Advantage Of Quartz Countertops For Your Kitchen

By: Aemuthu

Buying a new home is not something that everyone could afford. Of course it is an undeniable fact that everyone has a dream house and if you are married, you tend to share your ideas with your spouse and make a combined dream house meant for your family as a whole. Dream house is not just about the space and comforts that your child may inherit after your life. It is not about the value of the property too in the market at certain period of time though people do tend to sell their homes at one point of time and opt for newer modular homes. In general you can treat it as an asset but dream house in general means more than the word.

Dream house is also about the decorating and defining each and every partitions of your home. In general you have the master bedroom, few other bedrooms depending upon its total space, bathrooms, kitchen, living hall, garden etc. In general the rooms can be decorated in a certain manner and classified as kid’s bedroom, study room, devotional room, music and leisure room, library etc. Every woman invariably desires for the perfect kitchen. It is considered as her field and she has every right to design the kitchen as per her wishes and countertops form the heart of the kitchen.

There are several kinds of countertops available in different shapes, styles, sinks, materials and colors in the market. The benefits of natural stone such as quartz countertops over manufactured countertops such as corian, formica etc are quite outstanding. The quartz countertops serves better than granite countertops as well.

It is a combination of the best qualities of laminate counters and natural stone surfaces. Quartz countertops are quite new in the market and used only over the past few years. Ever since they were used in remodeling kitchens they have gained popularity and granite industries have started to face severe competition. Granite has lost its aura and it has to been taken into notification that granite has been the choice for interior decorators and architects for decades when it came to kitchens.

Quartz countertops contain 95% of crushed quartz and 5% of polymers. This factor of infusing materials has led to scratch proof and almost maintenance free. It has also given birth to the variety of quartz countertops with different colors that range from monolithic black to translucent white to sandy browns.

Color choices attracts customers more than the traditional ones and with the choices for kitchen floors and cabinets increasing, it is necessary for every designer to match the color of the countertop with the rest of the kitchen.

Benefits:

1. It is the most durable countertop
2. Quartz tiles or slabs can be easily installed on walls
3. Variety of designer colors
4. Customized edges
5. They need not be sealed like the granite countertop
6. Easy install of under mount sink
7. Direct installation of faucets
8. Heat resistance and thus hot pans and pots can be placed on the top
9. Adds value to your kitchen and home
10. Resistant to bacteria and thus has longer life time.