3 Reasons to Choose Soapstone Over Granite or Marble
Remodeling your kitchen or bathroom? Ever consider using soapstone as an alternative to marble or granite? Here at Bucks County Soapstone, we’re passionate about building custom designs for our customers. We also love explaining all the great advantages of choosing soapstone for their homes. Below, we discuss three reasons to go with soapstone for your next home remodeling project:
1. Super tactile. Once you touch soapstone, you’re going to fall in love with it! There’s just no other way to put it. The way our craftsmen finish the edges and all other surfaces is so tactile that you’re never going to want to stop touching and rubbing the stone. Installing soapstone in your bathroom or kitchen, in place of materials like marble or granite, will prove to be a brilliant idea!
Your friends, family and guests will all be amazed by the unique texture of your new kitchen countertop, bathroom sink or shower. You’ll be the first one on the block to install a “touch-friendly” design inside your home that looks and feels different than anything else!
2. Blends in perfectly. Soapstone doesn’t scream for attention with colors, patterns and sheen like marble or granite; instead, the design functions more as a contributor to the room, and less as the prime focus. This means you can switch up the interior design of your room without ever worrying about whether it matches the soapstone.
With marble or granite, on the other hand, you’ll always be locked into the color palette contained in the design you choose. Since our products have more of a natural, subtle appearance, they have less of an impact on the interior design of a home. Still, that isn’t to say that the functionality is any different.
3. Environmentally friendly. Because of the geological size and formation of soapstone deposits, this material is still quarried using a very rudimentary method. Wire, sand and water is used to remove blocks from the quarry, without any chemicals at all. What’s more, there’s very minimum, if any, deforestation that takes place, since the soapstone is extracted from a mountainous cerrado (savannah).
In fact, the material is removed almost 4,000km (aprox. 2,485 miles) away from the rainforest. Even further, the soapstone “boom,” which has been taking place over the last decade, has assisted local communities by lowering unemployment rates, increasing tax revenue and improving local services, including road building, sewer, water and electricity infrastructure.
Find out why soapstone is making such a huge comeback by checking out the beautiful showroom at Bucks County Soapstone this spring! We’re located at 515 West Walnut Street in Perkasie, PA 18944. You can also go to our website and check out our photo gallery, or call 215-310-0290 to speak with a member our staff today.
