Countertops & stonework in Mantoloking, NJ
Countertops in Mantoloking, NJ
Granite, quartz, marble and quartzite countertops for Mantoloking's rebuilt oceanfront estates and bayfront homes, from our Pleasantville showroom.
Or visit our Pleasantville showroom, open Monday to Saturday.
Mantoloking, NJ
Stone for a Mantoloking house, rebuilt right
Mantoloking countertops go into some of the largest kitchens on the Jersey Shore. The borough was laid out in the 1880s as a summer colony, with Shingle style houses on Ocean Avenue and Barnegat Lane designed by the best architects of the day, and it stayed that way, a few hundred year round residents and a few thousand in summer, until Sandy in 2012 damaged nine houses in ten and took more than fifty of them down. The rebuilding since has been the whole story: raised houses on the ocean side with the kitchen a flight up and a view over the dune, bayfront homes on Bay Avenue with a dock and an island facing Barnegat Bay, and the survivors from the old colony restored inside while the shingle face stays. A Mantoloking kitchen is a long island, a full height slab backsplash, a bar for the deck and stone in five or six baths, planned together so the house reads as one design. The Mantoloking Yacht Club and the bridge to Brick are the landmarks.
We work with Mantoloking homeowners and with the architects, builders and designers doing the rebuilds and the restorations. A new house means several slabs chosen together so the kitchen, bar and baths match; a restored Shingle style house means a honed stone and a simple edge that suit rooms from the 1890s. We keep an owner who is elsewhere most of the year updated, and our countertop fabrication and installation page walks through what happens between choosing a slab and the finished counter.
Granite, quartz, marble and quartzite
Which stone for a Mantoloking kitchen
Granite countertops in Mantoloking
Granite in Mantoloking goes on the kitchen that hosts a full house all summer. It is quarried stone, very hard, and a long island that seats ten for dinner every night needs that. The quieter granites, a soft grey or a honed black with little movement, suit the understated look the rebuilt houses are designed around, and a honed finish takes the shine down further. Granite is porous, so it gets resealed about once a season, when water stops beading on it. On a very long island we lay the slabs out so the seam reads as part of the pattern.
Quartz countertops in Mantoloking
Quartz suits the Mantoloking kitchen that has to look the same at the end of August as it did in June. Engineered stone is non-porous and never sealed, so wine and sunscreen wipe up clean, and the color is uniform across a long perimeter run, the bar and the guest baths. The long slabs matter here, because an oceanfront run can be fifteen feet, and quartz often covers it in one piece. A trivet lives by the range.
Marble countertops in Mantoloking
Marble is the stone a lot of Mantoloking houses are designed around, and it suits a restored Shingle style house best of all: a honed white marble island with the veining laid out along its length, and the same marble on the primary bath vanity, shower threshold and seat. It is softer than granite and etches where lemon or wine sits, so it suits an owner who cooks carefully or likes the patina. A bath only asks it to handle soap and water, and there it is the classic. For a kitchen that hosts a crowd every weekend we suggest quartzite.
Quartzite countertops in Mantoloking
Quartzite is the Mantoloking island stone for owners who want Calacatta on a counter that gets used. It is natural stone, harder than granite, so it resists the scratches and etching marble shows, and on a very long island two slabs from the same block can be book matched so the veining mirrors at the joint. Like granite, it gets sealed. A waterfall edge on the island end is laid out so the pattern turns the corner, and the bar and the baths are chosen from stone that sits well next to it.
What we do
Our services in Mantoloking
Beyond countertops, we fabricate stone fireplace surrounds, full height slab backsplashes, bar tops for a deck over the dune, and vanity tops, shower seats and thresholds for Mantoloking homes, planned together so a kitchen, a bar area and several baths read as one design.
Mantoloking
Several slabs, chosen together
A Mantoloking house uses more stone than most: an island that may take two slabs, a long perimeter, a bar, and five or six baths. The efficient way to do it is to choose everything at once, so the veining and the tone carry through the house and the slabs get laid out together before anything is cut. We plan where every seam falls, book match the island where the length calls for it, and size the pieces for a raised house's stairs. The owner, the architect and the builder see the whole layout before fabrication starts.
Get a Free Quote
The showroom trip
From Mantoloking to our Pleasantville showroom
From Mantoloking, take Herbert Street over the Mantoloking Bridge into Brick, then Mantoloking Road west to the Garden State Parkway south. Stay on until the Black Horse Pike exit at Pleasantville, and a minute after the ramp you will see the Cabinets Direct building on the left; that is us. Many Mantoloking owners come down on a weekday and pair the visit with a mainland errand.
7034 Black Horse Pike, Pleasantville, NJ 08232Mon to Fri 10am to 5pm, Sat 10am to 2pm, Sun closed. Call (215) 626-1165.
Why Rye Marble & Granite
Why Mantoloking homeowners choose our showroom
Mantoloking owners, architects and builders use our showroom because we have handled the multi slab kitchen, the book matched island and the matched bath stone that a house here calls for, and because granite, quartz, marble and quartzite are all here to compare side by side under one light. The edge samples are on the counter to hold against a door, and the estimate costs nothing.
Good to know
Mantoloking questions
Where will the seams fall on a long Mantoloking island?
On a large island two slabs from the same block can be book matched so the veining mirrors at the joint, and the seam is set where it reads as part of the pattern. We lay everything out on the slabs before cutting and go over the layout with you first.
How far ahead should we select stone for a Mantoloking build?
While the cabinets are on order. A big house uses several slabs, and choosing them together early keeps the kitchen, bar and baths matched and keeps the countertops off the builder's critical path. We template once the cabinets are set.
Can you match stone across the kitchen, the bar and six baths?
Yes. We select the kitchen stone and the bath and bar pieces together, so the veining and the tone carry through the house. If a bath takes a different stone, we choose one that sits well beside the kitchen stone.
Does a raised oceanfront house change how the stone is fabricated?
Only the piece sizes. We check the stairs and the landing before fabrication, and a long run is split where the seam hides best so every piece gets to the kitchen cleanly. We settle that at templating.
What stone suits a restored Shingle style house in Mantoloking?
A honed marble or a soft veined quartzite with a simple eased or ogee edge looks right in rooms from the 1890s. In the baths, honed Carrara is the classic. Hold the samples against your door at the showroom.
Will you work with our architect and builder?
Yes. We coordinate directly on selections, measurements and scheduling so the stonework fits the larger project, and most Mantoloking jobs come to us through the architect or designer with the owner joining at the showroom.
Nearby
Stonework in nearby South Jersey towns
From Ocean Avenue to Barnegat Lane, Mantoloking kitchens start with a trip over the Mantoloking Bridge and down the Parkway to our showroom. Bay Head, Lavallette and Point Pleasant Beach are on the same road.
All towns: South Jersey service areas