My quartz countertop is 20 years old. 2 kids, 9 dogs (the occasional dog paw on counter I'm sure) canning, wine spills, kids standing on it, you get the picture. Not a stain or a mark. My last house had corian, it was stained in the first 6 months.

Thank you Annette! What brand did you purchase?

Mine is Silestone. We were actually the first residential installation in Georgia when we put it in in 1997.

We had pure white caesarstone in our former kitchen. We did get one chip on the sink edge, but otherwise, had no staining or chipping. We currently have pure white corian on our island and in a bathroom that we did 2 years ago. Corian is theoretically a more dated option, unless you're doing a midcentury or contemporary kitchen, in which case it's a pretty contemporary option. Corian isn't stained at all in either room. We just use soft scrub with bleach whenever anything stains it.

I ADORE my white Corian countertops and re-used them when I did my kitchen last summer! No, in the US, Corian has pretty much given up on the residential market - it is used extensively in hospitals, restaurants etc due to its antibacterial qualities. It's popular in bathrooms in their marble-like pattern. It IS used in some very high end, very contemporary homes - always in white.

In the UK, it is used extensively in residences, again almost always in white. It's considered quite high end there.

You cannot go wrong with it as anything your children do to it can be fixed. For me, it's like a classic, great white shirt/blouse.

I love Corian too - my parents have had it for 20 years in off-white and it still looks great. The bloggers of Young House Love had white Corian in one of their kitchens, so while not trendy some people still think it's cool! :)

Thank you! It sounds like there is no perfect option but I'm leaning towards corian. Does anyone know if you can use bleach on the cream/offwhite colour corian or just on the bright white?

I'm going for a classic country look, and hoping it could work in a country kitchen, like this photo. We will have an apron sink and lacanche range.

My mom uses bleach on her creamy corian countertop to remove tough stains. 15 years old and no issues.

I used bleach on the PINK Corian sink I used to have and it looked fabulous. I mean, sure, it was still pink, but...you know. Test a small area first.