Close your eyes and imagine: the sunlight is on your face, the smell of a ribeye steak sizzling on the grill in from of you, perhaps your children or friends are splashing and laughing in the pool within earshot. Drink in hand, you’re enjoying every moment of your outdoor kitchen/grill area and making memories that…
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Technology allows us more choices than ever before in almost every aspect of the design process whether renovating, remodeling, or building a new home from the ground up. An exciting new option for natural stone countertops has emerged and is gaining in popularity as it becomes more accessible to natural stone distributers. The same way your wall paint is available in a variety of finishes, natural stone slabs can be polished, honed, or textured to your preference, giving you myriad options with one color. We will explore the different textures available for natural stone slabs and the techniques used to obtain them.
FANTASY BROWN – “What IS this stuff?” If you’ve visited any reputable slab yard of late chances are you’ve seen the beautiful Fantasy Brown. As gorgeous as she is popular, Fantasy Brown is the head cheerleader of the natural stone world. It’s being used with increasing frequency because of its unique ability to pull both warm…
Over the past decade, manufactured quartz countertops having increasingly gained in popularity in both commercial and residential applications. This is primarily due to the wide variety available and how easy quartz countertops are to maintain compared to their natural stone counterparts. Quartz slabs are manufactured through a process that combines natural quartz ground to the…
The quartz vs granite debate rages on. The debate is fueled by no shortage of pros and cons. However, the quartz vs granite debate is usually subdued. In general, news commentators find little interest in the topic. Auditorium marquees seldom highlight the opposing views. Consequently, verbal dueling back and forth on the subject is rare.…
Quartz countertops are very popular. We will look at a very common comparison. Quartz countertops vs granite countertops. Do quartz countertops have advantages over granite countertops? Yes, they do. Do granite countertops have advantages over quartz countertops? Absolutely! Quartz Countertops vs Granite Countertops Granite countertops are made from granite. Granite is a natural stone. It…
Quartz is a facinating component of granite. Its scientifice name is silicon dioxide (SiO2). A chemical compound containing two parts oxygen and one part silicon. Quartz is one of the most well-known minerals and abundant minerals on earth. It also has more variations than any other mineral. Quartz is a building block of a vast…
A metamorphic rock formed by the alteration of sandstone due to heat, pressure and chemical activity. The layers found within quartzite materials are very hard.Due to the incredibly high abrasion resistance of quartzite it can be difficult to quarry and fabricate. This affects availability, fabrication lead times and cost. Some quartzites have high absorption ratings…
Quartz is the second most abundant mineral in the Earth‘s continental crust, after feldspar. It is made up of a continuous framework of SiO silicon–oxygentetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall formula SiO2. There are many different varieties of quartz, several of which are semi-precious gemstones. Especially in Europe and…