"Holy progress, Batman!"

Thursday was chock full of accomplishments.

Painters showed up at 7am to finish smoothing the walls, doing some priming, and filling in the trim. Construction guys were there, too, finishing out the column, adding the wood topper to the half wall, and getting the appliance pantry framed out.

Around 9am comes my favorite part!!! Our counters have arrived! It was raining and we have that demon slope in our driveway. The slowly got their truck down the driveway and used it as the homebase for moving the slabs and fine tuning them in certain areas.

After much tugging, pulling, lifting, and adjusting they got our beautiful counters in place.

Aren't they wonderful!

After talking with several granite people, then with Ceramic Harmony who did our countertops, these "Brown Fantasy" countertops are sometimes classified as quartzite, sometimes granite, other times marble. Ceramic Harmony acquired our slabs from Stone Connection in Atlanta, who calls their slabs "Onice Fantasy" and classifies the stone as a marble, though when acid and etch-tested it performs with more integrity than your typical marble surface. Sweet! One of the first things I wanted to make was homemade lemon bars, and lemon tears up marble. I should be safe....right? We'll find out...

The plumber is expected Friday, getting the faucet, disposal, and pot filler hooked up. Our pot filler could double as a weapon...or as a dousing mechanism for any misbehavers sitting on the couch on the other side of the wall. And electricians are set to come Friday as well, to get our pendant lights, dining room chandelier, and living room fan up and running.