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Silver Supreme granite is the custom counter top material used in this beautiful kitchen by Progressive Countertop. An exquisite blend of cream and black with variations of brown and gray create a perfect color palette to compliment the dark wood cabinets, wood floors and white stone back splash. The black, double under mounted sink was also a custom choice along with the Ogee custom edge, to create a low maintenance space easy for clean ups. The beautiful flowing patterns and markings on this unique granite will create a show stopping space in your home.

Tan Brown granite kitchen countertops. Stone Art Design, Inc.

Andrew McKinney LED strip lighting is applied to the sides of cabinet behind the faceframe. This lights the entire cabinet and makes the cabinet glow.

Elegant white kitchen with cocoa glaze and GE Monogram stainless steel appliances Steve Martin Photos

MKW Surfaces

MKW Surfaces

MKW Surfaces

MKW Surfaces

A desk, chair, and stump table from the Robert Brown Furniture Collection. Photographed in a chic residence Brown designed in Atlanta's tony Buckhead neighborhood.

A local Houston art collector hired us to create a low maintenance, sophisticated, contemporary landscape design. She wanted her property to compliment her eclectic taste in architecture, outdoor sculpture, and modern art. Her house was built with a minimalist approach to decoration, emphasizing right angles and windows instead of architectural keynotes. The west wing of the house was only one story, while the east wing was two-story. The windows in both wings were larger than usual, so that visitors could see her art collection from the home’s exterior. Near one of the large rear windows, there was an abstract metal sculpture designed in the form of a spiral. When she initially contacted us, the surrounding property had only a few trees and indigenous grass as vegetation. This was actually a good beginning point with us, because it allowed us to develop a contemporary landscape design that featured a very linear, crisp look supportive of the home and its contents. We began by planting a garden around the large contemporary sculpture near the window. Landscape designers planted horsetail reed under windows, along the sides of the home, and around the corners. This vegetation is very resilient and hardy, and requires little trimming, weeding, or mulching. This helped unite the diverse elements of sculpture, contemporary architecture, and landscape design into a more fluid harmony that preserved the proportions of each unique element, but eliminated any tendency for the elements to clash with one another. We then added two stonework designs to the landscape surrounding the contemporary art collection and home. The first was a linear walkway we build from concrete pads purchased through a retail vendor as a cost-saving benefit to our client. We created this walkway to follow the perimeter of the home so that visitors could walk around the entire property and admire the outdoor sculptures and the collections of modern art visible through the windows. This was especially enjoyable at night, when the entire home was brightly lit from within. To add a touch of tranquility and quite repose to the stark right angles of the home and surrounding contemporary landscape, we designed a special seating area toward the northwest corner of the property. We wanted to create a sense of contemplation in this area, so we departed from the linear and angular designs of the surrounding landscape and established a theme of circular geometry. We laid down gravel as ground cover, then placed large, circular pads arranged like giant stepping stones that led up to a stone patio filled with chairs. The shape of the granite pads and the contours of the graveled area further complimented the spirals and turns in the outdoor metal sculpture, and balanced the entire contemporary landscape design with proportional geometric forms of lines, angles, and curves. This particular contemporary landscape design also has a sense of movement attached to it. All stonework leads to a destination of some sort. The linear pathway provides a guided tour around the home, garden, and modern art collection. The granite pathway stones create movement toward separate space where the entire experience of art, vegetation, and architecture can be viewed and experienced as a unity. Contemporary landscaping designs like create form out of feeling by using basic geometric forms and variations of forms. Sometimes very stark forms are used to create a sense of absolutism or contrast. At other times, forms are blended, or even distorted to suggest a sense of complex emotion, or a sense of multi-dimensional reality. The exact nature of the design is always highly subjective, and developed on a case-by-case basis with the client.

Garden makeovers by Shirley Bovshow in Los Angeles. Homeowner wanted a natural style garden with Mediterranean and native California plants. An avid hiker, the homeowner now has her own decomposed granite "trail." Photo by Shirley Bovshow, http://EdenMakersBlog.com

2 tier granite counter tops, custom cabinetry, copper sinks, hardwood floors, dark wood paneled island, bar stools, neutral colors update this beautiful kitchen remodel open to a dining area and family room area. Photographer Curtis Martin

Designed by Samina Datta of Reico Kitchen & Bath in Frederick, MD, this traditional kitchen remodel features Ultracraft cabinets in the door style Andover in Maple with an Arctic White with Brown Linen finish. Kitchen countertops are granite in the color Brown Fantasy and appliances are by Thermador. Photos courtesy of BTW Images LLC / www.btwimages.com.

Magma Gold Granite paired with custom made cabinets (by Woodworking by Design LLC, Greg Brittan). Backsplash is ceramic and stone tile. Windowsill and ledge above stovetop are also made of matching granite.