Washington Post

Why Designers are Using Laminate in the Kitchens Again

When designer Lathem Gordon, of the Atlanta firm GordonDunning, bought the house that she shares with her family in Decatur, Ga., its kitchen had black laminate countertops fringed with a stainless steel perimeter. “When we first walked in, I thought, ‘Well, that’s going,’” she recalls. And then something funny happened: After Gordon began tweaking things around the existing counters, such as the cabinetry color and hardware, and installing an inexpensive ceramic tile backsplash, the black laminate became a winner. “As I started to work through the design process and changed other things, they strangely seemed to be just fine,” she says.

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