Kitchen Counter tops REVEAL!

FINALLY, the time has come that I can share with you my counter top install!  Without further mumbo jumbo, here's a pic:

Other than my desk area, which I showed you in my sneak peek here, we only have two sides that meet at a 90 degree angle.  But don't let that fool you, there were many tricky parts here!  For instance the side shown in the picture below obviously had to have the exact cut out where the stove goes.  We took our counter tops off and to a local business for them to cut exactly.  Apparently the did not measure twice and cut once.  This side was wrong the first time they cut it for us (as was the desk area!).  Since it was their mistake they were more than courteous to get the new one cut quickly (like an hour later) and very easy to work with.  Problem was we had tried to install over a weekend and they were not reopen until Monday.  Hubs works and has school so we couldn't reinstall until the following weekend.  :( 

 Even with all of that drama, check out these beauties on a close up!  (Like my recipe holder?  You can read about it here.)

Here is another angle, just because I am really pleased with them :)

 And now for the other side.  It was cut perfect the first time!  Yay!  Problem with this side?  We *wanted* to put in a new sink.  And that meant DIY install.  So I purchased a granite sink in black with much deeper bowls.  My hubby and step dad followed directions exactly on how to 'push out' or 'tap out' the area at the top of the sink to place the vent for the dishwasher.  To no avail.  It cracked, not on just one sink, but two!  So with all that work we decided to just go ahead and install that side with the sink we had.  We were pretty skeptical that it would stand out like a sore thumb, but as you can see below, it wasn't very bad after all!

The local business convinced me to take this end piece home and see if I wanted to install it.  I reluctantly did just that.  Now that it's on, I like it!

 And once we worked through all those obstacles, the corners presented ONE more!  One side was higher than the other.  So the corner was not level.  My brilliant hubby came up with an idea of using some thin pieces of metal to ever so gently raise the side that was lower to meet up with the higher side.  Make sense?  Below you can see that it worked out fantastic!

And one last shot because I am in LURVE!  And after all that hard work, I think it was worth it!

So what do you think?