[linz06]

I did a little more research last night and it seems that soapstone has issues with water marks. The only way to get rid of the water marks is to oil the counter which gives it an all over darkness, but then if you spill anything that would absorb the oil, or have unfinished ceramic on it, or even anything with rubber feet on the counter (such as my food processor) would leave white-ish marks, and you'd have to re-oil again. It just seems to be a little more work than I was hoping for!

Quartz also seems like a pretty good option from what I looked at last night. There seems to be less maintenance.


I was also looking at the kitchen last night and I feel like butcher block, although I love it, would just be too much wood. Our kitchen is pretty large and the original wood floors are a huge feature, and there is also one original wood doorway on one side of the counters. The floor and doorway are a different color so I'm not sure which way I would go with the counters - try to match one or the other, or just go completely different again, and I think it would just look too woody for me!