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How Did Granite Become The Kitchen Counter Standard?
11:29 am in architects, kitchens, lifeedited, materials, materials monday by TreeHugger
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Granite counters have been all the rage for a decade, but now it has come to this, an entire kitchen made of granite. I think it is incredibly ugly and probably ridiculously expensive, But seeing this image, and a recent discussion about counter choices for Graham Hill's LifeEdited project, reminded me of some research I had done into countertops a while back.
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