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10 Kitchen Remodeling Mistakes to Avoid for a Flawless Makeover - Granite and Marble Express

February 17, 2025

Image by canva An exciting project is remodeling your kitchen, which can dramatically change a home's beauty and functionality. Even the most seasoned homeowners can have some missteps when undertaking this remodel. Whether it's redone countertops, beautiful granite, or marble, updating cabinetry, or even changing the layout entirely, planning and avoiding common mistakes is critical. Here are 10 common kitchen renovation mistakes to avoid for a well-functioning kitchen renovation. 1. Failure to Avoid the Work Triangle One of the critical kitchen work triangle design concepts maximizes cooking efficiency and cleaning between the sink, stove, and refrigerator. Many homeowners unknowingly fall into a trap; they...

Choosing the Perfect Countertops: Your Style and Budget Cheat Sheet

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Countertops

January 7, 2025

Image by canva Choosing the perfect countertops for your kitchen or bathroom is an exciting yet important decision. Countertops are more than just functional surfaces; they define the look and feel of your space while meeting the practical demands of everyday life. With so many materials, styles, and features available, finding the right option can feel overwhelming. Whether planning a complete remodel or upgrading your countertops, this guide will help you navigate your choices and find a solution that fits your style and budget. From modern to classic designs, there's a perfect countertop waiting to elevate your kitchen or bathroom into...

Choosing Your Granite Countertops is an Adventure!

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Countertops

July 1, 2021

Granite comes from volcanic rock. Previously, you’d find it only in 5-star hotels and palaces. Today, it’s a popular choice for kitchens everywhere. WHY GRANITE? With granite, each countertop is inherently unique – so yours will not be exactly the one Joneses installed last week, even though it may be very, very similar. That also means you may want to visit our showroom to see the actual piece you’re buying. Granite is quarried all around the world, producing a great array of available colors. Granite is the second hardest material after diamonds. That means that if your kitchen knife and your granite counter top...

Interior, Residential

Nature brings much more than a million years of volcanic rock

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Countertops

July 1, 2021

Nature has been working hard for the past 10 million years or so, and have been surprising us and giving us beautiful unimaginable stone designs from underneath the earth's crust. Explore your unique taste with natural stone. Granite is one of the seven wonders of stone in my opinion – six of the others that I will be discussing in the future on this blog – and its brilliant for solving som eof the most intricate surface problems that you can imagine, specifically within home; surface problems such as kitchen countertops, bar tops, laundry rooms, dining tables, shelves, and believe it...

Interior, Residential

Granite Countertops Masterpiece

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Countertops

July 1, 2021

What do you see when you look closely at your granite countertops sitting on top of your cabinets in your kitchen? Probably nothing significant at first glance, but its there. What you might ask? what's in my granite tops? Let me see if I can take you for a ride within natures masterpiece. Because I work on this industry, I happen to be sitting at my desk and starring at my granite. Yes, I have a granite countertop desk, and it happens to be Uba Tuba. It’s nothing fancy but I can tell you that it makes everything on my desk...

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The Importance of Planning a Good Kitchen Design

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Countertops

July 1, 2021

Your kitchen is the most utilized room in your house, and therefore also the most important one. Central to most family interaction and consumption, the design of your kitchen should reflect your unique lifestyle. So whether you are planning your new kitchen, or redesigning/remodeling an old one, your kitchen’s design is important not only to you and your family, it is also important to possible future users, such as growing children, aging parents or the next homeowner. There are many ways to approach the design of your kitchen for any of these purposes, but first and foremost, you should take...

Interior, Residential

Cambria Quartz Countertops

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Countertops

July 1, 2021

Cambria Quartz Countertops are HOT! Not sure how else to start this article. If you are tired of your old formica, corian, or even granite countertops, then you really need to look at this man-made option of engineered stone material - and best of all? its manufactured in the United States of America, that's right, our own unique product conceived and made in the most beautiful country in the world!...

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Eco-friendly Countertops For the Future

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Countertops

July 1, 2021

More and more people are increasingly becoming eco-conscious. This is a good thing since we’re responsible for providing a clean and safe environment for generations to come. Our children’s children would want to breathe fresh air instead of using a mask to prevent inhalation of toxic air. We’d also want them to enjoy camping trips in the woods and swim in lakes instead of being stuck indoors, right? Therefore, we have to take small steps in changing our environment. We can start out simple: by recycling and switching our things to something more eco-friendly. At Granite Kitchen Countertops, we give you...

Interior, Residential

Preserving Granite Countertops

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Countertops

July 1, 2021

Switching to granite countertops is a decision one will never regret. It’s one of the best investments that will not just increase the value of your home, but the overall kitchen experience. But just like any investment for your home, proper maintenance and early prevention is key to making your countertop looking like it’s brand-new....

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