For budget, I did ogee edge ($$) on my granite countertops in the kitchen, and regular eased edge on the same granite for a counter on my patio. Both of them look nice but the ogee does have a more elegant=expensive 'look' to most people. Agree with jgs, this is a very minor regret and although folks don't like to use this as a measure ogee would be a definite positive for resale if/when you ever get to that point with the house.

Well, OK. I guess it's helpful to hear pointed out that I wouldn't likely have been talked down -- that rings true. So, I could have made the same mistake with help or on my own; same place!

The resale-thing just sort of doesn't compute with me, though so many talk of it. I'll put that on as salve when I start in on myself again.

It's like the flip side of decision-exhaustion: nit-picking. As if there weren't enough to do without it.

Thanks, jgs and redqueen ;)

Ogee edge is a very popular decorative and elegant edge, I wish it would grow on you over time! Remember that it could of been the whole countertop in Ogee edge, then you would have perhaps felt even more regret. Instead, it's just the island. Can you post a picture of how it looks like?

Hi Aliris - I agree with other postings. Ogee is very popular and if you're like me I doubt if resale would ever come into the picture (DH says the last box they take out of this house will have him in it) but never say never. Who knows what tomorrow will bring. Also - if you're like me - it sometimes takes me a while to get used to things. I recall your cabinetry as being so beautiful that I think the upscale ogee edge will look very appropriate.

i agree it would irk me. Once because it's not practical, twice because it cost useless "conceit" dollars to get something that currently means something in the semiotics of the masses.

I can't tell you why but I don't have a problem with my ogee edge. Weather cleaning up spilled liquids, crumbs or anything in between, it all cleans up easily.

All I can say is that I love Ogee edges and their variants, other than in sleek contemporary kitchens or in other kitchens where the style would jar, and am very pleased with my own double Ogee-edged island. I clean the edges by wiping them with a damp cloth, just as I do all my other counter edges. It has never been any more of an issue than cleaning the rest of the counter edges when drips have occurred. Since I have a gigantic puppy who recently discovered that he was tall enough to check out what's happening on the counter tops, this has occurred a few times recently, so I know whereof I speak. ; )

I love ogee edges, I think you should just enjoy it!

Aliris19...you've made me feel better at least! We couldn't afford to do an Ogee edge on our kitchen counters and I've always been a little unhappy about it (we did put in an ogee edge on the very, very small counter in the PR, it didn't add much to the cost). After reading your post I don't feel so bad about it!

However, I think you'll get used to it shortly and I don't think it will be an issue then (I probably would have to...).

Granted I haven't had my ogee edge very long, but so far I really like it. I don't find it harder to clean. Actually, I think it's easy to run my cloth covered finger along the edge to clean it. And when I think about it, I always do a run "around" the edge after I sweep everything off.

I was all for getting a cheaper, plainer edge (cheaper being the key word for me.) But it was one of the things my husband really wanted, and now I'm glad I got it. Maybe it will grow on you when you get more used to it?

SQ

Wait....didn't you post about this BEFORE edges were cut? I seem to remember saying that if it were me, I wouldn't do the ogee. But maybe I'm thinking of someone else.

Not trying to say I told you so, just trying to remember where I recommended against ogee.

Breezy - maybe you did. I do remember reading, after I'd ordered, that someone didn't like the ogee because of the sweeping-issue. I think I thought it was David, but truthfully, everyone kinda runs together.

Plus, it is 100% possible that I actually did even post before ordering and I just forgot, or rashly ignored your sage advice.

This is certainly possible because what I am ruing in part is not just the mistake, that's in some ways worse than the *kind* of mistake: I think I got swept up in the Jones-keeping-up thing. I thought I was "supposed" to like ogee and got excited about the possibility of using this fancy thing without stopping to question whether I actually really even wanted it. Or maybe I did question it but didn't really answer myself truthfully, that is functionally; I think I "fripped out". That is, went for frippery when something less silly might have been better for me and cheaper.

As many have commented in various contexts here, it's easy to do this in this forum (as equally well abroad in life).

So I think I'd be less hard on myself if it were an ordinary, boring error. I think it was a, what, let's call it a gimme-error. My mother always told me "no gimmes" before we went to the grocery store. Empty candy is a no-no.

That sounds a little harsh on those of you (which is to say most) who love your ogee edge! I'm overstating the case all around just trying to figure out why I feel so disproportionately rueful about this.

I do think everyone's quite right; I will learn to love it after all the drips and drabs get cleared away and we just live here rather than inspect here. :) At the least I can admit it is more interesting for having this edge in the middle hunk and a different one on the perimeter. It's even possible utility aside, that this "edginess" (pun admired) is part of what seems to be working overall.

As far as cleaning the curve goes (TV, SQ), I'm not bugged by ickiness on the curve but by relative difficulty in sweeping crumbs/scraps into the omnipresent and everused compost bucket. As far as I can tell, this stone is so busy I won't *ever* have to clean it ever! You can't see anything on it! Which is actually a little something of a (different) problem.... ;)

Buehl, glad to oblige! I think its value depends in part also on the style of kitchen you have. And also the amount of other niceness in your kitchen. Yours works beautifully; gilding need not apply!

Girly, SQ, marble: I'll get there... :)

KD: I'll bet that smooth curve is fun to lick!

Thanks, all. I'll climb back in now; it's a little boring out here. :) I need a new screen name: justakitchenjustakitchenjustakitchen. ;)

"...something that currently means something in the semiotics of the masses."

Sounds like a pudding, something you'd have for dessert.

good psa!

Sabji - what's "psa"?

"I think I got swept up in the Jones-keeping-up thing"

I appreciate your candor. I think this a pitfall that many us will face so it's great that you are drawing some attention to it. I tend to think you will get used to the edge and if nothing else it is nice looking.

I think sabjimata means Public Service Announcement by "psa"!

I had a straight-edged granite in my previous home and now have the ogee edging in my new kitchen. I don't have ANY problems cleaning it. I do have the straight, sharper ogee edging though.

Do you have the waterfall ogee? I can see that being a problem to clean!

IMO the ogee looks so classy. In my area the fabricators don't charge that much more for it. Unless it's the waterfall ogee of course.

We have a quite small kitchen so an ogee edge wouldn't have fit well. I really like them though, and am surprised that some people on this thread don't like them. Ogee edge seems so graceful and finished to me. I mean, you spend SO MUCH for the stone countertop, why not have a beautiful edge?

I hadn't heard before this thread about the crumb thing, and I had read A LOT of threads about granite edges before choosing our granite. I had read though--several times--that straight edges and full bullnose edges are drippy (right onto new cabinets!) due to nothing breaking the liquid from falling. We chose a half bullnose. It gives the granite a thick/chunky look we wanted, and it seems to solve the drip problem. The fabricator charged slightly for the half bullnose, but it was a really small charge.

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Hi! I just got an ogee edge installed to. It was a decision made in haste and it wasn't the look I was going for. Do you think the Ogee edge on the kitchen island would work with a straight edge on the perimeter countertop? Im getting the perimeter installed next week so I need to decide on the edge. Am I mixing two different styles here? I was going for the "plain english kitchen" look......help!

Consider a double roundover edge. I think you can mix it...but really depends on the doorstyle...etc.