The Lake House Renovation - Frustration with Flooring and the Gigantic Island

UGH!

I have to express my frustration over our flooring.  We thought we had made a decision.  We ordered our flooring on December 22.  It was supposed to be in the following Tuesday.  After getting the run around from Floor and Decor, we were finally told it would be in yesterday, January 8th.  We called the store and they said it'd be ready by 4:00.  We got there.  Guess what?!  Still no flooring.

They told us to look around and see if they had something in stock that we could use instead of the lost flooring.

We found some other flooring we liked, but it was way more expensive.  They refused to discount it any, which would have been the right thing to do, so we refunded the whole order.

Here's those two floors...

It's all for the best, because the more we looked at the flooring we had purchased, the less we liked it.
We are going to look around a little more.  We are headed to Flooring Solutions this week!

Onto the next issue.

Our big island.

Originally, our island was 132 inches wide.

That's 11 feet of course.  Turns out, most granite comes in slabs of 9 - 10.5 feet.  So, the solution is to put a seam in it.  Unless you are me and completely OCD about that sort of thing.  Because the island is just going to be one big fat piece, a seam would be way too noticeable.  So, we are going to have to shrink our island.  Sad face!

Our new island will be 10 feet long.  This will open up our granite possibilities.

I went by Stone City this weekend to see exactly what our options would be.  For me, I want the granite to be more veiny rather than pebbly if that makes sense.  I also want the overall look to be more white/silver than beige.  

Here are the ones Stone City has that I'm interested in right now.  The slab size is noted on top of it with the Markup setting on the iPhone.

We were told that the slab needs to have an inch and a half on each side for the ledge/overhang.  

This one looked better in person.  It didn't photograph well.

This is my least favorite. I like it, but I just don't know if it goes with the rest of the house.  

I like how this looks like the moon.  It's very peaceful.

I really like this one, even though it is beige, but it's only 9 feet long. (It's called Fantasy Brown.)

So, the good news is that we've settled on all white cabinets again.  I was really hesitant to do that, because there were definitely some things in our old kitchen that drove me crazy about the white cabinets.  But, the overall look is beautiful.  My previous post has some of the kitchen inspirations I'm using to make my decisions.

Feel free to share your granite and flooring advice!

By the way, here's the current look of the kitchen.  So far to go!