We had Caesarstone Buttermilk, then Pental Botticino--long story and can't really recommend either company, but I love the look. Cambria has several colors that would have worked too, but it was $1000 more. We have the same restriction where everything else in the house is warm. You can't go white or gray, but the greige color does work. I just picked up the Cambria magazine and they have an article on gray neutrals. The decorator picked BM Bar Harbor Beige as his favorite beigey-gray with warm undertones. You could get a chip of that. Your travertine looks much golder than my tile, and I would be afraid of the gold dominating. I think that chipped edge might be a little too Tuscan. Have you looked at porcelain tile? There's so many to chose from and it's bullet-proof.

We selected Cambria Burton Brown and have been very happy with the decision. We do not have any evidence of the "resin pooling" mentioned by old1880home. It's pretty much worry free - and cleans up beautifully. Interestingly enough, the Burton Brown is not the color we were drawn to when we first looked at samples. As we progressed with other decisions on cabinets, we decided that the Burton Brown pulled in the reddish-brown tones of our cherry cabinets with the black enamel painted cabinets of the island. From Finished Kitc...

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

I’m sorry to add onto a thread with more complaints, but we are in a horrible bind with our Cambria slab order and as a result have been displaced from our home and our entire kitchen remodel delayed over a month. We’ve had to incur all costs of housing and a rental car (we are out of town), and there is still no resolution in sight. We ordered two of the Britannica Warm slabs which were due to be installed prior to Thanksgiving. They arrived and were so far apart in color that our fabricator rejected them because they’ll both be used in our kitchen. No slabs were available so new ones had to be produced with a new arrival date of 12/11 (install 12/18)...now a full month delay and we have no sinks in our house since all countertops are being replaced so we couldn’t return home. Second set of slabs arrived and SAME problem AGAIN. fabricator returned slabs and told us that Cambria’s response was “you shouldn’t order this if you require two slabs in a kitchen.” Which our developer says is crazy because our kitchen isn’t even that big! Keep in mind we are now out thousands of dollars without any compensation. Cambria is supposedly sending some new slabs now from Minnesota...but no promises and the install date is now post Christmas (12/28). We now are potentially having to pay $700 to get plywood counters and temp sinks installed just so we can get back home and kids can be home for Christmas. But then we will have to leave AGAIN for them to do the install if and only if these next slabs work. And we can’t be in the house with the workers over multiple days because my husband is a high risk patient. And since all work has been delayed due to countertops (ie plumbing, tile backsplash, etc), we are looking at an additional time we have to find (and pay for) another home. I know these are first world problems but it’s unacceptable for Cambria to not take accountability and just say “you shouldn’t order two slabs.” Even our installers are over it and asking us to consider changing countertops away from Cambria, but we spent so much time finding what we wanted and now we've gone through so much trouble we really want the vision we had and not settle. We didn’t pay for this remodel to settle. Please help. What are our options? Our fabricator is saying Cambria is just throwing up their hands. And now 20 more days before new slabs! appreciate any thoughts on how we can truly get a resolution with the product we want as well as be fairly treated regarding the costs we have incurred. Thanks so much.