a very veiny, very moving slab of marble from India.

I'm wondering from anyone who may have this countertop how you dealt with the edge of so veiny a piece? I'm afraid any sandwiching edge will look very lightening-y at the join. At least one long edge of mine won't be able to be mitred, which would potentially be a way to deal with the lightening-edge. Another way would be to stick a offset piece below an ogee edge - a little like a rightside up version of sandn's carrera.

Anyone have any edge-wisdom to proffer? Photos? I found surprisingly few interesting-edged countertops in the FKB. I wonder whether boxer would be able to whoof up some ideas about this? No worries if not....

Hmmm... while highly funky it just occurred to me that since the edge will necessarily be visually a standout, maybe you could even paste a different color edge underneath -- anyone ever do that??

Here is a link that might be useful: Example of very veiny rainforest green

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mskitchen
15 years ago
ooh, very, very nice, never saw that one before.
smbh
15 years ago
We used RFG in our whole kitchen. We used a mitre edge (we have very long runs too - not sure why you say you can't mitre?). Ours are extra thick edges to make the counters appear beefier - I think 2 1/2 or 3 inches. I love the RFG - it is really unusual. My only regret is that because ours is not the shiny kind - it is very rough and natural looking , which is what we wanted - this makes it difficult for kids to do their homework on it! Very bumpy, especially with the veins. When researching here I couldn't find anyone else who had (one person was planning to but then changed her mind at the last minute). I haven't gotten around to taking pics yet but perhaps this question will inspire me to.
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aliris19
Original Author
15 years ago
Hi smbh - I'm glad to hear you like the stone! I'm going to have an island with a long curve on it so that's what can't be mitred. But it does sound as if it is the way to go in general.

Does the miter seam come together then at the very edge of the overhang? Is there a lightening appearance as the veins come together? Or ... probably they are not bookmatched just for seams, so perhaps the veins just die. But then there must be new ones for the edge piece -- how does this all look please?

Thanks!
smbh
15 years ago
I will try to shoot some pictures in daylight this week.
boxerpups
15 years ago
I think with corian you can have some clever edges with two
different colors sandwiched together. My guess is that it
is harder to do with granite.

I do have this picture that show the movement of the granite
falls to the edge. Maybe this idea can help you.
~boxerpups

And here are some other edges....

creama

white spring

cappuccino

Corian edge
aliris19
Original Author
15 years ago
Oh, boxer - you are so wonderful. Thank you, dear.