Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Something's Cooking in the Kitchen and It Ain't Granite




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The kitchen above is in an $800K new construction house. The builder is right in sync with what today's buyer prefers. Current shoppers prefer a white kitchen with quartz or marble countertops.

Remember all of the grumbling over wallpaper for selling?  Now granite is taking the hit. Pinterest is flooded with design boards featuring all white kitchens.  Busy granite countertops are passe for selling.

As a comparison with the bright, clean look of the marble countertops, let's look at the following kitchens.  These kitchens are in owner occupied $800K homes for sale in my area.  How would you feel about inheriting someones granite countertops versus white quartz or marble?
(Pictures from Triangle Multiple Listing Service.)





7 comments:

  1. Oh dear, we just put in granite last year. BUT it's almost solid black against the off white painted cabinets, so it's not a busy look. I do love a white kitchen!!

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  2. No worries, Heather. I'm sure your black granite looks stunning against your white cabinets. It's the busy patterns that buyers are objecting to. Hey! You aren't selling so go with whatever floats your boat!

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  3. Main reason we "upgraded" to Corian for our new home. Granite was standard!!
    xo
    Patty

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    1. Hey Patty! Thanks for weighing in! We installed Corian years ago when granite was the popular choice. It still looks beautiful and I'm so glad I went with a 'boring' solid.

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  4. The town I live in has a ton of late 90s/early 2000s kitchens with dark reddish cherry wood, beige walls, and really busy pinkish granite. (Its a planned community being built out a few neighborhoods at a time, and you can tell which decade any house was built in, and there are hundreds of identical homes with identical ugly kitchens. The 1980s kitchens are tile counters with pinkish washed oak.) I can't decide which is worse, getting a 1975 house with the original kitchen, or the early 2000s kitchen. I guess I would feel less bad about ripping out the 1975 kitchen from a waste perspective.

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    1. Oh Lisa, that pinkish washed oak is the worst! It seems like builders used it not only for cabinets but trim as well. Every style can typically be traced back to an era. In the next decade, white kitchens with subway tile backsplashes will probably be slammed with being so 2016! Thanks for your comment Lisa.

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