The threat of bodily harm was everywhere.  Booby traps lie at my feet, missiles hurdled across the ceiling, flails dangled just above my head.  I tiptoed between hundreds of domino lines of tenuously balanced boulders.

I was a natural born klutz in a warehouse stocked with hundreds and hundreds of 7 foot slabs of granite. 

My client is having her Kitchen counters redone and I accompanied her to Marble Systems Showroom to choose her slab.  We had one of her cabinet doors, and I had selected the paint colors in most of her house, so it was easy work.

…outside of how ridiculously dangerous the place was.  It was soon very clear why we were not able to enter the warehouse without signing a waiver.  Long metal bars projected out at very different lengths from each stack of stones, so navigating the aisles was difficult.  To make it worse, the paint on the metal had worn away, leaving them camouflaged against the concrete floor.  In spite of the recession, the warehouse was bustling with activity.  Workers moved stones on hydraulic cranes all around us.  Big black boxes hung from the ceiling right at our heads.  One of the slabs we considered was only feet from a huge pit that had been dug right in the center of the space, with little railing around it.  In the middle of the pit, workers loaded a truck with slabs.

Beyond fearing for my life, I loved it there.  Each huge slab was a work of art fashioned with nature’s fancy.  I especially admired the pieces with Labradorite.  For Cinde, we chose Shivakashi Gold with a 2 inch Copper Slate tile backsplash.  It’s going to be perfect and definitely worth the jeopardy.