How to choose kitchen countertops?

Natural marble or Granite as kitchen countertops will be may your choice, both marble and granite as one natural material widely are found and quarried from our earth, they own the more gorgeous colors or distinctive veins that run through the entire slab. Marble and granite countertops as one traditional favorite can be modern for a classically styled kitchen space because their appearance is very high gloss.

However, Marble and granite kitchen countertops lack the durability and they need regular maintenance with mineral oil or beeswax frequently to prevent stains, this accumulated care cost will be one significant amount when the time gone. As we know, granite and marble are porous and their surface requires special sealants as kitchen countertops, otherwise liquids such as vinegar or fruits juice can easily penetrate into countertops and cause the permanent stains if you forget to do its regular maintenance or this wax-seal function just fades, and it is difficult for homeowners to remove these stains due to its porous performance if its surface was damaged in use. Another key point is that the natural Marble and granite have the harmful radiation for family’s health, now more and more people will be pleased to pay more money for the environment-friendly products.

And what is quartz stone slab countertops? Quartz stone is also one artificial marble that comprises the ratio of 93% natural quartz and 7% polymer resins, this the reason why artificial quartz stone slab are usually strong and harder like the natural granite or marble, it has great strength which makes it scratch resistant, this is its good advantages and but also its disadvantages, because quartz stone is too harder to get the more edge-shapes or backsplash options, while acrylic solid surface can easily supply the round bottom structure to backsplash and then to avoid the hygienic dead corner. By the way, quartz stone have another weakness that its speckles will have the yellow-flecking problem. In order to conveniently know more the difference and advantage & disadvantages of acrylic solid surface, quartz stone and marble & granite materials as kitchen countertops, we can get more information in following chart:

Sincerely hope that the above-mentioned information is useful for your decision on kitchen countertops, there are many good reasons why we should choose acrylic solid surface as kitchen countertops, such as the fact that acrylic solid surface is truly beautiful, durable, non-radioactive, also a non-porous, anti-stain, renewable and an extremely low-maintenance. With the increasing popularity of acrylic solid surface materials, many people have began to pay attention to this decorative materials in recent years, we advise you to purchase acrylic solid surface as your home application or commercial design because it have the same property of granite & marble kitchen countertops, but also have the superior advantages character that is absent for natural stone and quartz stone kitchen countertops.