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More decisions: Kitchen flooring & countertops

26 April 2007 by damonnoisette
Filed under Our House

Countertops

We got a decent quote back for CaesarStone countertops yesterday. CaesarStone is similar to the Silestone and Zodiaq quartz countertops.

About the price of granite, but I think CaesarStone is a much better product for a few reasons:

And it looks nice.

This is the color we’ll probably go with, “Blizzard.” It’s kind of a white with gray quartz in it…

Flooring

It’s decided — we’re going with cork for our kitchen. The combination of eco-friendliness, natural resistance to water and bugs, and softness (for the back & knees) makes it the best choice we think.

We’ve been trying to come up with a way to get cork in the bathroom, but we keep reading that it’s not recommended. Darn.

We’re definitely doing it in the kitchen though. We found a few options in a floating floor snap-together form (awesome & easy!). Now we have to decide whether we go light floor or dark to go with our medium brown cabinets (example shown here)

What do you think works the best with the cabinets?

Our current choice:

Other options:

Research links:

http://www.apccork.com/gallery.html
http://www.hardwoodinstaller.com/hardwoodinstaller/cork.htm
http://www.hardwoodinstaller.com/hardwoodinstaller/apc-cork-review.htm
http://www.ifloor.com/item_184446/cork-flooring/apc-cork/prefinished-planks/athene-grey.html
http://www.ifloor.com/powersearch.pl?N=9+4294961679+4294964013

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