Laminate Counter Pix

The laminate installer made an appearance today, bringing us much closer to our goal of a Feb. 1st move-in. One more week of push, push, push and hopefully, the Magnolia house will be ready to rent. Ad goes in the paper Monday.

Cabinets Before: Stained, glazed and polyurethaned but sadly, counter-deficit.

And after: Wilsonart laminate installed on counters and backsplash in a faux granite pattern that picks up the red/brown of the terracotta tile and the darker brown from the glaze. (That whooshing sound you hear is a heavy sigh of relief… nothing like picking out $400 worth of permanent material from a 1×2″ swatch…)

The mister had the laminate installed from the floor to the venthood  for ease of clean-up (vent also MIA, but to-be-installed soon).

A closer view taken without flash.

The back of the weenie chip with product details.

Going with a premium laminate added $25 to the total, but the result is very nice and definitely worth the appeal in this rental market. I’d still like to switch over to ceramic tile counters, but that will probably have to wait until I learn to do the work myownself.

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Tags: laminate counters, REI, rent house