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Countertops: Your Essential Guide
Countertops: Your Essential Guide
Thinking about purchasing new countertops? You’re going to love the Surface BUZZ magazine Kitchen Countertop edition!
When you begin to consider which countertop material for your new kitchen, you will want to educate yourself on all your options before you make your selection. After all, you’re going to be living with them for a long time and there are so many wonderful choices to consider. Look to the special edition of Surface BUZZ magazine that is dedicated to kitchen countertops. In addition to the regular articles–Did You Know? Ask Our PROS, and the ever popular Kid’s Page (which in this edition includes a fun how-to video)–our PROS present incredibly useful information and tips in: Countertops 101: The Complete Guide to Kitchen Countertops.
In it, topics covered to help you in your decision process include…
How Do You Intend to Use Your Kitchen?
Although color, budget, and texture/finish are important considerations, your material selection ought to be based on how you intend to use your kitchen. An elegant, high-maintenance material might be a perfectly reasonable choice for a kitchen that gets very little use. Durable, low-maintenance materials are appropriate for kitchens where there is constant cooking, cleaning, entertaining, and eating. You might consider selecting more than one type of countertop material for designated purposes like baking or heavy meal prep.
Countertop Materials
There are so many so many choices for countertop surfaces today, from concrete and laminate to metal or natural stone. Some materials are easier to maintain than others. With proper care, most materials can last many years. The appearance of some materials can be renewed once use or damage have taken a toll, while other materials will have to be replaced.
And a Special Section Dedicated to Natural Stone…
Natural stone countertop choices include granite, marble, limestone, soapstone, slate, quartz surface (engineered stone), and quartzite. Some types of natural stone are more suitable than others for kitchen countertops, depending on a variety of factors.
Natural Stone Selection
If you are looking for tops that can hold up to serious use, there are a few simple tests you can do with stone samples:
Learn more about these tests and various types of natural stone in the full article, as well as how to work closely with your fabricator to select the most appropriate stone or other material for your kitchen countertops. Learn about slab selection, resined slabs, why fees go beyond square footage, what you should do before the slab is cut, and edge options that are available to you.
Caring for Your Stone
Some of the topics covered include…
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This article is one of a series of articles written and published on behalf of Surface Care PRO Partners.