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Quartz VS. Quartzite Countertops: Make the Right Choice for Your Kitchen

Kitchens for Living

If you want variety (in price, pattern and color), consistency and no maintenance quartz is a perfect fit. It is completely natural, mined from quarries just like granite. If you are in South Florida and would like to find the perfect counter top for your own kitchen, I look forward to hearing from you.

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Natural Stone 101

Kitchens for Living

Colors are pretty much limited to greys, greens, blues and blacks with subtle lighter veining. Like with all natural stone, price is largely determined by how close you are to the source (quarry or port). It’s found in a variety of colors, known for its translucent quality and is frequently enhanced with back lighting.

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TISE 2024: Resilient flooring focuses on innovation

Floor Covering News

The woods and stones that inspire Karndean designs are sourced from around the world—forests and lumberyards to remote mountain quarries, some even exclusive to Karndean. Indeed, in SPC the company unveiled Laurel and Laurel Reserve with new color intros in both its Cyrus and Andover lines to suit changing demand. Why 9 inches?

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Kitchen and Residential Design: A Coverings preview

Kitchen and Residential Design

It comes in four colors and can be used outdoors. • Baldocer (Booth 1914) is bringing digital front-and-center to its porcelain collection, spotlighting its innovative methods for adding distinctive decorative touches, such as high and low reliefs, colorations, stone and wood lookalikes, and more.

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Kitchen and Residential Design: Let me vent a little about Houzz

Kitchen and Residential Design

Whats Uba Tuba in Florida is called Labrador in New York. Natural stone is a natural product and even stones that come from the same quarry change radically over time. The people who make wood stains use the colors and tones of natural wood as model when they formulate their stains. I have been in the business almost 30 years.

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