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alternative to brava Marfil? help!

last year

We are redoing our kitchen but with the idea that we will be selling in the near future. This is a fairly simple home and we don’t want to outbuild the rest of the house with this redo. Brava marfil is the perfect color quartz to go with the off-white cabinets, but it’s $1800 more than we’d like to spend. Does anyone have a lower-end alternative to this color? The rest of the house is warmer so I’m trying to avoid anything too grey or cool.

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Paul F.
last year
It's called flipping.
freedomplace1
last year
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I would not do quartz. I would do granite. Less money and more intrinsic value. If not granite, I would do wood/butcher block. If not granite or wood - I’d do Formica/laminate. I would not waste money on quartz - especially for a flip.

But how far along are you on these renovations? Are these ”off-white” cabinets already in place?

If you are selling soon, you may be better off selling the house as is. I can just about guarantee you that the next owner will tear out what you are doing - especially because wood for cabinetry is very much back en vogue now, the white cabinets are way beyond overdone at this point - and quartz is right now about 10 minutes shy of its 15 minutes of fame.

Please post a picture of the current kitchen.
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JAN MOYER
last year
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Absolute Black granite, honed or Jet mist granite.

What is "near future" ? Two years? One? Four?

Put the black on there, because the more it mimics soap stone, the better. Show the kitchen and show the rest of the rooms around it - please.

Are these new cabinets? Or you are painting cabinets.?
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Skippack Tile & Stone
last year
You have no way of knowing if another selection will yield the price you want. Your best bet is to check with the fabricator and go from there; then you can make a decision.
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
last year
I would need to see the space but IMO fake plastic stone is never a good choice for kitchen counters . Get a real stone there are 100s to choose from . BTW off white tells us nothing we need pics and post them here in a comment do not start another post.

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