Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Granite Benchtop - Making the ultimate statement in kitchen design!

Kitchen is the heart of your home. Home owners desire granite Benchtops for supreme comfort, minimum maintenance and godly feeling of the natural stone. As observed, when a person from your friend or family enters the kitchen the first thing they notice is your beautiful and shining kitchen Benchtops. After its where majority of time is spent with families gathering, preparing tasty food and most of all entertaining life.

Granite Benchtops is preferred due to its high-price feature. It is perceived that despite presence similar in color, shape and size, some granite Benchtops are higher than others. Handling of natural stone is completed in various ways and stones which are crafted first are cheaper than those which come with more efforts. Then the price of the stone is dependent upon the amount of labor introduced in quarrying natural stone.

To save big amounts of money when renovating kitchens, you have the option of resurfacing your granite counter top. Instead of building a new granite bench top, you can simply remove the old counter top surface and have a brand new counter top. This option is considered to save you upto 70% in cost compared to getting a complete new granite benchtop.

Granite is preferred for its looks, maintained year after year with little efforts. Its usability is class apart. One can cut any amount of vegetables on the Benchtops and it will not show any mark. There is no problem in keeping containers with hot liquids on the stone as there will be no marks out of hot or cold surface. Besides, granite can be cleaned with a clean cloth regularly and the kitchen Benchtops will look as beautiful as installed on its first day.

Imitated granite is available in the market, but these are not successful as they begin to show wear and tear and show burn marks on them within no time. These are eventually replaced for their diminished looks, overtime. These Benchtops pose a problem for home owners who are deprived of looks and usability by installing imitated granite. Professionals are called time and again to sand and re-polish worktop, time and again.
Professional granite merchants have an expertise in assisting customers to buy the right material as per their budget and preferences. Customers are at ease to furnish granite kitchens with proper Benchtops, flooring and wall-cladding. Granite merchants are more than eager to advise customers with proper material, design and technical assistance.

Some people prefer marble over granite as they find marble more attractive. However, marble deteriorates after some time. In kitchens, it shows food-marks and in bathrooms, it shows water-marks, diminishing the effect of natural stone. Granite, on the contrary, shines as bright as during installation even after decades of installation. There is a large collection of granite Benchtops to choose from. Customers have the facility to avail first-hand designer services for granite for kitchen Benchtops. A designer works in close proximity of customer to maximize the functionality and cast a luxurious look to the place, within the prescribed budget.


Author Bio – This article has been written by James on behalf of IB Granite Benchtops Australia , pioneers in installing and supplying stone products to the building industry and private sector in Victoria. If you wish to makes the ultimate statement in kitchen design whether in the form of Benchtops, Vanity a kitchen island, or a piece of freestanding furniture; it can be the finishing touch of your kitchen‘s dream contact ibgranite.com.au