Reader question: Is this a terrible, terrible mistake?
Help! We are updating our vintage kitchen via installing granite counter tops. We love Verde Butterfly, however on a few different blogs I actually have study that this precise granite became '90s granite? I do not need to update to something that is already obsolete!
Please pardon my main headline and thank you to your question. The solution is yes, my bloggery brethren are correct. Updating to Verde Butterfly or any of its Brazilian kinfolk is probably now not the satisfactory idea.
This is what's referred to as Verde Butterfly.
It's closely associated with Verde Peacock.
And that vintage standby, Ubatuba.
Technically, all three of these stones are charnocktites. Charnocktite is a granite class. All 3 of those stones (and a bunch of others) have a whole lot of hypersthene in them. Hypersthene is the mineral that offers them their metallic inexperienced shade. The opaque, whitish blotches are feldspar. The distribution of the feldspar within the stone is what determines if a selected stone is going to be referred to as Butterfly, Peacock, Labrador, Ubatuba or what ever else a person makes up.
There are no standards for granite's common names with the aid of the manner. One yard's Peacock is some other yard's Butterfly. For the most element that doesn't be counted. However, I can not stand now not understanding what something is, so I pour over geology books and web sites so I can say such things as "Oh look! That's a charnocktite!" Indulge me.
There's in reality not anything wrong with Brazilian charnocktites. They do their job and that they do not cost an arm and a leg. And therein lies the rub. In order for a particular granite to be less expensive, there needs to be a whole lot of it around. I say in case you're going to get a granite counter, get one which nobody else has. In order to get a granite counter that no one else has, you have to spend extra money. Behold the tyranny of supply and demand.
These Brazilian charnocktites have been cut into kitchen counters in the US for the last 20 years; and they were some of the earliest, widely available stones out there. 20 years ago they were exotic. They're not any more.
If you want to be on the main area, see if you can't get a end other than a excessive gloss to your counters. Honed, brushed, leathered, flamed or another specialty finishes rework granite's look, even pedestrian granites. You would possibly need to examine Caesarstone or any of the opposite quartz composite brands too.
No remember what you end up with, please make certain you're going to an unbiased counter fabricator to have this completed. Make sure too that you are looking at slabs of stone in preference to samples whilst you're making this desire. Finally, be sure that you are choosing the slabs that'll be used to your counters. All stone is a manufactured from nature and no two examples of it are alike. Don't take any chances and suitable success!