Sexy granite

I love Maria's blog Colour Me Happy, it is one of my favorite, daily reads. The other day she had a post called 'Is Quartz Sexier Than Granite?' It was a great post and the comments were interesting to read. I was sort of surprised that a lot of people said, yes, quartz is sexier. It seemed like a good mix of opinions though.

Above granite is Yellow Bamboo.

 I have thought about this post a lot and I realized that yes, if you were to think of the colors of granite that we see every day....St Cecilia, Baltic Brown, Luna Pearl, and Ubatuba then no, I would not say that granite is sexy! The picture of St Cecilia below does not exude sexiness...to me anyway.

Is everyone looking at the whole picture though? Think outside the Home Depot granite colors. You can not tell me that the colors below aren't sexy! These colors are AMAZING and they come from the earth and they are all so unique even from slab to slab! I'm not doggin' on quartz.....I'm a huge quartz fan. I just don't think the sexiness factor can even be compared!
Above granite is Meteorus.

It's also funny because a lot of quartz colors are mimicking granite colors....and it's usually the boring, unsexy granite colors. So while I think the pure whites and other, more contemporary colors of the quartz are sexy, again it's not looking at the whole picture.

Marron Cohiba

Azul Macauba

Some of the comments I read were saying they don't like the "shine" of granite. Well, hone it!  Honing gives it a matte finish. There are also leather and satin finishes that we can apply to the granite slabs. These finishes take away the shine factor. I'm not a fan of polished granite either, the granite in my kitchen is honed and I have loved this finish!

Iron Red

I've been asking everyone I talk to (that knows stone) what granite color they think is the sexiest. By far, the Cosmos (pictured below) has been the most popular answer. This picture doesn't do it justice, you have to see it in person, but let me tell you....this is one sexy granite!

 

Verde Bamboo

So, what do you all think? Is quartz sexier than granite?

*Sidenote, I am showing stones that are commercially sold as granite. I realize some of them are quartzites geologically. :)