Kitchen counters can now come in a variety of materials: Granite, engineered stone, solid surface, ceramic tile, laminates, wood (or butcher block), stainless steel, soapstone, marble, or concrete.
Kitchen and Bath Design News wrote an article about the trend for the kitchen being a more versatile place, including ideas about the kitchen island also being a workspace (has that not always been what a kitchen table has functioned as?), and when covering materials, they say simply that Quartz is the future.
Maybe I'm just dreamy, but I think we can do better than Quartz as our future countertop material!
After common aesthetic choices, most modern counter top materials are chosen for their ability to sustain a clean working environment in the kitchen. Innovation in a kitchen counter material would have to meet these needs, but could confront the lack of interaction between a user and the material once it has been laid down.
Could future counter tops tell someone when its been contaminated with bacteria?
Could they have variable surface tension like water, and cave for objects placed on/in them while maintaining hard for things dropped or chopped there?
What if one of these counter tops could have an option of being pushed down into a second sink (beside the permanent one) and then pulled/popped back up again for counter space with a simple unassuming drain...?
Could counters click in and out of place, making for a weekend remodel instead of a season one? Could they have sections in them that could be flipped for variety or entertaining?
Could counters contain digital components that let you read the news while you're washing the spaghetti, and could draw out exactly what size the rolled out pie top should look like?
The kitchen counter is as old as civilization, but hasn't changed much.... I'd like to see where it could go.
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