Tips and Advice : How to Choose Your Kitchen Countertops
When choosing kitchen countertops, consider carefully what you need and what you can afford. It's a good idea to choose the most functional material possible for your countertop. It needs to be...
- durable.
- easy to clean and maintain.
- stain-resistant to all liquids, even acids.
- heat-resistant to many different objects (pots, pans...).
- scratch-resistant, to avoid scratches while cutting ingredients on it.
- a suitable match for your tastes and kitchen design.
It's difficult to find material for kitchen countertops that possesses all these qualities, so a combination of different kinds of materials is perhaps the best option. It's interesting, practical and probably cheaper.
For example, you can use a quality material, such as granite, for places that receive the most frequent use (e.g., around the range or the sink), and you can cover the rest with cheaper material, such as laminate.
The materials below are popular choices for kitchen countertops. Some other, less traditional ones, such as lava stone, glass, paper-base, copper & zinc, are also used, but less often; perhaps they will become popular in the future.
Some of them require comparatively little care and maintenance. Others you might need to maintain regularly (e.g., resealing and/or polishing), according to the instructions of the manufacturer.
Price of kitchen countertops
The price of your countertops depends on the materials used and how difficult the work is:
- color, pattern, texture.
- shaping the edges.
- possibility of integration with the sink.
- installation...
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