Full view would be helpful as an added pic. The seam should be something you OK before the slab is fabricated. It should then require your approval before the counter leaves the shop.

Looking at the further back picture in your other thread, I am not sure how it would get better than what you have there. Not sure why there is a seam, were the slabs small?

It's an excellent seam. Yes, you're being too picky. They are fabricators, not magicians.

Here is a picture from a distance.We ordered 2 large slabs and we were asked if we wanted it laid out a certain way.I liked more color so picked different choices, than they had set up.I wasn't told it would make the seam more noticeable. I think it's more the color of white that runs through it that makes the line in the gray show up more. Thanks for your help.We have a way to go with the build and perhaps once everything is in, it won't "scream" at me!

To me that picture makes it look even better. The double bowl sink screams ugly at me more than the seam for sure.

I am a fabricator. " The seam should be something you OK before the slab is fabricated. It should then require your approval before the counter leaves the shop. " The 2nd sentence is incorrect. Once you approve the layout the fabricator saws the slabs and you get what you get. There is no need for a 2nd approval in the shop unless you are willing to pay for more material and labor to have the slabs cut differently than what you originally approved. Re: the original post; a very acceptable seam given the amount of movement in the stone.

A fabricator would say you get what you get. But we've seen fab errors, repairs of pooe quality at times. I'm not letting something into the house until the finished product has been inspected and approved. All setup before the work starts as a requirement for the job. A fabricator who foes quality work doesn't have a problem with that.

So it sounds like you are saying they had a layout with a better match but you rejected that one because you wanted more movement?

That's your prerogative, and that's fine, but there are always trade-offs. More movement or color in an areas came at the cost of a visible seam.

But for centuries when they used marble or granite cladding, they just let it do what it did and saved matching for specific applications. The invisible seam is very much a thing of modern times. We usually accept all sorts of random grain patterning in floors and cabinets and so forth, I don't know why the fixation on stone having to look like solid blocks.