We have a similar quartz in our showroom, as well as the employee's kitchen. No one has regretted their choice with it and all I hear is how people like it for the same reasons you do. A lot of quartz has long veins or colors that are almost distracting. Here's an example kitchen on our site, different name but practically the same style as Calacatta Vicenza.

Quartz Example

As for cleaning the quartz, we use warm water, soap, and just a sponge or rag.

If anything ends up sticking to the quartz, don't be afraid to be rough with it.

Quartz is very durable and strong.

The order of durability for countertops would be Marble, Granite, Quartz, Quartzite.

I would just recommend against using the countertop as a cutting board because it will dull the knife and mark the quartz. (You probably already knew this but a lot of people were never told this and make this mistake).

Hope this helps!

Have a good day :)

Thank you i really appreciate it & thats beautiful! thanks!

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KitchenSearch.com Do you guys go with honed(matte) or polished calcatta vicenza?

Really, why is that?

just to quote many many other forums on this site

"I've read from numerous sources that honed quartz requires 'more daily maintenance' than polished quartz. If you are OCD and won't be able to sleep if there is a streak in your countertop, then no, I would not recommend honed finished quartz to you."

" It has a chalky residue and it is very smeared. I tried soap and water and it did not help. It marks extremely easily"

i REALLY appreciate your input, thank you