With these countertops from Charles Luck Stone Center, your honored guests feel almost privileged to sit at the counter, as does your family on a daily basis. And suddenly, your kitchen counter has been transformed into that most marvelous of things, an item that helps bring us together.

Designers are now beginning to work with Corian, using it to make benches and tables, but it is still one of the better countertop materials around. It’s the kind of product that I don’t think can go ever go out of style, because it always has the properties we liked about it in the first place.

Vetrazzo Recycled Glass Surfaces is a company that has taken one of the more ubiquitous items of trash in this world, namely, glass, and put it to a new and different use. And done so with a considerable amount of flair and grace.

I recently came across Concrete Detail, a New England-based company that specializes in countertops. What I find myself liking about their designs is the simplicity