Here is Cambria Sussex:

Looks great , I love it.

Love your cabs/counter/backsplash, foreverremodel...do you have your whole kitchen posted anywhere? Very nice!

Thanks for the comments. As per my username, it has taken a long time to finish this tiny kitchen. I will posts pics soon and post at FKB.

That is a beautiful combination...everything.
Can't wait to see MORE!

forever, I have no idea what you're talking about ;)

(um, we *still* haven't put the molding on the top of the cabs in the kitchen that we did back in 2004...)

Drool!

Thank you Forever - great combination of cabinets and backsplash too. This is very inspiring, thanks. I'm leaning towards Cambria Sussex, DH is favoring Lagos Blue. They are both great so it's tough.

Is that a kind of slate backsplash?

tartanhabit:

Yes, the backsplash is small slate brick pattern AKDO - Desert Sand. The backsplash was the first item we picked out at the start of the whole process. We bought one 12x12 mesh backed section and toted that thing around until the slate was falling off! We decided that the cabinets and backsplash would be our focal point so we did not want a "busy" counter. We also liked lagos blue but the Sussex has a greenish tint that matched with the slate better. Pictures do not do justice to that slate backsplash... the variety of colors and texture is amazing.

I'm leaning towards the lagos blue; does anyone have it ?

tartan, who won ?

I know many companies that refuse to do Lagos Blue, especially in the honed finish. It is very soft and will scratch. It also shows fingerprints. It is not a maintenance free product. If you look at Ceasarstone.com NOT ceasarstoneus.com under spec's you will see it is half as abrasive resistant as the larger particulate material. Good Luck !

thanks for the heads up; I have a small sample and will try to batter it.
There are 3 colors quite similar to lagos blue, would that apply to those also?

what do you mean by "the larger particulate material" , do you mean the caesarstones that have specks in it ? as opposed to the more uniform looking caesarstones?

"Particulate material"

In a manner of speaking, engineered quartz (Caesartone or some other brand) Lagos Blue and others with the lower model/pattern numbers (1XXX) are made of 94-97% quartz DUST plus fillers. Highest numbered models (9XXX) are made of quartz CHUNKS plus fillers in similar proportion.

As I said, in a manner of speaking and not a scientific description.

Bumping this up just in case anyone new has installed Lagos blue since this thread died !!!

I am very interested in using Lagos Blue (which, for people who haven't seen it, isn't blue at all!). I have looked on the Caesarstone.com website and can find no technical specifications at all. On the CaesarstoneUS.com website I find technical specifications -- http://www.caesarstoneus.com/downloads/pdf/Technical%20Data%20Manual_FINE.pdf -- but nothing that's specific to one color or another.

The ONLY thing I can find about Lagos Blue being different is that (1) if you buy ANY of the Caesarstone in a honed finish, you must sign a certificate that you expect that "metal marks, fingerprints, and other signs of daily living" will be more obvious and require more cleaning and (2) Lagos Blue is the only color where, in addition, to the honed finish certificate, it also has footnoted: "Honed versions of these colors will require more maintenance."

With regard to its softness, Lagos Blue has a model number starting with "4" so it's apparently just as hard or soft as any number of other Caesarstone products which they claim to be harder than granite. MOHS hardness (scratch test) is in the range of 6.5 to 7.5, according to the US website.

But I cannot find any information that demonstrates that Lagos Blue is more prone to scratching. If it is, I would dearly love to know sooner than later!! If anybody has experience or more information please pass it on.

Here is a link that might be useful: Caesarstone US technical specifications document

Ha, funny how things come back around.

We are yet to install countertops but current top choice is actually the Caesarstone Concrete colour. I still really like Lagos Blue and Cambria Sussex but with our cabinet color, they bring out a lot of brown and we decided that's not the direction for us.

I'm hoping this will be an easier decision to pin down once we see our cabinets installed (we're about a month or so away from that, they arrive next week!). It's very hard doing everything with sample sizes!

I noticed a while ago that I could no longer find the mohs ratings on the international CS website (they were never on the US site). Now there is only one site..and no mohs ratings that I can find..

HoweverÂÂLB DID have a lower rating. Maybe they have changed something in the way it is produced. That said, best bet is to order a sample and try to ding it. MY LB was softer by far than the cheapie granite on some outdoor casual tablesÂ..the CS LB it dinged fairly easily...and as far as I know, can't be repaired easilyÂ..if at all.

Get a sample. Abuse it. You can then decide if it works for youÂ..or not.