Very often we have clients asking if they should install the countertop first or reface the cabinet first.

My answer is always countertop first.  In fact, a better answer would be countertop demolition first.

Many countertop edging (especially tile bullnose), cover certain portion of the cabinet.  When the carpenters reface the cabinet, they can only reface what they can see.  In other word, they cannot reface the portion of the cabinet that the countertop edging covers.

As a result, when the tile countertop was eventually torn, the raw edge exposed.  There are still tricks to cover the old marks, such as installing a wood trim.  However, it would not be the best way to showcase your spanking new granite, marble, quartz, or in this case onyx countertop.


The lesson learn is to always reface without the old countertop.  If you can only afford one project at a time, change the countertop first.

We recently installed a showroom display at our local Dal-Tile.  We received some compliments on the piece, and people start asking what's the name of that specific edge profile.

I don't know if there is an actual name for this edge, but we'll call it Ogee Eased Offset, or better yet, Amazing Stone Edge.

Fashion trend comes and goes, so does building material trend.

People switch from natural stone to porcelain tile several years back due to variation issue. Now everyone jumping back on the natural stone tiles saying porcelain tiles are too uniform.

In my opinion, as long as you get what you want, who is to judge if it's trendy or not.

Here is some of our new natural stone tile display. They maybe natural, but they comes in porcelain tile sizes.

After some searching, we finally found a high quality vendor who can provide subway tiles our clients would like.

After three weeks of hard work, our new site is finally up.

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