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Amazing Granite Future-House

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Vyara in Blog, Misc.

I can blog about granite countertops in Chicago all day long, but today is a rare opportunity to write about and real granite house.

This structure comes to us from Spain, and while it’s not a 100$ granite house (like in my dreams), it’s still got a lot of granite going on.

All the building is dressed in “black villar granite stone”. In this part of the property big windows, with hidden woodwork, are opened, achieving a lot of light for the inside space. In the porch, the window in the main living room, of 10 meters, is automatically hidden, connecting indoors and outdoors.

As noted in the linked article, this home looks like half skate-park and half moon base, and is quite a unique piece of architecture.

Go check out all the pictures, and then come back here to thank me for exposing the whole deal to you.

Photos Added to Gallery

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Vyara in Blog, Portfolio

We updated our photo gallery in a big, big, big way.

Go check it out right here – the world’s best granite countertops gallery!

I think the overhauls to the site are almost completed.

NEXT: a new estimate form.

Stay tuned!

October is National Granite Countertops Month

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Vyara in Blog, Misc.

Long story, but I was over reading about National Dental Hygiene Month and found myself wondering there were any similar celebrations – or notable months – for the granite countertops industry.

The only thing I could find was this site that picks a Granite of the Month from some company in Malaysia.

This just won’t do, so I am declaring October to be National Granite Countertops Month. Activities will include doing everything the same as we did it last month, which will also carry over into next month.

Somehow I don’t think this is going to catch on.

Granite Fishing Lure Displays

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Vyara in Blog, Fishing Lures

We’ve started doing some very interesting custom fishing lure stands for a local client here in Chicago.

Each one is completely unique. If you’re a fisherman – or looking for a good gift for one – please do get in touch, and we’ll tell you all we can about these items.

You can see more of these on our gallery page – we’ll be adding more as we make them, as well as the rest of our kitchen and bathroom counter work. The new site is still a slight work in progress!

FREE Remnants

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Vyara in Blog, Remnants, Specials

For a limited time only, we’re opening our yard to the public and letting you pick from our large selection of granite remnants.

These are pieces left over from finished jobs that we’re not found other uses for. There are some excellent pieces here, and the best part is we’re letting you take them 100% FREE.

If you’re not sure what to do with a random piece of granite, check out the other special we’re running right now: our same-day bathroom vanity installs.

Call or email today – this won’t be available for long. We need to clear some space in the yard, though!

Vanity Deal

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Vyara in Blog, Specials

For a very limited time, we’re running a special on bathroom vanities for our Chicago area customers, both old and new.

These prices will not stay up for long.

$165 for 24″ wide (any color)
$222 for 36″ wide (any color)
$280 for 48″ wide (any color)
$337 for 60″ wide (any color)
$395 for 72″ wide (any color)

We can also do any and all custom sizes, as needed.

Here’s the really nice part: we can have the vanity ready the same day you place your order, and have it installed the following day for a small charge of only $100! Call or email now – like I said, this won’t last long.

Granite Countertops Return

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Vyara in Blog, Misc.

The title of this post has nothing to do with anything – I just wanted to not that the site has been totally redesigned, almost from scratch.

There’s still a lot of work to do, although to note the missing pieces today (it’s a Monday) would be silly, since most everything will be finished in a couple days (Wednesday).

Thus, if you read this on Thursday – or maybe even Tuesday – you’d see my list of elements yet to be completed, and since they would already would have been completed, you’d become confused.

The best thing to do is just not read the site until Friday. Stop here and come back then, and also browse around the site for all of our great granite countertops deals and specials.

Granite Gets Political

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Vyara in Blog, Misc.

I’m not going to plant my political views all over the company blog, but I just thought this was interesting no matter where you sit on the right-left scale.

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has started something called No Labels, which is in some way a gathering of big money players who are possibly going to withhold their company’s campaign contribution dollars.

Mr. Schultz is getting on the internet tonight right here to speak to America. Since he’s not broadcasting against Dancing With the Stars or anything, I think I will tune in and watch.

Will you (or did you) watch this and/or hear about it? Thoughts?

(Apologies for no granite countertops talk this week, but I’m trying to figure out which potential candidates are pro-granite countertops.)

More Granite Countertops Twitter Hashtags

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Vyara in Blog, Granite Countertops Chicago, Twitter

Here’s a recent sink job picture – click it to enlarge.

You may note I’ve vandalized it with what’s known as a Twitter hashtag.

I wrote about these a couple weeks ago, distraught at the lack of good granite-based Twitter hashtags.

After gathering suggestions, here’s what you have put forth, in no particular order:

#granitepower
#getgranite
#granitecountertops
#granite2012
#granite
#ilovegranite

These are all fine, although I struggle to figure out what to do with any of them.

That said, for whatever reason this post made me remember I wanted to bring up my idea for a series of waterjet cutting videos with the boss. I will do that this week!

We Won Google

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Vyara in Blog, Google, Granite Countertops Chicago

(This is a pic from a recent job – click it to enlarge.)

I was doing one of my random searches for granite-this-or-that on Google, and decided to see what came up for “best granite coutertops ever”.

I was expecting perhaps some massive countertop from an Arabian palace, or maybe a giant countertop from some lavish European hotel.

What did I get instead?

Well, sitting there in the top spot is none other than this very website.

Yep, we even beat out www.bestgranitecountertop.com, which by all logic, should’ve won that game.

The only question is what to do now. Once you’ve been declared the world’s best countertops by Earth’s most important search engine…what else is there?

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