A friend of mine has Corian counters in a large kitchen, because they were the up-and-coming thing when the house was built in the 1980s. (I remember seeing them in a very grand kitchen in a designer show house around the same time.) After all this time, they are pristine, but I suspect that all of the owners were careful -- which one should be with any counter material, because everything is vulnerable to damage by something.

She believes that, when she wants to sell the house, they will have to be replaced, because no one buying such a large, expensive house would want them now. But in reality, either the entire kitchen will have to be replaced, because tastes have changed and the cabinetry is out of style, or nothing should be done because the likely buyer would gut it even if it were all brand new. FWIW, there is also a Subzero refrigerator that is original to the house and still works.

I've chosen solid surfacing for a bathroom, but I'm undecided about using it in the kitchen. Quartz-resin is the obvious alternative; in my area it costs more, but this may not be true everywhere. Others in this forum would say never to use anything but natural stone, which isn't in my plans at all.

My daughter in law had white corian counters for years; it then developed a big visable crack and she used her house insurance payout to partial pay for a new granite countertop.

Solid surface remains an excellent choice for sanitary seamless repairable countertops.

@Dina have you found a substantial price difference between solid surface and quartz? We have to finalize countertops too. We haven't even looked at Corian because our designer and contractor hate it. But we have our own reasons for thinking it's great. If it's cheaper, that could be a deciding factor.

Love Corian, the fact that you can also do intergrated sinks is a huge plus for me. Just put it in a new kitchen and 2 bathrooms in a waterfront home we’re renovating.

@mcarroll16

I'll post an update about price as soon as I find out. My kitchen designer said granite is generally more affordable than quartz now due to supply and demand challenges. I've asked her to look into prices for solid surface. I didn't see any granite I liked.

I have always really liked corian in light solid colors - whote, cream etc. Looks timeless for a more modern or contemporary kitchen. Compared with patterned counters, that are often a dating factor (think brown granites of the tuscan era and white/grey veining of the current era). Separately, my parents did an all white semi traditional kitchen in 1989 and used white corian. They updated the hardware, appliances and backsplash when they sold 30 years later, and the kitchen ”sold” the house. High end suburb, fwiw. This goes back to the point I often make on this forum, which is that if you’re specifically asking about resale choices, buyers only care where things look updated and/or neutral, even if the quality of materials is what this forum thinks of as low end (think lvp).

We strongly considered solid surface with a Karran sink — there are lots of nice patterns — but the price was actually more than the quartz quote we got. I also got several samples of solid surface to test how easy it was to get turmeric stains out—I eventually got it out, but it took more scrubbing and cleaning product than the quartz and laminate samples we had.

@Dina thanks!

In case anyone is interested, I decided to go with grade 2 granite. I found one I love and it's less expensive than any of the quartz that I liked