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Hate my granite

11 years ago
It looked so different in the sales yard. After installation - too dark. Too green. Supposed to be brown tones. Backsplash is glass subway sandstone color. Any suggestions? Change wall color? Etc?

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  • 11 years ago

    Live with it. You might get used to it.

  • 11 years ago
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    It takes time to get use to it. What other colors do you have in the kitchen. Do you have a window treament? that you can incorporate the colors into, using the fabric to bring everything together?

    Art work? etc.

  • 11 years ago
    Sometimes the best thing you can do is embrace the green color and put that color on the walls.
  • 11 years ago

    Perhaps the best answer is a change in lighting, however you would need to contact a lighting expert I think. Lighting can make all the difference in the world in a room. It looks lovely to me and I think once you spend more time in there you will grow to love it again.

  • PRO
    11 years ago

    Another option is to pull out one of the other 'earthtone' colors in the granite and then paint the walls in that tone. It will draw the emphasis away from the green and pick up off of that neutral tone. Another trick is once you find the color (using a color wheel, etc.) in the granite that you like, go a couple shades lighter within the same page so it isn't too dark.

  • PRO
    11 years ago

    its a fantastic granite, its just every thing around it is stark white, and the wall color is too close to the tile color... add more accents with the color of the granite, fruit dish etc. your door pulls seem a little small to me, i might go a bit beefier on those, the granite has a large pattern. also adding some pendant lights might help tie it together. i also wonder if going with satin nickle door pulls would be better.


  • 11 years ago
    Attached are a couple more pics. It is one large room with kitchen opened to dining and living room.

    Thanks for the suggestions. Will be getting window treatments and will look into changing wall color in kitchen.
  • 11 years ago
    Close up of granite.
  • 11 years ago

    I may get strung up by my bootstraps for suggesting this, but I would consider painting the walls white. Not the same white as your cabinets, maybe with a touch of grey - like stoneware pottery. It would help the door disappear that is in the middle of your kitchen and eliminate what I perceive as chopping up the space with colored walls. I also think the kitchen, reading all white will soften the granite. Add accents of any color but your dreaded green, to help green in granite fade.

  • 11 years ago
    I also got a "different" color granite. The stone yard slabs were inside, under fluorescent lights. The granite looked to have a white/gray cast to the background. Now installed, it has a gray/green cast to the background. Thankfully, it still goes with everything we picked out. And it still has the flowing grain we loved. A twinge of disappointment, but I got over it quickly. No natural material is going to perfectly match our vision. I think you have a beautiful kitchen. Many of the ideas above can help you "compensate" if you still feel you need to. Your other option is to pick another granite. Pricy, but an option.
  • 11 years ago
    And I meant to suggest change the light Bulbs! A soft white will give the granite a different tone than daylight or bright white bulbs, incandescent or LED or compact fluorescent.
  • 11 years ago

    If you can, take a cabinet sample to the granite store. If that isn't feasible, take a chunk of granite to the cabinets, then to the tile store etc. It's like trying to pick out a paint at the Home Depot. You need to get those samples out of store lighting!

  • 11 years ago

    I agree with miacometlady - paint the walls a much lighter color and it will minimize the darkness of the granite, which I think is beautiful btw.

  • PRO
    11 years ago
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    actually the color of the bulbs looks to be a very white light, from the close up pictures. but the stand back photos, look a little blue. so I would take a light bulb out and look at it to see if it gives a color temp on the bulb. but in the long scheme of things, if you paint the walls the bulbs may want to wait until that is done. all that being said, it really doesnt look bad to me at all.

  • 11 years ago
    It looks like bright white bulbs over the island/peninsula, and yellow or soft white under the cabinets. Do either of these make the granite look better to you? If so, change out the other bulbs. When we bought our current house, the kitchen was brown, and dark, cabinets, granite, floors, wall color, with yellow glass pendant light covers, and soft white bulbs. Just changing out the glass covers to white with a bright white bulb made a huge difference in the perceived colors. The other colors of the granite stood out and the whole kitchen was lighter.