The shiny material is polished Uba Tuba granite for a lowered baking center. Traditionally whould have been marble, but the green and gold fleck of the Uba Tuba went well with the stainless appliances. The balance of the kitchen is honed slate. Slate is generally considered "soft" for a kitchen surface, but the honed surface allows scratches to be buffed out with a 3M pad. The cabinets were built to 28" deep and the backsplash shelf keeps the counters at 25"...standard depth. The wall mount faucet and the pot filler walls are built out to match the backsplash shelf depth. The faucets built into false walls and insulated behind to prevent any possibility of frozen pipes. The backsplash of the sink wall is the width of the windows and combines to make a deeper window sill, though at the same 4" depth as the rest of the splash shelves where it hits the counter....a slight benefit to having double hung sash at the windows. In retrospect, casement windows with a crank would have been easier to open given the depth of the counters. Hope this helps!

Thanks, looks great!

Beautiful renovation !

The countertops are great....are they soapstone? Would we be able to extend it fairly seamlessly into a box window??? Thank you for sharing your work. Love it!

The majority of the kitchen is Vermont slate, gauged and honed. The shiny bit is Uba Tuba Granite, dropped to a lower height for a baking center. Most stone comes in large sheets, about 5'X 9'...slate is generally smaller, around 4'X 7'. Running into a window is usually no problem for the fabricators.

I had no idea that slate could be used which would be great for heat and cold. I am going to look into it as a possibility. Thank you again!

No worries!