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If you're interested in remodeling your kitchen or other areas of your home, most folks focus on appliances, cabinets, and flooring. While those are important aspects of any remodel, countertops are often overlooked. That's unfortunate because counters are among the most important features of your home. They're the focal point of your kitchen, after all.
Maybe that's why homeowners with well-designed, quality countertops tend to sell their homes for more money than those with basic counters. It stands to reason, then, that the counters in your kitchen and bathrooms aren't just good-looking and functional – they're an investment that can provide ROI.
Regardless of the type of home or kitchen you have, chances are there's a style and material that you'll love – from granite countertops in Whitman, MA to quartz and just about everything in between. What's better is that these countertops can be customized to suit your needs, providing the perfect blend of functionality and aesthetics for your family.
If you've been on the hunt for a quality countertop company in Southeast Massachusetts, look no further than Granite World, Inc.
Making Design Dreams Come True
At Granite World Inc., we take pride in our services and customer relationships, striving for continuous improvement and innovation in everything we do, from installation methods to fabrication equipment technology. Our team is trained to focus on the key details of each project we take part in, which has gained us an exceptional reputation in our community. In fact, every member of our staff was hand-selected to best serve our customers.
Although our team may seem small, our services are available widely across the entire Southeast region of Massachusetts, including Cape Cod and the Islands. We make it a point to offer raw materials from the top distributors around. Come visit our showroom and take a stroll through our stone yard in Harwich, Massachusetts, to see our beautiful inventory for yourself.
Our Process
Whether you're interested in learning more about granite countertops in Whitman, MA or you're ready to place an order ASAP, our easy and informational ordering process ensures your satisfaction. Here's how it works:
Have questions about our countertop installation process? We're here to help – contact our office in Harwich, and we'd be happy to give you a more detailed explanation. Now that you have the rundown on our process let's take a look at some of the most popular countertop material choices available at Granite World, Inc.
- Corner Radius
- Seaming
- Overhangs
- Other Special Designs
Granite Countertops in Whitman, MA: The Natural Choice for Durability and Versatility
Granite is one of the most popular natural stones in the market. As an igneous rock, the granite you're considering was once molten. It was formed as it cooled inside the earth. It is quarried from the mountains of Italy, the U.S., India, Brazil, China, and dozens of other countries around the world. Here at Granite World, we are passionate about this high-quality natural stone and recommend it for a variety of installation purposes, such as kitchen countertops, floors, and other surfaces that undergo heavy usage.
Minerals within the granite look like flecks and are what give it the classic "salt and pepper" look. Other types have veining similar to marble. Generally speaking, granite is a dense-grained, hard stone that can be highly polished or finished in a variety of ways depending on your family's needs. A broad spectrum of colors is available to match the color palette and feel of your home.
What Makes Granite Counters So Popular?
Granite is a highly durable and attractive option for kitchen countertops, floors, table tops, and exterior applications like cladding and curbing. It is available in a range of colors and has been rated as the best overall performer among kitchen countertop materials by a leading consumer magazine.
Unlike synthetic surfaces, granite is incredibly resistant to scratches and heat damage. It is also highly resistant to bacteria and does not get affected by substances like citric acid, coffee, tea, alcohol, or wine. Even with regular use, granite does not stain easily and is almost impossible to scratch. If you want to enhance your granite's resistance to staining, our team can provide you with more information about sealants available on the market.
Granite World Pro Tip
When it comes to granite countertops, high-end options often equate to unique patterns and enhanced durability. However, a higher price doesn't always guarantee better quality. At Granite World Inc., we provide raw materials from the top distributors available. Visit our showroom in Harwich, Massachusetts, and consult with one of our associates to find a granite that fits your needs and budget.
3 Timeless Ways to Complement Your Granite Countertops in Whitman, MA
If you are looking to add a touch of elegance to your kitchen, granite countertops can be a great option. With their intricate patterns and wide range of colors, they can transform a bland cooking space into a bright and merry room. However, since granite counters often steal the proverbial show, it can be tricky to design your kitchen around them.
Keep these easy design tips from the Granite World team in mind once you settle on the color and application of your granite counters:
1. Granite Countertop Decor
Keeping your kitchen looking tidy and organized requires avoiding cluttering your countertops with too many items and decorations. However, you can still enhance the look of your kitchen by adding a few carefully selected decorative items. If your granite countertops have specks of bright colors like green or purple, you can try using appliances, flowers, or decorations in those colors to make the specks in your countertops stand out. This will add a pop of color to your kitchen and elevate its overall appearance.
2. Cabinet Color
Brown, tan, and gray hues are all very popular color choices for granite kitchen countertops. As such, it's wise to choose a cabinet color that complements the natural tones of your countertops. That way, you can avoid creating an overwhelming look in your space. A warm white or a deep, moody color can be used to highlight the beauty of the countertops. If you prefer stained cabinets, pick a shade that matches the colors of your countertops.
3. Floor Pattern
Having a bold pattern on both your countertops and your floors can make your kitchen look cluttered and overwhelming. If you have granite kitchen countertops, it's a good idea to opt for a simple floor design. Choosing a plain tile or wood floor is usually a safe and practical choice.
Quartz Countertops: Elegant Design and Easy Maintenance
Quartz is a type of igneous rock that is made up of oxygen and silicon atoms in a continuous structure of silicon-oxygen tetrahedra (SiO4). It is one of the most abundant minerals on the planet and has been used in the production of kitchen and bathroom countertops for many years. Much like granite countertops in Whitman, MA quartz is an excellent option as it is highly durable and requires minimal maintenance.
Why Do Homeowners in Massachusetts Love Quartz Kitchen Counters?
When it comes to stone choices for your kitchen countertops, quartz ranks among the best choices available. But why? Let's find out.
Beauty
Quartz countertops have become increasingly popular in kitchens, and for good reason. They are designed to imitate the everlasting beauty of natural stone, providing a wide range of captivating colors and patterns. Whether you prefer the sophistication of marble or the simplicity of solid colors, quartz offers endless options to match your preferences. With professional installation services from Granite World Inc., quartz kitchen countertops can effortlessly enhance the visual appeal of any room.
Durability
As a homeowner, you're probably aware of how quickly kitchen countertops can get worn out. Luckily, quartz is a material that can withstand the daily rigors of wear and tear – even if you have kids. That's because quartz is a unique blend of natural quartz crystals, resins, and pigments, making it a highly durable surface. With quartz countertops, you don't have to worry endlessly about scratches or stains ruining the beauty of your kitchen. It is a highly resistant material, making it an ideal choice for busy kitchens and bathrooms that see a lot of activity. In fact, its scratch, stain, and heat-resistant properties make it perfect for everyday use.
Easy Maintenance
It can be frustrating to spend your weekends cleaning and maintaining your countertops. However, by choosing quartz countertops, you can eliminate one task from your to-do list. Quartz surfaces are non-absorbent, meaning that liquids won't seep in, and bacteria won't be able to breed. If there are spills, cleaning them up is as easy as wiping the surface down with a mild detergent and water. There's no need to spend hours scrubbing, buffing, or polishing. As an added bonus, you won't have to worry about sealing your countertops regularly, as you would with granite or marble.
Granite World Pro Tip: Is quartz tough? Yes. Is it indestructible? Unfortunately, it is not. Quartz is a surface that can be damaged permanently by exposure to strong chemicals and solvents that can weaken its physical properties. You should avoid using products that contain trichloroethane or methylene chloride, such as paint removers or strippers. Also, stay away from any highly aggressive cleaning agents like oven or grill cleaners that have high alkaline and PH levels.
Your First Choice for Custom Granite Countertops in Whitman, MA
At Granite World, we take pride in offering top-quality stone countertops to customers throughout Massachusetts. Our team provides sales, fabrication, and installation services, ensuring that your project is completed with the utmost precision and care. After we're done, you'll enjoy spending more time cooking in your kitchen or getting ready in your bathroom.
Contact our office today or swing by our showroom to find the best type of stone for your needs. Our staff will take as much time as necessary to educate you about your options and explain our efficient installation process. Before you know it, your new countertops will be installed, and your neighbors will start fawning over your new renovations. We look forward to seeing you soon!
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Latest News in Whitman, MA
Peaceful Meadows has a new owner. See who it is and what's planned.
David R. Smithhttps://www.patriotledger.com/story/news/2023/08/29/hornstra-peaceful-meadows-whitman-ma-ice-cream-plymouth-auction-hogg/70697438007/
WHITMAN − Peaceful Meadows will continue as an ice cream stand and dairy shop under new owner John Hornstra, of Hornstra Farms in Norwell.Hornstra made the highest bid at ...
WHITMAN − Peaceful Meadows will continue as an ice cream stand and dairy shop under new owner John Hornstra, of Hornstra Farms in Norwell.
Hornstra made the highest bid at $1.75 million during a much-anticipated auction held on-site Tuesday, Aug. 29. The property includes the ice cream stand, a dairy processing building, a retail store and offices, 55 acres of farmland and a four-bedroom 19th-century farmhouse on Bedford Street/Route 18. A 10% fee for the auction company brings the total sale price to $1.925 million.
A two-family home and a single-family home across the street were also auctioned off. They were purchased by a single buyer for $808,500, which includes the 10% fee.
Combined, the total sale price for all four lots comes to $2.77 million.
What was sold on Bedford Street/Route 18
The two lots on the Peaceful Meadows side had a combined assessed value of just under $1 million going into the auction, according to Whitman's property assessment website. The two homes at 67 and 81 Bedford St. facing Peaceful Meadows are assessed at about $850,000 total.
JJManning Auctioneers oversaw the auction, which drew about 15 to 20 potential buyers. About twice as many people were there as spectators.
Justin Manning, head of the auction house, expected the combined sale for all four parcels to bring in between $2.5 million and $3 million. The final combined selling price of about $2.77 million, including the fees, landed right between the two estimates.
The sale marks the end of the 60-year-old Peaceful Meadows business, which until last Friday also included the company's Plymouth location at Village Landing near the waterfront. Despite initial assurances by the auction house that the location would remain open, it closed Aug. 25 after serving the last of its remaining inventory.
More:Peaceful Meadows in Whitman is closing. Here's what we know.
As the bid went from $1.7 million to $1.75 million, Hornstra said he was briefly on the fence until he saw his son, who will be the fifth generation to oversee the business, roll his eyes at him. The final amount was close to his dad's last bid.
"I ended up spending a little more than I thought I would, but I didn't want to disappoint everyone on the South Shore" by letting the property potentially convert to commercial use, he said. "I just couldn't bear that thought."
Here's the history of Peaceful Meadows
A Peaceful Meadows shop in Middleboro opened in 1977 and the Plymouth shop four years later. The Middleboro shop closed in 2022.
After the auction, family members who had gathered on the farmhouse porch to watch the sales were greeted with congratulations, hugs and a few tears from friends of the family and longtime customers.
The family members, area residents and customers applauded as the winning bid was announced. Many had hoped Hornstra would win so the farm could be preserved and its equipment modernized to continue offering homemade ice cream that would be even homier if cows are brought back to the property after a decades-long absence, as Hornstra said he would like to see.
More:Ahead of Peaceful Meadows auction, an interested buyer speaks up. See who it is
In the shorter term, Hornstra said he hopes to have at least the dairy store up and running by November to fulfill the Thanksgiving and Christmas demand for eggnog.
Peaceful Meadows ice cream stand, farm sold at auction for $1.75 million
Russ Reedhttps://www.wcvb.com/article/peaceful-meadows-auction-sale-hornstra-farms-buyer/44942988
WHITMAN, Mass. —The owner of a Massachusetts dairy farm will now acquire a century-old farm that ran a popular ice cream stand on its property for six decades.John Hornstra, of Hornstra Farms in Norwell, made the winning bid of $1.75 million for Peaceful Meadows in Whitman during an auction late Tuesday morning.JJManning Auctioneers first auctioned off a four-acre property that includes the Peaceful Meadows ice cream stand, ba...
WHITMAN, Mass. —
The owner of a Massachusetts dairy farm will now acquire a century-old farm that ran a popular ice cream stand on its property for six decades.
John Hornstra, of Hornstra Farms in Norwell, made the winning bid of $1.75 million for Peaceful Meadows in Whitman during an auction late Tuesday morning.
JJManning Auctioneers first auctioned off a four-acre property that includes the Peaceful Meadows ice cream stand, barns, a dairy-processing building and a farmhouse $800,000. A lot that included 55 acres of farmland was then auctioned off for $600,000.
Justin Manning, president of JJManning Auctioneers, then told the crowd that had gathered for the auction — including 21 registered bidders — that the two properties would be auctioned off together as long as someone made a bid higher than $1.4 million.
The Peaceful Meadows farm along Route 18 was first founded by the Hogg family in 1920, but the ice cream stand was not established until 42 years later.
The owners of Peaceful Meadows, however, recently decided to sell the family business. When JJManning announced that it would be auctioning off Peaceful Meadows in early July, it drew a strong reaction from the public.
Before the auction began, Justin Manning said that his family's firm has run more than 16,000 auctions since 1976 and that the Peaceful Meadows auction was the most buzzworthy.
Manning also noted that the family was not putting the Peaceful Meadows name or their ice cream recipes up for auction. He did state, however, that if someone still wanted to run the business under the Peaceful Meadows name, the family behind it was interested in that idea.
Russ Reed/WCVB
A sign for Peaceful Meadows Ice Cream along Route 18 in Whitman, Massachusetts, which was auctioned off on Aug. 29, 2023.
Hornstra told The Patriot Ledger, a WCVB media partner, that he is hoping to bring dairy cows back onto the Peaceful Meadows property for the first time in decades. He also expressed hopes in having the dairy store up and running by November to offer eggnog in time for the holidays.
To many, Hornstra's winning bid provides hope that the six-decade legacy of the family-run business will be preserved.
Peaceful Meadows had opened an ice cream shop along Route 28 in Middleborough in 1977. That shop, which was not far from the intersection of Route 105, closed in 2022.
A Peaceful Meadows Ice Cream stand was opened in Plymouth in 1981. The Plymouth location, at Village Landing off Water Street, was not included in the auction and there were early indications that it would stay open following Tuesday's auction. But The Patriot Ledger reported that the Plymouth ice cream shop closed on Friday, Aug. 25, after serving the last of its remaining inventory.
The family also auctioned off the two houses it owns across the street from Peaceful Meadows, a two-family home and a single-family home that is currently occupied by a tenant. Those properties sold for a combined bid of just over $700,000, according to The Patriot Ledger.
Watch previous Chronicle feature on Hornstra Farms:
Demand for home deliveries increased for Hornstra Farm due to the pandemic
Peaceful Meadows of Whitman, MA Sells for Over $2.7MM
KRON4https://www.kron4.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/653301454/peaceful-meadows-of-whitman-ma-sells-for-over-2-7mm
JJManning Auctioneers is pleased to announce the $2,733,500 total sale at an August 29th auction of property on behalf of “Peaceful Meadows”WHITMAN, MA, US, September 1, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- JJManning Auctioneers is pleased to announce the $2,733,500 total sale at an August 29th auction of property on behalf of “Peaceful Meadows”, a 2nd generation family-own...
JJManning Auctioneers is pleased to announce the $2,733,500 total sale at an August 29th auction of property on behalf of “Peaceful Meadows”
WHITMAN, MA, US, September 1, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- JJManning Auctioneers is pleased to announce the $2,733,500 total sale at an August 29th auction of property on behalf of “Peaceful Meadows”, a 2nd generation family-owned/operated ice cream business on Route 18 in Whitman. After many successful decades in business since 1962, the family chose to divest of these landmark assets owned since the 1920’s.
21 bidders attended, each with $25,000-$200,000 in certified deposits in hand. The auction was comprised of 4 parcels (2 on each side of Bedford Street) with the existing retail/manufacturing complex including stand, store, home/office, barns, and production facilities in operation through the 2023 summer season.
The 4+/- acre operating complex and adjacent 55+/- acres of agricultural land sold in the entirety for $1.925MM to Hornstra Farms of Hingham & Norwell, MA - a 5th generation family owned and operated dairy business since 1915 offering milk, ice cream, and other products through their store, seasonal Ice Cream Dairy Bar, and delivery. John Hornstra previously met with representatives from the Town of Whitman to express the firm’s interest in continuing the property’s Chapter 61A designation and having a working dairy farm at the Whitman location which is viewed as a positive outcome for the Town.
A single-family home on 1+/- acre and a 2-family home on 5+/- acres on the opposite side of Bedford Street sold in the entirety for $808,500 to a separate undisclosed buyer.
JJManning Auctioneers has an unparalleled history of successful sales of unique and legacy properties. The firm is also accepting consignments of commercial, industrial, residential, and land properties for Fall and Winter auctions.
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