Hi! I am re molding my kitchen and having a tough time deciding on counter tops. i am looking for assistance . Does anyone have pics of calacatta gold by silestone. the slab views i see look so different then the sample in the store. do you know if they really have orange/ brown veining?

I can’t speak to the MSI stone, but we have the calacatta gold and really like it. It is very white and the veining is more subtle than the other fake marble quartzes we saw. It was expensive, but since we used it for our backsplash and counter we decided to splurge.

How do you use your kitchen? And who uses your kitchen? Do you have small children? or maybe elderly parents living with you? Are you a messy cook or a tidy reheat take out kind of cook? Are you the kind of party entertainer that cleans right after the party catching the spilled red wine or do you wait until the morning? Do you use lots of olive oil, red wine and mustard? When we had kids I would have loved quartz in our home. My kids used our kitchen as their lab for experiments or a place to make messy pizza or sprinkled cupcakes. We were a messy active family that spilled things. You might not see the spilled food coloring immediately. We chose a dark granite in a graphite color. It was wonderful and worked for us. Fast forward to our home today. We have chosen a white delicate marble with adult kids who only come into town for the holidays. It is perfect for us and we love it. I looked into white granites but there are many that have issues that crop up later. Now that I say that Quartz has had a few complaints too. Here are some links... White Ice Granite Stained Cambria Quartz Stain Reviews on Emerstone quartz? Durability, staining, chipping, etc? New quartz counters staining Quartz and White Granite...put to the stain test

Does anyone have any pictures of backsplashes installed or ideas they are considering using with Silestone Calcatta Gold? Pictures would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!