Countertops & stonework in Medford, NJ
Countertops in Medford, NJ
Granite, quartz, marble and quartzite countertops for Medford's lakefront homes, Pinelands custom builds and Medford Village houses, from our Pleasantville showroom.
Or visit our Pleasantville showroom, open Monday to Saturday.
Medford, NJ
Stone for a Medford kitchen in the woods
Medford countertops go into houses on big wooded lots. The township grew from under five thousand people in 1960 to more than twenty thousand by 1990, and most of that is custom and semi custom homes from the 1970s through the 2000s set back on an acre off Stokes Road, Tuckerton Road, Church Road, Hartford Road and Taunton Boulevard, much of it inside the Pinelands reserve. The lake communities, Taunton Lake, Lake Pine, Birchwood Lakes, Centennial Pines and Oak Hill, are the older layer, cottages and ranches from the 1950s and 1960s that have been enlarged or replaced, with the kitchen turned toward the water. Medford Village, the historic downtown along Main Street, Union Street and Branch Street, holds the 1800s houses where the kitchen is a rear addition and the project is a period remodel. A Medford kitchen tends to be large, with a long island, a family room and a fireplace in view, and the common project is replacing a 1990s builder top and the tile backsplash with a chosen slab and a full height backsplash.
We help Medford homeowners and the architects, builders and designers working here choose stone for a kitchen with room. A lakefront house wants a stone that looks right against the light off the water; a Village house wants a honed stone and a simple edge; a Pinelands custom home has the space for a waterfall island. What happens between slab and finished counter is laid out on our countertop fabrication and installation page.
Granite, quartz, marble and quartzite
Which stone for a Medford kitchen
Granite countertops in Medford
Granite suits a Medford kitchen that looks out at the woods. The warm browns, greens and golds with real movement pair with the stained cabinets and wood floors a lot of Medford houses are built around, and a honed black suits a lakefront kitchen with white cabinets. Quarried and very hard, it takes everything a big family kitchen does to it without a mark. Because granite is porous it gets resealed about once a year, when water stops beading on it. We lay a big island out on the slab first, so any seam falls where the pattern carries across it.
Quartz countertops in Medford
For a Medford kitchen going white with no sealing ever, quartz is the stone. Because it is engineered and non-porous, wine and tomato sauce wipe away, and the island and the long perimeter match exactly. Slab length matters in a custom home: a ten foot island is common and quartz often covers it in a single piece. The soft whites and greys suit the painted shaker cabinets most Medford remodels move to. A trivet lives by the range.
Marble countertops in Medford
Marble in Medford belongs in the Village and in the baths. A honed Carrara counter in the kitchen of a Main Street house from the 1800s looks like it was always there, and a marble vanity top with a matching shower threshold and seat is a regular request for a primary bath anywhere in the township. Marble is soft compared with granite and will etch where acid sits, so it suits a careful cook or someone who likes a counter that ages. For a lakefront kitchen that hosts a crowd we suggest quartzite instead.
Quartzite countertops in Medford
In a Medford custom home where the owners want Calacatta on a counter that gets used, quartzite is the island stone. As a natural stone harder than granite it resists the scratches and etching marble shows, and its slabs are long enough to do an island in one piece. Like granite, it gets sealed. A waterfall edge on the island end is a common request on the wooded lots, and we lay the top and the leg out on the same slab so the veining turns the corner.
What we do
Our services in Medford
We do the whole home. In Medford that means statement fireplace surrounds for a large living room, slab backsplashes that carry the counter up the wall, marble or quartzite vanity tops, shower seats and thresholds for a primary bath, and bar tops for a finished basement, all in coordinated granite, quartz, marble or quartzite.
Medford
A kitchen turned toward the lake
On Taunton Lake and Lake Pine the kitchen faces the water, and the stone gets planned around that: the seam kept off the side you look at most, the veining laid out to run toward the view, and a waterfall edge where the island is the showpiece. The light off a lake under the pines is softer and greener than beach light, so a stone that reads cool in the showroom can warm up at home; we send samples with you to check. The fireplace facing and the bath stone get chosen at the same visit so the house reads as one design.
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The showroom trip
From Medford to our Pleasantville showroom
From Medford, take Jackson Road south to the White Horse Pike at Atco, then a few minutes on to the Atlantic City Expressway at Winslow, which runs east the whole way to Pleasantville. Exit at Pleasantville, follow the signs to the Black Horse Pike, and the showroom is just a few minutes away in the building Cabinets Direct uses. A Saturday morning run is enough for most Medford owners to pick the stone by lunchtime.
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 Medford homeowners choose our showroom
Medford homeowners, builders and designers use our showroom because we have done the lakefront island, the Pinelands custom kitchen and the Village remodel many times, and because granite, quartz, marble and quartzite are all here to compare side by side under one light. Edge profiles sit on the counter to try against your door, and estimates are free.
Good to know
Medford questions
What edge suits a Medford lakefront kitchen?
On a wide island a built-up or waterfall edge makes the most of the space, and in a period kitchen in the Village an eased or bullnose edge keeps the focus on the stone. We hold edge samples against your cabinet door at the showroom so you can see them together.
How far ahead should we choose stone for a Medford custom home?
While the cabinets are being ordered. The template happens once the cabinets are set, and having the stone picked keeps the countertops from holding up the rest of the finish work. Your builder's schedule sets the template date and the day the stone goes in.
Can you replace the builder top in a 1990s Medford kitchen and keep the cabinets?
Yes, if the cabinets are sound. The new stone is templated to the existing boxes, the old top comes out and the new one goes in the same day, and a full height slab backsplash replaces the tile.
Will the stone look the same at the lake as it does in the showroom?
Not always. Light under the pines and off the water is softer and greener than showroom light, so we send samples home with you and look at a photo of the kitchen before you decide.
What stone suits a Medford Village house from the 1800s?
A honed marble or a soft veined quartzite with a simple eased or ogee edge looks right in rooms from that era. Honed Carrara is the bath classic. We template to the real walls of an old addition so the top sits tight.
Do you fabricate fireplace stone for a Medford great room?
Yes. Fireplace surrounds and hearths are a regular part of our Medford work, often chosen with the kitchen stone so the great room and the kitchen read as one design. The showroom has samples to compare.
Nearby
Stonework in nearby South Jersey towns
From Medford Village to Taunton Lake, Medford kitchens start with a run down the Expressway to our showroom. Marlton, Mount Laurel and Moorestown take the same road.
All towns: South Jersey service areas