It seems like putting the cart before the horse, since we haven't even picked out cabinets yet, but we purchased our counter top material yesterday. We decided on soapstone, since we are trying to restore that original bungalow feel and many of the original arts and crafts bungalows had soapstone counter tops. We bought the soapstone from M. Teixiera, one of the few places to buy soapstone around. To find out a little more about soapstone, you can check out their website here.
The soapstone we chose is called Julia, and it doesn't have the big white streaks through it. It is more subtle, with black and green swirls once it is oiled. The natural color of soapstone is dark gray, but when you put mineral oil on it, the color darkens and becomes black and green. We needed to buy it now, since the company isn't getting any more Julia and they are almost out. It was lucky I could go up to the city yesterday to pick out our slabs. The slabs aren't that big, and it is going to take 3 slabs to cover our counter tops. The main reason we will need three is that the island is big enough that there won't be a two foot strip left over after fabricating the island.
The picture at the top shows the natural color of the soapstone. In the picture below, I put water on half of it to simulate what it will look like with the mineral oil on it.
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