18 Options for Kitchen Countertop Materials

 Choosing a material for your kitchen countertop hinges on many factors: aesthetics, kitchen function, maintenance, and of course, cost. A well-chosen countertop makes your kitchen more useful and easier to maintain, and it can also serve as an important design element.

Most homeowners gravitate to quartz, solid surface, laminate, ceramic tile, granite slab, or concrete countertop materials. For a unique material, look to countertop materials such as bamboo, zinc, stainless steel, reclaimed wood, marble, recycled glass, slate, soapstone, and even paper.Quartz countertops are synthetic countertop materials made popular by brands such as Dupont and Cambria. This material is composed of pulverized waste rock plus resins for hardness and binding. Thus, quartz countertops are not solid slabs of quartz mineral but instead are an engineered stone product. Many quartz counters have antibacterial agents added. Quartz is rapidly overcoming solid-surface material as a convincing alternative to natural stone for countertops. Prized for their high resale value and abundance of colors and styles, quartz countertops are more durable and less susceptible to scratching than solid surface countertops.

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