Counter top advice Please ?
Please give me your input on which counters would look good. Island is cherry , cabinets are cloud white and the floors are solid white oak hardwood . The kitchen isn't done yet and the range hood will be curved and also cloud white. Hardware, knobs and pulls will be brass.
So far I have thought of Silstone eternal statuario . I am open to other ideas however I am not a fan or spider looking lines in quartz. I was hoping to have a solid backsplash in the quartz .
Thanks
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4 years agoI think your kitchen is beautiful.
I went with Hanstone Kindred because my cabinets are dark and the white/grey veining quartz was too cold looking.
Here in an in progress picture. Still trying to figure out what color to paint the walls.
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4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoHow about Cambria Brittanica and Quartzmater Statuario Classic. See pic below.
It has grey/blue veining with some espresso to tie in your island?? I took a close up so you can see the veining. Another one would be LG Viatera. Rococo
http://www.lgviaterausa.com/products/289/188
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4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoI'm in the final stages of completing my kitchen (still have to pick a tile splash and do some trim molding on the doorway, coffee bar area) and chose Calacatta marble (zero care. It's factory applied in italy) for the island.
and that zero care really does work. it's amazing. nothing stains or etches. Antolini is the maker.
Or, look around for some others you may like.Have you seen what they're doing w/porcelain slabs now? I honestly thought this was real stone
they have dozens and dozens of styles.
Bianco Avion Marble
or, if you find the right Taj, one w/more grays, it could work
Sea Pearl is another quartzite that holds up very well
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One of the marble slabs we have been looking at and above is the Quartz Silstone Eternal Statuario slab.b c
4 years agoYes I have been to the stone yards. My difficulty is that our foyer is porcelain tile marble look 24 by 24 tile and the foyer opens on to the kitchen. Therefore I feel that the countertops and backsplash should coordinate with the foyer tile . ( Note foyer staircase not quite completed)
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