As an owner & salesperson here at RAS Granite, I work with lots of different people on various projects. Yesterday was a busy day, meeting on site to see a project we are working on in University Place with a new design graduate Biz Lund of Design 54. We went on to Seattle to visit a supplier Meta Marble where we pulled out slabs of 2 cm Red Dragon.
The slabs were matched like a mirror, which is called book-matching. You can do a lot of special effects with book-matched slabs, and we used tape to look at how we might cut the pieces on the slabs including splash, keeping in mind how the veining might play into the whole picture of the room.
In the afternoon, I met a client at Pental Granite & Marble in Fife to look at different options on Soapstone. Usually 3 cm, Soapstone is softer than granite and usually a mineral oil is applied to the installed countertops to darken. We looked at a number of blocks. A block is a group of slabs. Within a block, slabs should be similar, but when you pick out your slabs you may want to not the number of the block as well as slab numbers to be sure you have gotten the actual slabs you selected. There are a number of different kinds and colors of soapstone-- in this case we were looking at Origional Green which is really more grey. The slabs are sometimes smaller than granite which can impact your seams.
Last night we had a great time at a Remodelers Council meeting at Hammond Knoll in Tacoma. They really have an amazing ability to clean and restore carpets and furniture. It's great to be a part of a big local group of designers, remodelers etc. There's a lot of history among everyone, and you know you can really count on people you know.
The slabs were matched like a mirror, which is called book-matching. You can do a lot of special effects with book-matched slabs, and we used tape to look at how we might cut the pieces on the slabs including splash, keeping in mind how the veining might play into the whole picture of the room. 
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