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Which Titanium granite design to use

7 years ago

Hi! After living in our house almost 21 years, we are updating our honey oak kitchen! Our contractor is replacing the cabinet doors with maple wood and painting the uppers white and the bottom black. The island will be painted black as well. The backsplash will be a subtle white iridescent glass subway tile and the walls will be painted white. The white will not be a bright cool white but more neutral.

At this time, we are not updating the floors. I did have my heart set on white quartz countertops but when we vacationed in a house that had titanium granite, I just absolutely loved it. It was like looking at a piece of art! There are 3 different looking slabs that I really like. The island (84”x40”)will have the most of the movement. I’m just having trouble deciding between them and what would look best with black and white cabinets. I will attempt to post pictures of the slabs and of my kitchen so you can see the layout.


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  • 7 years ago
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    Slab #1


    Titanium Granite for Kitchen · More Info


  • 7 years ago

    Slab 1

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    Slab #2


    Titanium Granite for Kitchen · More Info


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    Titanium Granite for Kitchen · More Info

    Slab #3

  • 7 years ago

    pics of my current kitchen



  • 7 years ago

    You're going to love the titanium granite. We had it installed in our kitchen six years ago and still discover something new in it every now and then. If you go to my projects, you can see pictures.


    As for the slab, they all seem pretty similar. If you can inspect them closely, maybe you will see a particular color or as we call it "diamond" in the granite that you particularly like.

    flakeyjakers thanked dovetonsils
  • 7 years ago

    Hi Sina! The island is located to the back of the kitchen by the windows in the first pic I posted of my kitchen. We replaced our kitchen table with the island a couple of years ago
    We will also be replacing the 90's lighting with updated clear glass fixtures (still looking) to project the lighting out and I do have the window shades down so it wouldn't glare in the pics. The black bottom cabinets are another thing I have been debating. I was thinking of doing an all white kitchen with a black island but with having boys and a dog, I thought it would be better to have darker bottoms. I will check with our fabricator about the templates. I have also attached the tile I was thinking of using and I have a sample of a white glass tile as well. Thank you!!

    Titanium Granite for Kitchen · More Info


  • 7 years ago

    @dovetonsils - Your kitchen looks beautiful with the Titanium, especially with the white cabinets. I like how you mixed it with the dark islands. Wow, what a difference from your old kitchen!

  • 7 years ago

    I love #3, it has the most movement to me ... good luck!

  • 7 years ago

    I have had this granite (some say it's a quartzite?) in my brain for a while... still contemplating whether I will do off white cabinets OR maple stained.... anyway I love this granite and I think you cannot go wrong with any of the slabs. When I looked at what you were considering, I liked each one better than the previous but not sure if that is reliable. I think 2 or 3. (but if you opted for 1, it'll still be gorgeous!!).

    flakeyjakers thanked salonva
  • PRO
    7 years ago

    Dark cabinets get just as dirty as white but the white tells you whaen, As for the cabinets themselves I would want MDF if all the cabinets are being painted it holds the paint better and does not move with different moisture levels I love that granite BTW and would like it better in an all white kitchen. The lighting should be LEDs in 4000K range so that colors look true at night and in the daytime.

    flakeyjakers thanked Patricia Colwell Consulting
  • PRO
    7 years ago

    That is tough to choose... Can you get pictures of these slabs straight on so you can do your own template layout on them?? They always look beautiful as a slab - you need to consider the breakdown of all the pieces and how they are cut out...

    Something like this ( done with the 2nd slab - it was the straightest picture )


    This is how you can really "see" exactly what the tops will look like - each area...

    Either way it is a beautiful stone!

    flakeyjakers thanked Debbi Washburn
  • 7 years ago

    @salonva - Thanks! The place where we vacationed had cream colored cabinets and it looked gorgeous. I've attached a pic of her kitchen. You can see a little bit of the titanium. It had beautiful variations. @ Patricia Colwell Consulting - I see all these beautiful pictures with titanium with white cabinets on Houzz! If I do all white cabinets and paint the island black, will that still look good? I have a couple of weeks before I pick out the paint. I went to a paint store that had Benjamin Moore to see what they had before I get samples. There are way too many whites! I was thinking of Simply White, is there a warm white that you have used for clients that isn't too yellow? Thank you so much on the LED light info, I will be sure to look when we get our lighting. Even though we have the big windows, they face the west so we have to pull the blinds in the afternoon so that kitchen doesn't get too hot.

  • 7 years ago


    Titanium Granite for Kitchen · More Info


    Titanium Granite for Kitchen · More Info


  • 7 years ago

    @Debbi Washburn - Thank you - that is basically our layout! Unfortunately, the other 2 slabs had slabs across from them so I couldn't back up far enough to get a shot of the slab straight on. I wish I could take the slabs home and see how it looks on my island. lol.