If asked, in home decoration, which one most affects the level of appearance of the kitchen and our cooking experience? That's definitely the countertop choice. Nevertheless, the material of kitchen countertop has a lot of kinds of material, commonly used include marble, granite, quartz, sintered stone. They have different characteristics. Let's take a look today.

01 MARBLE

As the most beautiful building materials, marble is the elf of nature. Over eons of time, it comes in a wide variety of styles. With artistic surface, it should be protected carefully. With its high water absorption, in addition to the surface protection should also pay attention to keep dry and clean. Otherwise, it is easy to stain and affect the appearance.

02 GRANITE

As the most strong natural stone, granite has low water absorption, high brightness, dirt resistance and corrosion resistance. The appearance of granite is also quite beautiful, often presenting black, white, red, grey, yellow, blue, green and other colors, which are dotted with crystals. Granite is a very good countertops material. It is suitable for both luxury villa or home decoration. The disadvantage of granite is that the joints are not easy to handle.

03 QUARTZ

The quartz we usually called, is artificial quartz. As the most commonly used kitchen countertop material, it has the characteristic of big density, high hardness, low water absorption and the performance of preventing blow and bearing dirty. The color of quartz is rich, in theory, any color of quartz can be mixed out by all kinds of pigments. But from the view of physics, quart has fine thermal expansion and cold contraction. Cracking occurs when the material cannot withstand the internal stress caused by thermal expansion and cold contraction and is subjected to severe external impact.

04 SINTERED STONE

The new generation of artificial materials, sintered stone, has received a great response in the market. The sintered stone imitates the natural stone texture, and has the characteristics of abrasion resistance, acid and alkali resistance, low water absorption. But it lacks toughness, may shatter under gravity. Besides, it is not easy to cut and construct. The installation of juncture of L ambry countertop also has difficulty.