Santa Cecilia: Hall Bath

Welcome to installment #2 of granite talk. Last Friday, I posted about our kitchen granite and today its time for our hall bath, Santa Cecilia.

Our hall bath will be used mainly for guest but it will also function as the bathroom for baby. When we were selecting granite, my husband, fell in love with the granite but I was a little concerned about the possible yellow tone to it. I worried it would be just too yellow for my taste. I originally posted about the Santa Cecilia granite here, and mentioned in that post that through my research I had learned that this granite comes in varied tones. It can be almost white to very yellow.

Picture time! 

Hall bath mid-construction right after installation.As you can see in this photo, the granite appears to have a whiter look.

Hall bath a few days after move in. Here the granite shows its true color and you can clearly see the more yellow tone.

One more . .

Now it's close up granite time. I took a several photos of this granite because I wanted to really showcase the different elements.

One element of this granite that surprised me where the almost purple spots that we have throughout. They add a really interesting element but if I hadn't seen them previously I might have been a little put off by them. If you are thinking of selecting Santa Cecilia granite for your home, I would be sure to see the exact slab that will be installed. Some of the slabs we saw had these purple specs and others did not or didn't have as many.

As shown here, the granite also has some very dark black variations.

 A little larger look at the "purple" specs.

My overall thoughts on this granite are mixed. I like it in our hall bath but I don't personally know how I would feel about it on a larger scale. My only concern about a larger slab would be that the yellow-ish tones would really play out and I would say it is one of my least favorite things about the stone. However, if that's the look you are going for and its not a terrible look by any means then Santa Cecilia might be the granite for you. Compared to the darker granite we have in our kitchen this granite doesn't show water markers or dust nearly as much which is a big plus for it!

Next up . . Vicenza Brown and our master bath.