Here's ours. It's Anatolia Calacatta HD porcelain tile. The shower hasn't been done yet, but we're using a full mix of sizes:12x24, 2x2, subways, and bullnose for our shower and tub surround. I don't have much exposure to real calacatta, but I'm impressed in the detail and variation in some of these high-def porcelains now. It's really impossible to find any repeat/pattern and realize it's porcelain. Hopefully add shower pix in a few days. Here is a link that might be useful: Anatolia porcelain calacatta

Anyone who has put the Calacatta Vicenza, any regrets? I’m leaning towards that for my kitchen but I want my counter tops to be mostly white with just little specks of gray here and there. In some pictures I find Kitchens who have huge chunks of gray and very busy. Any opinions? I was also thinking about cashmere Carrara? Any help is appreciated

Recent Activity 6 hours ago bnom added 3 photos to Ideabook: Creekhouse Kitchen 2 Likes Comment Yesterday bnom added 4 photos to Ideabook: Creekhouse Kitchen 2 Likes Comment Yesterday bnom commented on your discussion: Quartz and White Granite...put to the stain test Like 13 Comments See 10 more comments Edit|Delete bnom barncatz thank you for that input. It's good to know. Do you know what sort of sealer they recommend? And yeh yeh, thanks so much for posting photos of the quartz slabs. I have to say that the slab, whether the issue is the photo or pc, looks kind of fakey (and I don't really get that from the small samples). But I keep reminding myself that laying flat with sink and cooktop etc will break up that expanse. My kitchen is small enough that I think I can do all countertops with one giant slab. I'm going to get bids on both the quartz and granite. I know the quartz will be more but if its thousands more it may not be worth it. Will report back. Like Bookmark Yesterday at 9:37AM lttlfzrchck I do prefer the Pental products. I also like Silestone. I haven't really found a Cambria quartz I liked very much. I haven't quite put my finger on it but I would describe the Statuario as clearly a quartz product evoking marble...rather than a too-shiny and too fake marble copy.

I just went to the MSI showroom to view slabs. The slabs of Arno I saw had dark gold veining only with a bright white background. No other colors or variation. It was pretty. I'm on the fence. Our contractor said to look for jumbo sizes only. I wasn't expecting that and now feel somewhat limited. Arno is pretty and comes in prefab and jumbo size. Check out Vadara Quartz. I prefer their quartz colors. I also went to their showroom and I think their quartz is gorgeous.