by Stonhaus Design | 22/09/2026 | Materials
Choose a granite color in a fixed order. Start with what you cannot easily change, your cabinets and your floor, and use them to narrow the field to two or three slabs. Then let the room’s light and your tolerance for wiping pick the winner. Pattern comes last....
by Stonhaus Design | 25/08/2026 | Materials
Six of the eight stones on our materials page are listed as quartzites. So when clients compare porcelain with quartzite, they are usually weighing a manufactured slab against the kind of stone we show the most. The short answer: quartzite is natural rock, mostly...
by Stonhaus Design | 27/05/2026 | Materials
The stone is named after one of the most famous marble buildings in the world, yet it is not marble. UNESCO describes the Taj Mahal in Agra as a mausoleum of white marble; the countertop called Taj Mahal is a quartzite, a far harder stone that ignores the lemon juice...
by Stonhaus Design | 23/05/2026 | Materials
Quartzite is the harder stone: it is made almost entirely of quartz, while granite mixes quartz with softer feldspar. Granite is usually the more forgiving one about spills, because its industry standard allows less water absorption. So in granite vs quartzite,...
by Stonhaus Design | 17/05/2026 | Materials
A black countertop can make a kitchen feel sharper, quieter, and more tailored all at once. That is the pull of Absolute Black granite: a clean, saturated black appearance that works in modern spaces, classic homes, and custom projects where the surface needs to feel...
by Stonhaus Design | 01/05/2026 | Materials
“What is the best stone for kitchen islands when designing a high-traffic luxury kitchen?” That question, typed into Google word for word, is one of the searches that brings readers to this page. For a waterfall island, our answer is usually a quartzite...
