Aside from choosing between a light and dark gray-colored granite countertop, there are other considerations to help you ...

Blue gray, from the Adam-Pirie Quarry, is the darkest, has the finest grain, polishes the best, and is the best for shape carving. Medium gray costs about 10 percent more than light gray and dark blue ...

What isn’t an abstraction is the granite, in crisscrossing white, speckled gray and black, all hand cut. The rock serves as walls, benches, stoops and perches to lean against.