Stone notes
Notes from the shop on picking stone, caring for it, and what we have learned templating and installing kitchens across the Midlands. No sales pitch, just the truth as we know it.
Marble is showing up in more Pelion kitchens and baths, but it lives by different rules than granite or quartz. Here's what we tell folks who come to the Cayce shop asking about it.
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A plain look at quartzite for Pelion homeowners, what it is, what it costs to live with, and the questions we hear most from folks building or updating out that way.
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We hear a lot of the same granite myths from Gaston homeowners. Here's what's actually true about heat, scratches, sealing, and stains, straight from our shop in Cayce.
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Here's how a quartz countertop project actually goes, from picking a slab to living with it, for Gilbert homeowners weighing engineered quartz for a new build or remodel.
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We get a lot of marble questions from Gaston homeowners, and most of them come from myths. Here's what's actually true about marble in a working Midlands kitchen.
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Gaston homeowners ask us a lot of the same questions about quartzite. Here are the common myths we hear at our Cayce shop, and what's actually true.
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If you're building or updating a home in Gilbert, here's how granite countertops actually go from a slab in our yard to a finished kitchen, step by step.
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A plain look at how engineered quartz stacks up for Lugoff kitchens, from newer builds off Highway 1 to lake-area renovations, and honest guidance on who it suits best.
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Marble does etch, and that's not a defect, it's how the stone behaves. Whether that makes it wrong for your kitchen depends more on you than on the stone.
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