Sometimes I find that the best thing to do is show a picture. Is this what you are talking about? I got this by googling "MAGAZINE SUMMER 2010 BEAUTIFUL KITCHENS"

Here is a link that might be useful: hopefully this is it?

Thanks for the response - it took a minute, but here is the link:

http://www.homeanddesign.com/article.asp?article=21104

Ohhh...Wow. That is pretty. I would still print out the picture and then, with the help of your fabricator, draw the shape you want.

Thanks brainadarnell - we really like it, but I'd really like to see other variations of it before we go ahead and pay for the granite - I'd be content with tile too, but would prefer this - just not so fancy. Know what I mean?

We had the templater here, but he didn't have any specific pictures with him to show us. I'm one of those need to see it before I do it kinda people.

We did a granite sill for the window. Our kitchen has a full granite backsplash too, but one could do something similar in just the window area. Our window starts pretty close to the granite so there is just a thin vertical piece of granite between the counter top and the sill, but one could do a taller piece similar to the Home and Design picture if the window was higher.

The window is a pass through to the patio so there is a granite shelf outside the window too.

I didn't want grout behind the sink, so here's what we did:

CloudSwift - your poolside view is amazing and I absolutely love the double sided sill - that's awesome!

Lizzard - that's exactly what we had in mind - thank you so much for your post and picture - that's the exact setup we had in mind - with the sill, the granite and then the tile every where else. Did they have a name for what that section of granite is called? Was there a particular edge that you used for this?

That is the other thing that I need to make a decision about - the edge in the magazine pic is a double bullnose (I think?), but we wanted something simpler, like what you have Lizzard - so having a name for it would help.

Thanks everyone for your replies!

lizzard2you, that is awesome! I love it and I'm going to do that, too! Thanks so much for posting this, it solves my issue of water splashed grout and windowsill both! How clever.

The near edge in the magazine looks like some kind of ogee. The sink might have a full bullnose which is what I have. If I was doing it over, I'd probably have just the quarter circle edge on the top (because DH really likes the rounded over edge) and straight down on the bottom - is that a half bull nose? I think that lizzard's is an eased or pencil edge - I like that a lot too.

I don't have a clue what it's called...I just gave the fabricators a picture I found on here and told them that's what I wanted :-). The edge is eased and the windowsill is a bit longer than the granite supporting it. The original granite (don't ask!) was the same length for both pieces and was not very attractive.

Here's a pic from a bit further away that gives the full effect:

And here was the original granite so you can see how it would look with a something veiny:

{{!gwi}}

we did something similar in the last kitchen, though we did a scoop up on either side of the window, so it curved up to a granite window sill