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Four Alternatives to White Countertops

 “Anything but white or gray.”  There is an emerging group of fatigued designers and savvy consumers who want to move on from the ‘grays for days’ era in the modern home. Read this blog to learn about Four Alternatives to White Countertops! 

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Project Vandemic #vanlife basics from CaraGreen

Project Vandemic- #vanlife basics from CaraGreen

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Choosing Building Materials Wisely

Choosing Building Materials Wisely - Optimize your choices to create better. Read along here.

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6 Online Platforms Where Architects and Designers Are Getting Inspiration 

 It is here to stay: the material libraries, showrooms, trade shows, and product presentations that have all gone virtual now plan to stay that way in the future to some degree.  I mean who wants to wrestle into a jumpsuit or dress pants just to sit through a meeting when we had a year of yoga pants under our not needed belts? 

We have had a solid year plus to click, star, and bookmark our favorite sites. For architects and designers, who are very tactile people, inspiration online was not the easiest transition, but we’ve broken down the top 6 platforms many have turned to, to fill that tangible void.

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Supply Chain Issues in Building Materials Continue to Mount

Supply Chain Issues in Building Materials Continue to Mount

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The Top 5 Countertop Choices for Healthy Homeowners - an Industry Update on the Best Eco-Friendly Options

Hunting for a kitchen countertop that pairs perfectly with your lifestyle? Tired of the commodity quartz and generic granite countertops? Whether it's warming up your office space, retrofitting your bathrooms or designing your dream kitchen, we found five eco-friendly, non-toxic options for you. Healthy body, healthy mind, healthy home.

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What is Pyrolithic Stone?  GEOLUXE®  carves out new surfacing category with Geomimicry ™  Technology

Engineered stone is undergoing a revolution as new technology emerges to address the many limitations of quartz surfaces, mainly imparted upon them due to the resin that is used as a binder, but also the health implications of airborne crystalline silica.  New product categories are emerging, and one of those is GEOLUXE® Pyrolithic stone.

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Stop and Smell the Roasnbliatn - Natural Surfaces Fueling the Retail Revival

Retailers vow to keep a grip on their in-person clientele as our safety and pandemania has caused us to become increasingly dependent on online ordering.  The online experience is evolving to be immersive and so realistic, we almost feel like we ARE in the store. The store we remember anyway. Retailers need to rethink the in-store experience.  It must attract the senses that can not be accessed behind a screen.  Touch and feel, smell, in person visualization.

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Reviving Retail: Why Building Materials are Key to Getting Customers Back in your Store

2021 brings with it the opportunity to get back to life as we knew it.  Back to our families, back to our offices, back to shopping and dining at restaurants.  But these spaces, as we knew them, are not the same, and we are not the same.  We have established ourselves as fully capable of providing for ourselves remotely.  This reality will be a challenge for retailers and restaurants alike as they strive to draw their customers back post pandemic.  Building materials will prove to be a critical part of this “return of the customer,” and probably not in the ways that you think.

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Sintered Stone: The Ultimate Residential Kitchen Solution

What is it like to put Lapitec in your home? CaraGreen Southeast Territory Manager, Raina Harrell,  recently talked to a homeowner about her kitchen renovation and why she chose Lapitec countertops.

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