| The importance of countertops is in setting the design | | | | The leather finish requires the surface to be honed. To |
| and working height of your kitchen. The homeowner is | | | | bring color and the pores closer the honed surface is |
| on constant lookout and wants something new in | | | | subjected to diamond polishing which also makes the |
| design, color and size. This emerging trend in kitchen | | | | stone denser, giving it lesser porosity. Leather finish is |
| and bathroom countertops has forced the fabricators | | | | very popular. One can also avail of river-was finish or |
| and suppliers to adapt to the requirements of the | | | | brush finish wherein the counter top is flamed or bush |
| customers and fulfilling their requirements. | | | | hammered. To smoothen the sharpness of the |
| The first step towards this started with honing the | | | | surface it is polished with brushes. This process may |
| natural stone. But the dust, fingerprints and food which | | | | takes out the original color and the surface may |
| showed up. Adding up to it were issues of the counter | | | | become porous. |
| top looking great from one angle and less ideal from | | | | With a number of natural stone fabricators willing to |
| the other angle.( basically a finishing issue). This gave | | | | provide the improved applications on the counter top |
| rise to a solution of leather finish, providing consistent | | | | the brushed and leather finish kitchen countertops are |
| and uniform finish. Eliminating the issue of dirt, finger | | | | becoming more and more popular. With granite |
| prints making maintenance much easier. A honed | | | | definitely being the first choice for kitchen. |
| surface can be sealed to resist the permeability. | | | | |