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Granite and Natural Stone Countertops

Granite, marble and other natural stone, where the slab you approve is the slab you get — no two are identical.

Granite and other natural stone move through fabrication differently than engineered material because no two slabs are truly alike. Veining, mineral deposits and color shift across a slab, and sometimes across a single kitchen's worth of slabs cut from the same block. Seeing and approving the actual slab before it is cut is the only way to know what is going into your kitchen — a sample chip tells you the general character, not the specific piece.

Most natural stone benefits from periodic sealing to keep it resisting stains the way it did when it was installed, unlike quartz, which does not need it. That is a maintenance habit worth building in, not a defect in the material. In exchange, natural stone tolerates heat better than quartz does, and carries a depth and pattern variation that engineered material cannot fully replicate.

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