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Marble Counters: What Everyone Needs to Know {Part 3}

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Julie

If you’re just reading this series for the first time you can get caught up by clicking the links below:

Part One
Part Two

This next leg of the journey – in many ways – proved to be every bit as frustrating as the first part.

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Marble Counters: What Everyone Needs to Know {Part 2}

Posted on July 16, 2015 by Julie

I left you hanging a little bit when I began Part One of our marble counter tops story. I didn’t mean to leave you with such a cliff hanger! If you missed it, you can read it here.

The truth is, this is is long story and I wasn’t sure if I should shorten it up in to just two posts or give more details and write several. In the end, I have decided to share it all in several posts in hopes that our story can help someone else who is working with contractors and/or choosing and installing natural stone counters — not just marble.

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Marble Counters: What Everyone Needs to Know {Part 1}

Posted on June 30, 2015 by Julie

About a year ago, we began what would become a long process of renovating our kitchen.

The actual renovation from the first day of demolition to the day the kitchen became functional and put back together was about 6 weeks — a little longer than projected and definitely came with it’s share of stresses.

I’m not going to go through all of the details of the ups and downs of kitchen renovation in this post, but I do want to tell you the story of our marble counters in hopes that it will be helpful to those of you thinking about installing marble — or any natural stone counter top — in your home. (If you want to read my advice about how to survive a kitchen remodel go here.)

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