Pros of corian vs quartz include better seams, ability to use integrated sinks, and easier repair.

They're both nice. No reason to talk you out of it if you like it better. :P

I was a little concerned about breaking dishes and glasses on quartz but I did a little reading about that and it sounds unlikely.

I have a variation of the white ceasarstone from Ikea. I have the Blizzard. I love it. It is very clean looking. The fabricators that Ikea contracts with in my area were really top notch did a great job with the seams and the edges.

Caesarstone is stainable, Corian is not. Coved backsplashes are cost-efficively possible in Corian, not in Caesarstone. Heat damage in Caesarstone can be catastrophic, not in Corian.

With white caesarstone, would I need to wipe up, say, coffee or strawberry smears immediately?

I was a little concerned about breaking dishes and glasses on quartz but I did a little reading about that and it sounds unlikely.

I've had Caesarstone for 5 years. Last week I had my first broken dish. A coffee mug slipped out of my hand as I was putting it into an upper cabinet and it smashed. Caesarstone is hard, like granite. If you drop something breakable from a sufficient height, plan on it breaking, not bouncing.

I have light Quartz in the kitchen (picked by us) and white Quartz on the vanity in the kids' bath(already came with the vanity which we bought second hand) . Kitchen Quartz is by Quatrztforms, bath Quartz-I've no idea. While kitchen Quartz is not all that (our GC was really pushing us into Quartz and how indestructible it is)and I do baby it to some extent especially it being so light and showing every crumb-it's not only me in the kitchen, and the spills are quite easily wiped off the next day after I find them lol.

Bathroom Quartz-already has a stain from a brass soap dish( I guess) that doesn't go away, and a water ring from something that also doesn't go away.

Well I'm there less, and I was under impression all Quartzes are so so indestructible I didn't catch the damage on time. And now it seems like it's there to stay.

(I decided it's Quartz since it's a bright white very hard surface with little sparkles..hard to imagine it being anything else but Quartz))

So I guess a lot will depend on how this or that Quartz is made.

Pre-teens rarely permanently damage Corian.

"Pre-teens rarely permanently damage Corian."

Challenge accepted!

Kathyrn P, I know this is an old thread but would you be willing to post photos of your clamshell counter? It's one of the colors I'm considering and I'm having a hard time choosing. It looks like it has a pink tint in certain lighting, but I'm wondering if that goes away when there's a lot more of it than a sample square.