Let's hope it's ugly!

One of my biggest fears will come on the day that the custom countertop guy comes to install the Silestone. Why? One thing I never realized before is that the former owners had the new (ugly) tiled countertop dropped over the old countertop.

One can still see the outline of the rounded edge of what had to be a good old 50's Formica countertop (the metal around the edge is gone, alas). I had noticed the outline before, but didn't think much about it. When the countertop guy commented on it, my mind started racing.

What if those countertops are the coolest retro thing I've ever seen? What if he pulls off the tile overlay and there exists something like this?

You know what I love most about this picture? See the "Early American" arrow cabinet hardware? See my earlier post about said cabinet hardware? Now do you see why my mind is flirting with the possibility that my kitchen may have looked like this back in 1953?

I know, I know, the Silestone is beautiful ... and whatever's underneath is surely ruined beyond repair from the new countertop existing (and being adhered too) the old one. I just can't help but wonder.

I'm thinking I should be conveniently out of town when the countertop guy comes a'callin'. I don't even want to know what I'm missing.