Beautiful slab but I don't see it with the pebble look in the bathroom

I love Taj Mahal and that slab is stunning, but isn't also a soft quartzite? Just asking.

Congratulations!

Taj Mahal is very nice!

Its awesome! But be very careful with the template.

Beautiful! I love Taq Mahal. Your slab looks just like the one we recently installed. I did find that, in our case, it looks really good with a soft white cabinet. I think it will look really nice with your walnut vanity. I'm not sure about gray because we didn't try pairing it with that color. Maybe a light-to-medium greige that leans more warm will work rather than a very cool gray.

Thanks everyone.

CP not using that pebble anymore. Going to change it out.

stir_fry Taj Mahal is one of the stronger quartzites actually. I made sure to ask my fabricator.

Jeffrey very nice!

Suzy what do you mean be careful with the template?

AJCN I agree about the grey cabinet. I will have to check out other colors. Thank you for the suggestion.

Now onto finding a nice dining area light that goes with my pendants! I was told I had to get rectangular light for a rectangular table. Hmm.....

It’s gorgeous!

Suzy what do you mean be careful with the template?

Don't let the fabricator decide where seams, etc are or even where you want any interesting parts of the stone.

Yes, you need to meet with the fabricator to tape the templates (cut-outs traced for your exact cabinet bases and showing where the sinks go) onto the stone. When you do that its important to consider the pattern in the slab. Most people would probably want the nicest cut for the largest run or on an island. In your case, maybe its the master bath? See how that slab has two or three natural fissure on the right? If you put a template there vertically, your top will have pattern running front to back. For the longest run you will probably need to go horizontal but the pattern doesn't run the whole length. The typical slab is 120"x55" or jumbo 130"x65". If you can draw out your tops with the dimensions and you tell me the size of the slab, I could give you some ideas.

NewEnglandgal - I LOVE LOVE LOVE your pendents! Where did you get them?

The slab is LOVELY, it is all coming together for you - how exciting.

Rectangular lights for a rectangular table? that is the 1st I've heard of that.

Amazon4 - under the cabinet lights are a really good idea, you kitchen looks lovely!

I was told I had to get rectangular light for a rectangular table.

I think it's *easier* to pair a chandelier with a table when the shapes are the same. I've been looking for nearly 2 years for a chandelier (rectangular or linear/kitchen island) to go above my rectangular table, and I haven't found anything yet that both my husband and I can agree on.

The trouble I have with round chandeliers is that it seems like one is insufficient (it looks unbalanced to me, to have the ends of the table so open, with something hanging smack dab in the middle), two gives me visual ping pong problems (which one do I look at? this one? no that one? no back? no back again?), and three looks too cluttered. :-/

Sigh. I am cursed.

Beautiful choice, seems to be the colors you are looking for! Great contrast with the cabinetry!

gthigpen Thanks so much!

Suzy I absolutely am meeting with the fabricator to pick out where to template will go for all three countertops. I believe none of the three will need a seam. My interior designer used her program to show me the three countertops on the slab and she said it should be just fine with extra.

Are you saying I should try templating front to back on the right? Id have to see the width of the slab. I never thought to do this.

Right now I am getting ready to hold a big fundraiser for a coworker with cancer. After this weekend I will get the measurements to you. I know my master is 72" (It has a bump out) by 25."

My vanity base for the guest bathroom is 36". I am not sure on the laundry room.

The slab I need to look up but remember her saying the size was 122"x something. lol

Anna, Lamps Plus Cora 11". 199.00 each. Thank you for your kind words.

Amazon beautiful kitchen! You must be so excited to move in!

One Devoted Dame I hear ya! Been looking for many months. Nothing wow's me. I look at everything and think "eh."

LB Interiors thank you so much. It is a beautiful stone.

One Devoted Dame I hear ya! Been looking for many months. Nothing wow's me. I look at everything and think "eh."

Seriously, I get so frustrated sometimes, that I feel like screaming, "Why, oh why, is the world plagued with so many danged ugly light fixtures?!?!?!"

My husband offered to make one (again). I will probably take him up on it.

I have Taj in our kitchen and I love it. Beautiful stone. Very hard stone. Those slabs look great. Our island has painted base cabinets in a gray/blue. Our peripheral cabinets are dark wood and the combination looks great. I think I have a photo. Bbl

One Devoted Dame If someone offered to make me one I would not even know what to ask for. I just know when I see it, I'll know. :) Do you at least have it narrowed down to shape or somewhat a look? I did find this light and have been considering it. it comes in two sizes. I agree I would not want two lights over my table.

My next search is for a mirror for my master. I can get a mirror with a beveled edge if I cannot find anything that hits me.

Flo your kitchen sounds stunning! I would love to see your kitchen. Do you love it?

I never considered Taj Majal because all the slabs I had looked at looked much more tan and brown and I needed something with some grey in it.

Now I need to figure out what color cabinet to go with the Taj in my laundry room. This is the floor tile that will go in my laundry room. It is such a beautiful soft grey. I am using the solid grey as a border. That tile will be in my mud room as well. I need suggestions for cabinet colors. I was thinking a very light and soft grey?

The slab is going in my master and guest bathrooms and laundry room but not my kitchen. I should not have any seams.

I have Silver Grey granite going on my perimeter (see Silver Grey in picture below). I wanted soapstone but not the maintenance. I think this looks pretty darn close!

I will have BM Balboa Mist perimeter cabinets with the Balboa Mist and SW Sea Serpent for my island with leathered Wicked White (basically Super White)for my countertop. I really wanted the plum for my island but it just did not look good with my counter top choices and the BM Shadow on my cabinet sample looked like Barney purple even though it looks so dark on the chip and on a wall.

I am very happy with all my choices now and think it will look great together. I am doing brushed brass handles.

This is the SW Sea serpent color below. I love it. It is such a pretty blue.

how about repeating the sea serpent for the mud room cabinets?

Look at Virginia Mist or Jet mist. Closet look to soapstone and much easier to maintain. They are granite and you could get honed finish if you like that. The one you pictured above is very dated look.

I will try to get some photos today. Sun isn’t cooperating though.

Hope these pics help you.

One Devoted Dame If someone offered to make me one I would not even
know what to ask for. I just know when I see it, I'll know. :) Do you
at least have it narrowed down to shape or somewhat a look? I did find
this light and have been considering it. it comes in two sizes.

I really like the fixture you pictured up there (Kichler's Dover) with modifications (I'm a total basket case and don't like seeing exposed bulbs, lol), but my husband said it was too fancy. Much of what I really really like is too girly. :-/

My husband offered something like this as inspiration, and since he's a hobby woodworker -- combined with my dad being an electrician -- it should be doable:

Ballard Designs - Arturo

I'd prefer some swirly gigs on the inside corners of the rectangle (when viewed from underneath), instead of those iron strappy things, as well as a wider base for the "pillar candles" to sit on (can't have candles teetering on the edge of anything, even if they aren't real).

So, hopefully, we'll have something done soon. I'm tired of waiting. ;-)

Are you still doing a plum island?!?! Or am I confusing you with someone else? lol Taj Mahal would look great with plum, I think!

One Devoted Dame yes I wanted that plum island but it just did not go with my countertops and when I got the BM Shadow sample cabinet it looked awful! I didn't believe it was the right color but when I put it up to the color chart it matched. The blue looks so nice with both counters and cabinets. My husband is relieved, he didnt like the plum.

I like your chandelier. I do like the one I posted above but am going to wait a bit and see how I feel.

I am almost at the "I dont give a shit anymore" point lol

I stopped at my cabinet place and found a cabinet for my laundry room that is much like my perimeter cabinet in my kitchen that I like a lot and it looks nice with the grey floor because it pulls from the creamy white in the tile.

CP I considered both the blue and also the walnut but the grey tile I love would not look right.

Taj Mahal is indeed such a glorious stone! Great advice from your fabricator and beautiful choice. Congratulations and good luck with your project!

Taj Mahal is beautiful! I need to check on that!

Flo, your kitchen is lovely. I do find it ironic that one of the "Pros" broke a kitchen forum rule and put their cooktop in their island ;) You rebel...lol!

Haha! I didn’t design this kitchen we are leasing but a wonderful home. The owner is very talented and love her style of Country French. So just wanted to set that straight. Haha. If I redid this I wouldn’t put stove top in island. It is so much messier.

Love the Taj Mahal. Can’t go wrong with this beautiful stone.

That slab is lovely!

We used Taj Mahal in our kitchen reno three years ago and I still smile every time I look at it. It does play nicely with white and grey/greige. This is the combo we used:

Thank you everyone! Flo, AKA Ms. Rebel, my last home had the cook top in the island and I didn't mind it one bit! Now I will have the sink in the island. There is just the two of us and I do dishes before I even sit down to eat so not much mess.

LWH02 We looked at a cabinet similar to the one on the right and it looked fantastic with the Taj Mahal slab but the cabinet color did not look good with my grey tile so am going to go with the lighter color for my laundry room. I initially thought I could use left over counter from my Wicked White island for the laundry countertop (my fabricator thought we might be able to squeeze it in) but my interior designer and I put it into her program and found it would be nearly impossible so this is why I am now looking for a new countertop AFTER I had picked out the tile. Unfortunately I love the grey tile and it will be in my mud room hallway and my laundry.

Because the quartzite is more expensive I wanted to use as much as possible from the Taj slab to make it worthwhile. I knew the slab would look great with my other two cabinet choices.

Suzyq53 I am awaiting the exact measurements for my counters. My new KD (last one left a few weeks ago due to illness) says she is getting ten extra inches in the laundry room!

Master bath is 72x 25 (we have bump outs), Laundry room she believes is 88"x22" and guest is 36" vanity.

@amazon4 your kitchen looks great! can you share brand and color of backsplash tile you used? i am looking at adex earth ash gray 3x6 which is a light warm solid gray

i just purchased book end slabs of perla venata for my kitchen and pairing with dove where perimeter cabinets. wanted to pair with gold pulls and lightening. trying to determine undermount quartz/silgrant sink color - dark gray or off white. i think if i go with gold pulls and lighting i need to go with a lighter sink color. but my hubby disagrees

Beautiful slab Betty!

Lovely! I've never seen a Taj-Mah that I didn't like.

The tile choice, eh ... I'd keep looking.

@Betty Topping

Thank you!

The brand was Pasha, It was high definition wall tile, I believe the color was ivory. Glazed porcelain, 3 x 6.

You are going to love the TM :-)

@Mrs. Pete - yes the backsplash is the one thing that is truly pending until we get the stone in.