I was recently speaking with a consumer who wanted larger flecks in their granite worktop surface. I find it interesting how little people actually know about stone, granite, marble, slate, you name it! This particular person wanted to have blue pearlescent granite surfaces installed in her kitchen and wanted as big flecks in the stone as she possibly could. I tried to explain to the lady that stone such as the kind she had chosen was natural and it came how it came.
I also explained to the lady that the flecks in the stone would actually give the impression under certain light conditions that they grow in size. As the light reflects from the pearlescent markings within the stone they have a kind of glow, which causes an increase size appearance in the flecks. Of course, I also explained to the lady that there are other forms of stone that offer this kind of light effect. Starlight Black, a man made stone formed with quartzite has glass, mirror-like flecks within, which also give off a glow when light shines on them.
This did unfortunately raise the question of whether the flecks found in the quartz stone could be made larger by default, but I said that the vendors who supply this kind of worktop stone all use virtually the same machinery to manufacture it and thus it generally forms the same throughout. Naturally there are still batches where the flecks are bigger, whereas there are also batches where the flecks are smaller, but this is just because of the way they form when they form.
My advice is to go to a showroom and get a strong torch light and then test the differing stone types for the glow that best suits you. Lights can always be mounted in kitchen areas, where they best create a glow on the surface of your stone. Alternatively, you may have a window positioned just right, so as to capture the rays of the sun!
How ever you achieve the glow effect to your stone, it is in my opinion that the glow effect is a much better way to increase the size of the flecks opposed to actually having bigger flecks. Another factor to consider is that if you are to insist on having larger flecks, the price of the stone to obtain, could also increase!
Granite Worktops [http://www.hartgranite.co.uk] can be purchased from HartGranite.co.uk. Being based in Broxbourne, on the border of Hertfordshire and Essex, they are able to supply and install worktops and other stone products to many locations throughout the UK.
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