Marble and quartz stone are both common decorative materials for vanity top, kitchen countertop, or sill. Marble is natural stone, quartz stone is artificial stone, both have their pros and cons. But marble is usually much more expensive than quartz. Quartz stone is the best choice for the house owners who’s more concerned about cost-performance.

But today, it’s a truth that quartz stone is more trending as a interior decorative material. It has the advantage of high hardness, hihg-temprature reisistance, stain resistance and no permeation. While for marble, the natural stone, it’s phisical features are not so good as quartz, but it’s more beautiful and unique on veining, soit still has it’s position in the market

Cleaner

Quartz stone is widely used on kitchen countertop, so the most important feature is stain resistance. Oils from our daily meals will leave on the countertop and hard to clean as time goes by, bacteria will follow then. Compare with marble, quartz stone has much better performance on stain resistance. Marble as a natural stone, has some natural gaps on it’s surface, allow the stain materials permeat into the countertop, causing big trouble for cleaning.

Quartz stone is a non-porous surface with nearly none water absorbtion and oil permeation. The oild or other stain on quartz stone countertop can be easily removed by simple wiping, instead of permeating into.

Harder

Hardness is another important point we should consider when choosing kicthen countertop. The whole countertop will get crack when compact happens, if the harness is not good. Once this happens, to repair seems to be mission impossible. Compared with marble, quartz has the moh’s hardness of 7, much stronger and harder than marble, not easy to get crack.

Hardness of marble is much lower, if the heavy pans or coffee cup fall down on the marble countertop ,marble is easy to get crack or smash. And using knives on countertop will leave obvious mark that is not removable. Quartz is more durable and strong, the high hardness will set you free when you enjoy cooking.

Athetic

From esthetics view, the natural marble is more beatiful, more natural, of course. But as long as the technique revolution ,quartz can also immitate the veining of natural stone, quartz sis on the way of becoming more and more beautiful.

The whole marble slab will give you natural and beautiful performance, while back to the real decoration, there will be limitation of your house size. The marble will be fabricated, and cut to size, the gaps will be there, ruin the integrity of esthetics.

After all, you have some recognization about the difference of quartz and marble. Comprehensively, obviously quartz stone is a better choice than marble. A better phisical features, lower price, and close esthetics performance, make quartz a most trending decorative material.