Kurt

I still remember strutting into my grandmother’s kitchen, a skinny young man, just tall enough to see over the edge of her countertop.  With my eyes; I scan every inch of the horizon; scanning as if I were on some sort of covert operation.  Always in search of the prize every youngster longs for; a plate of freshly baked cookies.  Oh, how times have changed.  I’m much taller now and that definitely makes the job of spotting the cookies much easier.  Not to mention from my appearance one can tell; I spent a lot of time at grandma’s house. Apart from growing older, I’m not the only thing that has changed over time.   The world of countertop coverings has not only changed; but revolutionized! The old laminate countertops that most of us grew up eating off of are no more.  Well, only in the sense that recent technological advancements have taken grandma’s laminate countertops and made them three times more wear resistant.  According to Kim Rich from Wilsonart International they’ve been able to use technologies first developed in the laminate flooring industry and apply them to Wilsonart’s High Definition line of countertop offerings.  Not that you’ll be walking on your countertops anytime soon; the wear resitance of flooring built into a countertop covering is definitely a product feature worth mentioning. Day in and day out customers come into our place of business and say “SHOW ME THE GRANITE!” Perhaps it’s a logical decision or just human nature.  One could debate we have been eating off stone since the caveman era for the last 200,000 years.  Granite is available in a wide assortment of colors.   If you have never owned granite before; you should consider a [...]