On Friday, April 20, 2018 at 11:10:13 AM UTC-7, Tom Gardner wrote:

....until I saw the granite slab they wanted to
use, it's breathtaking.

So, it'll make a great backsplash, visible over the laminate work surface.

I've made the dark stone table mistake once, and my solution: cover it with books,
if you can't see the surface you don't need to clean it again.