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I was looking into upgrading my kitchen with Corian or granite countertops, but the prices
are more amazing than the countertops. What is the best alternative to granite countertops?
If you are willing to have a mosaic countertop, with fitted seams or pieces held together
with grout and glue, you could have a granite countertop.
Why do you recommend that?
The cost of a granite countertop is proportional to the size of granite. If you can use recycled
or broken granite pieces to make your counters, the price of the project goes down.
That sounds like recycling, which I didn’t think you could do with stone like granite
or marble.
If you go to a second hand materials store or builders surplus, you may find a literally
recycled granite countertop. It takes some hunting, but you could get a new or hardly
used granite countertop for half the price of a new one.
That fits my budget, but it might not fit my kitchen. I don’t want to end up with
five different counter tops that look like they were cobbled together.
You could get concrete countertops made.
Oh, heck no. While my kitchen feels like Grand Central Station, I don’t want it to look
like a highway.
Concrete countertops, especially after they have been sealed, look like granite. Concrete
is much cheaper than granite, and it is more easily customized to fit odd shapes or nooks
than paying a stone mason to work with granite.
I’ve heard of recycled plastic and glass mixed together with a binder to make faux
granite countertops. But I want to get a material with a known life span before I put it in
my kitchen.
The nice thing about granite countertops is –
Their look? Their durability?
The fact that everyone wants to imitate it, giving you a lot of affordable alternatives.