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Juparana Bronze

Hi, Tom.

I need to pick the granite for my kitchen remodel. The kitchen is L-shaped, about 13X13. My cabinets are maple with a toffee stain (medium) in a bead-board style. The island will be a cream/bisque glaze in the same bead-board style. The appliances are stainless, and the floor will be solid red oak in a stain yet to be determined. I want to stay away from yellowish wood and other colors as the cabinets have a pink rather than yellow undertone.

The kitchen is open to the dining room and somewhat to the living room.
Although the kitchen cabinets have a country feel, I am more eclectic and pick what I love. I do not like blues or grays as main colors. The colors that repeat in those rooms are warm burgundies, creams, ruddy roses, deep greens, warm tans. My kitchen gets plenty of light and receives lots of morning sun. The windows all look out to natural wooded property views — lush green in the summer and wood in the winter with fall and spring changes.

I love the granite with some movement and don’t like the smaller patterned or speckled stones as they seem too consistent and man-made to me. The favorite right now is Crema Bordeaux, which I saw yesterday on a slab.

Any other suggestions? Thanks for your site and expertise. I found you just in time!!

Lisa

Hello Lisa,

Your instinct to stay away from gray is pretty sharp given the maple and toffee satin cabinets with the bisque glaze island piece. That would have been a real drab mess. I do think a blue would be stunning but that is also not the best choice since you have a little pink cast going on in the inland glaze highlights.

You mentioned Crema Bordeaux which is one of my favorite colors from Brazil because of it many blended colorful orthoclase and quartz minerals. It is what I call, ‘more art than function’. However, with the red oak floors and all the other shades going on, it will be too busy and too playful. I really think you won’t love in long run.

There is a granite color called Juparana Bronze which is just perfect for your kitchen. (You can see a nice swatch of it on www.GraniteStock.com.) I believe this is just perfect and has less of the prime colors that are so ‘over-vivid’ in Crema Bordeaux. It will pull all the tones together in your kitchen and because it an exotic granite, you can pick out a nice piece with interesting movement for the island.

I hope that this helps and be sure to look at several bundles of Juparana Bronze and similar colors before deciding. Each bundle is different!

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