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Hassin Bin Sober

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8. If you are up for tiling why not make a custom tile counter top?
Sun Jun 25, 2017, 08:22 PM
Jun 2017

You can use your subway tile or go with a larger format tile to reduce your grout lines. 12x24 or even 24 By 24 would work.

Either edge the edges with bull nose pieces or have field tile bullnosed. The the local tile shop might have someone who can bullnose tile for you. Or band the edge with hard wood beveled and stained. Or if you pick a travertine with honed finish you can probably bullnose it your self with an orbital sander.

Or, my favoririte idea, check out the local granite supplier. You want a warehouse not a store front.

My local shop here has remnants they will fabricate. They also have undermount sinks for cheap.

They also have a bunch of tops that were not picked up, mis measured or whatever for cheap.

I took these pictures for a friend but he didn't like the color match for what we were doing. These were like $75 bucks and could have been cut to fit.





We ended up picking a remnant from the pile.




And I made him a cabinet to fit. It will be finished with milk paint sampled in the pic. We also had a window sill made for the shower.

All in we have about $360 involved in the top, undermount sink and window sill and backsplash. Which is about what he was going to spend on a glacier bay crap vanity from HD with a plastic "cultured marble" top.



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