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skeezics wrote:

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thanks for the heads up. we have been looking at silestone but SWMBO
cant decide on a color. think african mahogany nateral clear finish
and white appliances. suggestions?

My normal suggestions include the pitfalls of the darker colours, the
'hard-to-keep-clean' of the very light, solid colours....and above
all...stay away from the really trendy colours. Too much colour forces
one into having to decorate around it for the next umpteen years.

Any of these countertops are a lot of money, so appreciate what your
wife is doing. But to get locked in to Hunter Green, for example, will
be asking for disappointment down the road. It will show fingerprints,
like all the dark ones, and what other colours go with Hunter Green?

There are plenty of natural colours available, in the earth tones and
greys/platinums.

Then there is the colour "Festival", which looks like somebody threw up
Smarties into a bucket of curdled milk.