Very pretty! Can’t really tell from the site…is this a manmade, printed limestone? Have you investigated its porosity and stainability?

I’m on Long Island, and I say…if it passes all the tests for staining, porousness, scratching and chipping…go for it!

How available is it, on LI? This may not be a concern, but how does it compare price-wise, with other typical countertop materials?

Keep in mind…there are many naysayers about real marble for countertops, and also soapstone. However, I am as passionate about my soapstone, as lovers of marble are about theirs. Get what moves your heart. It’s your kitchen.

It is marble, before the heat and pressure of the earth transforms it into marble. It is super soft, super porous, and super sensitive to acids etching it. It etches white on that creamy gray. It looks like nasty etched and stained concrete garage floor in no time.

It’s natural and not manmade. It doesn’t check all the boxes and I guess it isn’t good with acids. But I see that it’s used a lot in Northern Europe for counters so I wonder why it can’t be used here. Maybe it just needs more care than most people want to invest.!

It actually behaves like marble and is often called marble so IMO if you are aware of the issues like you would be with marble get what you love . It beat sthe heck out of fake plastic quartz . If it can withstand the use as flooring in huge commercial places it can stand up to kitchen use with a bit of care, like wipe up spills BTW is in not like usual limestone it is very hard.

Europeans are not freaked out by something showing it's age and use like Americans are.

Haha yea this is what I have suspected

You have to remember that most Americans build things to (1) look new and therefore because nothing does forever, (2) be disposable. You're living in a place where people buy luxury vinyl plank floors over hardwoods.

“You're living in a place where people buy luxury vinyl plank floors over hardwoods.”

If you’re referring to Long Island, know that LI has different sections…North Shore, South Shore, Eastern and Western (Nassau and Suffolk counties), with disparate incomes.

In my area of LI, no one is putting in LVP. Wood rules. I’m betting LVP is more the norm in Suffolk county, than in Nassau, and more in central LI and the South Shore, than on the North Shore.

The point is, painting all of LI with one broad stroke, is a mistake many outsiders make.