I love Formica! It's retro and very forgiving....I'm so glad we were able to keep it in two areas of our kitchen.

We are going to be using granite around the sink on one side of the kitchen....and I'm not sure how that's going to work. But, it comes with the base cabinets and sink my SIL just removed from her kitchen and donated to our remodel. What a sweetie!

And it's "Cheap and Not Pink" so it fit right into my husband's design theme :)

Thank you. (Batteries seem to do this a lot these days.) Would formica countertop done as well as the solid surface? When you say engineered stone you are referring to cambria....corian types?

Plastic laminate tops have acquired the brand name Formica, like asking for a Kleenex when you want a facial tissue. Formica manufacturers plastic laminate (1/16" thick phenolic with a picture or color on the top) as well as solid surface (1/2" acrylic (Plexiglas) with Aluminum Tryhydrate filler) Corian, Staron, Avonite, and Livingstone are solid surfaces. Engineered stone (Cambria, Zodiaq, Silestone) are ground-up quarts crystals bonded together with polyester and technically fit the industry definition of solid surfaces. Most natural stone is given a resin treatment at the factory. Sintered tops (Dekton, Neolith) are like giant pieces of porcelain tile.

Note to self: keep battery acid off kitchen counters!

Note to nephew: include a battery case for your toys.

And Uncle Joe - if you played with it more often, you'd notice that the batteries were dead!