Countertops for kitchen with honey maple cabinets: Tuscan Brown?

[Anonymous]

What do you think of this countertop for a kitchen with Shaker-style honey maple cabinets?



Other slab examples are here:
http://www.ewmarble.com/stones/marble/tuscan-brown/

The website says it's marble but the guy at the stone place said it's mostly granite, with some quartzite and a little marble. Another website says technically it's a marble but it behaves like a quartzite (so no etching problems). I'm trying to tread the line between grays and browns with the look of the kitchen.

Does anyone have this countertop in their house and if so, how are you liking it and how does it hold up so far?

[Anonymous]

I like it

[Anonymous]

Do white cabinets, always

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do white cabinets, always

I love how my white cabinets look but not sure I’d do them again. They show every single scratch.

[Anonymous]

Lovely!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do white cabinets, always

Thanks, but for a couple of reasons we are sticking with what’s in now. Someone on the other thread gave me hope that some day they may come back into style.

[Anonymous]

Do a gel stain over the honey maple. The counters otherwise would just be lipstick on a pig

[Anonymous]

I like it a lot and think it will look great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do white cabinets, always

Oh my god shut up

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do white cabinets, always

Oh my god shut up

+1

[Anonymous]

Gorgeous, OP. Kudos for not having another white kitchen!

[Anonymous]

There is so much misinformation about this quartzite. It is quartzite btw. It's in the same family as Fantasy Brown and others with similar names.

For people who are unfamiliar, quartzite is not quartz.

It DOES etch. Marble etches can be repaired. From what I was told quartzite etches can't be repaired. It is porous like marble and will crack and chip more easily than granite. I installed it in my master bath and had some etching in the 4 years we had it. I would never put it in my kitchen but see lots of people doing that when I look online.

[Anonymous]

Stores misidentify it as granite all the time. It is very pretty though.

[Anonymous]

Is it even possible to be what the guy at the store said - granite, quartzite AND marble?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it even possible to be what the guy at the store said - granite, quartzite AND marble?

Yes, the darker the stone - more granite. The whiter - marble. Somewhere in the middle - quartzite. The OP's picture is close to granite, so it won't etch. It looks like fantasy brown, exactly what I have, still in pristine condition four years later.