Here is a sentence that sounds obvious but is not: buying countertops is not like buying countertop material. The slab is only one piece of the puzzle. Fabrication quality — how precisely the stone is cut, how cleanly the edges are profiled, how accurately the template is taken — determines whether your countertop looks like a magazine spread or a close approximation of one. And installation quality determines whether it stays that way. Most homeowners shopping for countertop

Buying cabinets in Charleston is not like buying a couch. You cannot return them if they do not fit. You cannot exchange them if the finish chips in the humidity. And if you order the wrong size because you measured your kitchen the way most people measure things (confidently but incorrectly), you are not getting a refund. Cabinet shopping is a high-stakes decision — and most homeowners do not realise how many fundamentally different purchasing options exist, each with distin

There is a particular kind of homeowner frustration that happens when you call three flooring companies for quotes and get three completely different numbers — sometimes by thousands of dollars — with no clear explanation of why. What is the real cost of flooring installation in Mount Pleasant and Charleston? And why do prices vary so much? We are going to answer that honestly. Not with national averages. Not with 'it depends' non-answers. With the real per-square-foot ranges

If you have ever typed 'how much does a kitchen remodel cost' into Google, you have probably been subjected to a cheerful national average somewhere between $27,000 and $135,000, which is about as useful as a tide chart for Nebraska. National averages are meaningless for a kitchen renovation in Charleston, South Carolina. Labor rates here are different from those in Denver. Material lead times are different. The specific demands of coastal construction are different. The fini

Let's be honest about something: not all home design showrooms are created equal. Some are glorified tile warehouses with fluorescent lighting and a guy who clearly wants to be somewhere else. Some are beautiful but carry exactly three cabinet door styles. Some are dedicated to a single category — great for flooring, useless for everything else. If you are planning a renovation in Charleston, you deserve better than that. And since we happen to run what we believe is the best

There is no countertop question we are asked more frequently at Charleston Design Center than some version of: "Should I go with quartz, granite, or quartzite?" It is also one of the questions with the least useful answers online — because most of what is written conflates the materials, overstates their differences, or makes blanket recommendations without accounting for how a kitchen is actually used. So let us set the record straight with an honest, detailed comparison bas