A couple of weeks ago a client came into our Bensenville showroom with a folder of kitchen photos. Every one of them featured a black countertop, and she had one question: “I love this, but everyone tells me it’s a nightmare to keep clean.”...

Last month, a client walked into our Bensenville showroom and asked a question we hear regularly: “Isn’t granite kind of outdated?” Ten minutes later, she was standing in front of a leathered Bahamas slab, asking whether we had enough material for her kitchen island....

There’s a moment that happens in our Bensenville showroom about once a day. Someone walks in convinced they want marble, we walk them past the quartzite racks, and they stop. It looks like marble. The veining moves the same way, the depth is the...

Countertops are one of the biggest line items in any kitchen project, so the question is fair: how long will they actually last? The short answer is encouraging — stone countertops are among the longest-lived things in your entire house. Installed well and treated...

Every week, someone walks into our Chicago showroom and asks for “a quartz countertop” while pointing at a quartzite slab — or the other way around. Nobody’s embarrassed, because the confusion is completely understandable: the names are nearly identical, both contain quartz mineral, and...