General rule is to not have anything all in the same tone because those kitchens look off. If your cabinets are staying white then I’d go for a darker tone with more grey in it otherwise it’ll look too whitewashed and vice versus. What color are your cabinets and flooring? Several of my colleagues have built their houses from scratch and that sounds like a nightmare. Any suggestions on counterops would be highly welcome? Should we just do what everyone else is doing or are there benefits to other forms of edging? Other recommendations? But there’s a huge wealth of different edging options. But home depot only seems to have 2 cm and 4 cm? I’m not really sure that’s true though… How should we decide on thickness? Edging?Īlmost all the kitchen countertops we’ve seen online have either sharp rectangular corners or softer “eased” rectangular corners. The internet thinks I should be choosing between 2 cm with 3 cm edging or just straight up 3cm. What should I be thinking about as we decide on a countertop design? How are we going to decide among all of these different kinds? How thick? The prices in the first picture are mostly the “non-sale” prices because apparently there’s some kind of sale going on, but it isn’t an easy to explain one, so I don’t actually know how much they cost or even their prices compared to each other. I found a fantastic discussion on a houzz forum with pictures talking about quartz alternatives for marble. Also, WTF, aren’t women making most of these design decisions? Supermodels are not doing it for me.) (I am also really irritated with a half-dressed Cindy Crawford sitting on a kitchen counter on their first page and if you accidentally click it, you see a guy WEARING SHOES standing on top of another counter. The Silestone page is a nightmare to navigate. When you click on a stone, it shows you a slab and pictures of completed counters. Viatera has a great webpage with lots of pictures of their different options. Are the busy ones too busy? The sparse ones too sparse? One problem that I have is that I cannot extrapolate those small samples to an entire counter. (I guess there’s also statuary marble, but I haven’t seen any quartz knock-offs for that– probably some of what I think is Calacatta is actually imitating statuary, but without any additional color.) I like Carerra style marble instead– that’s the one with the shorter lines. Calacatta marble is the one with the fat long marbling– it reminds me of bathrooms more than kitchens, and the quartz example counter at Home Depot looked like formica to me (though oddly, there was a great looking formica knockoff– if only you couldn’t see the seams). White Arabesque is busier than Snow Ibiza and so on.Īlso there’s two different types of marble that the quartz is trying to imitate. The main difference between the different kinds of marble-ish quartz seems to be density and darkness of the grey lines. Here’s the pictures we took at Home Depot and then the one on the right is the two Viatera samples we picked up (they didn’t have any other samples - that third picture shows minuet, a quarter, then rococo, and they’re on top of our current terrible countertop). One is Silestone and the other is Viatera. Home Depot has two companies that make quartz. So… we want to have countertops made out of quartz (or granite) that look like marble.
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