Best price you've found for Caesarstone?

[Anonymous]

I've been quoted prices from $70-80 per sq. ft. for Buttermilk and Desert Limestone Caesarstone, but it seems like these fabricators mark up prices expecting you to haggle. I don't want to negotiate with every fabricator in the DC Metro to get the best price. How much have others paid for Caesarstone and from where? TIA!

[Anonymous]

Do they have Caesarstone at Home Depot or Lowes?

[Anonymous]

Run away now get to quartz or granite

[Anonymous]

Ikea carries it for the same price as everywhere else. But if you buy it during their (long, twice-yearly) sale, you can get 10-20 percent off, depending on how much you spend.

We just got CS Raven for our kitchen from Ikea and I am in love.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Run away now get to quartz or granite

Caesarstone is quartz. What are you talking about?

[Anonymous]

Soapstone. It's a totally natural stone.

[Anonymous]

OP here. I'm not interested in granite or soapstone. I've already picked out the counters I want, but I've been quoted pretty different prices for Caesarstone (which, as the PP said, is quartz) from only two different vendors. One dropped his price by $10/s.f. during the course of a ten minute conversation. This led me to believe that there's a lot of room for price differences, but maybe I'm wrong about that.

For the PP who bought from IKEA, do you know what time of year the sales are?

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately, Ikea's sale just wrapped up on April 28. I think the next one will be in fall.

Be forewarned: They charge by the slab, or rectangle, rather than by the actual SF. I have a lot of funky corners and a long strip of 12-inch cabinets and was charged a lot more than the actual SF. It makes sense, because they can't really use that extra quartz. But I ended up spending 3,000 for a little less than 40 SF. And that was with the sale price.

[Anonymous]

I'm gonna resurrect this thread because I'm in the same boat. Interested in Caesarstone 'Pebble'. They do have it at IKEA for, I think, around $75/sq ft. I called Counter Intelligence and they only carry Silestone and Cambria in stock, so a special order would cost more.

I also like a couple of the LG Hausys Viatera colors at Home Depot/Lowes, and they're all right around the same price.

Anyone know who the direct fabricators are in this area, who will sell directly to homeowners?

[Anonymous]

I'm the Ikea poster from above and I can tell you that our fabricators were Norwood Granite and Marble in MD. I'm not sure if they do any non-Ikea residential jobs anymore but it's worth a call.