Countertops & stonework in Lavallette, NJ
Countertops in Lavallette, NJ
Granite, quartz and marble countertops for Lavallette's capes, ranches and raised rebuilds between the ocean and Barnegat Bay, from our showroom in Pleasantville.
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Lavallette, NJ
Countertops for a Lavallette cape or a new raised house
Lavallette countertops go into one of two kinds of house. The borough grew from a few hundred people in 1950 to more than two thousand by 1980, so most of the streets between Grand Central Avenue and the ocean, and the bayside blocks along Bay Boulevard toward the Philadelphia Avenue gazebo, are capes and ranches from those thirty years: a kitchen along one wall, a window over the sink, a dining room through a doorway. Sandy in 2012 flooded the borough and a lot of those houses were gutted or replaced, and the rebuilds are raised houses with the kitchen on the second floor and an open plan the original never had. So the two Lavallette projects are an updated cape, where the wall comes down and a peninsula goes where the table was, and a new raised house, where the island, the bar and the baths get planned together. The bayfront houses are built around the view across Barnegat Bay, and the island faces the water.
Our showroom team works with Lavallette homeowners and with the contractors and designers rebuilding and renovating here. A cape that stayed dry wants a real kitchen in a modest footprint; a raised rebuild wants the stone sized for the stairs and chosen for the bar and the baths at the same time. Our countertop fabrication and installation page shows the steps from the first template to the finished counter.
Granite, quartz, marble and quartzite
Which stone for a Lavallette kitchen
Granite countertops in Lavallette
Granite suits a Lavallette kitchen that works all summer. It is quarried stone, very hard, and a mid tone speckled granite hides sand and sunscreen between cleanings. A warm brown granite pairs with the stained cabinets a 1960s cape still has, and a honed grey or black sits well with the white cabinets of a rebuild. Granite is porous, so it takes a sealer that gets renewed when water no longer beads on it, roughly once a year. On a cape's L shaped run the single seam goes at the corner, laid out so the pattern carries across.
Quartz countertops in Lavallette
Quartz is the pick for a Lavallette house that rents for part of the summer or that has to stay white. Engineered stone is non-porous and never sealed, so sunscreen, wine and ketchup wipe up clean, and the color is uniform from the island to the bar. The long slabs mean a cape run comes in one piece, and a soft white keeps a small kitchen feeling open. Hot pots go on a trivet.
Marble countertops in Lavallette
Marble in Lavallette is mostly a bath stone: a honed Carrara vanity top with a matching shower threshold and seat is a regular request for a rebuilt primary bath. On a kitchen island marble is beautiful but soft, and it etches where lemon or vinegar sits, so it suits an owner who keeps the house for family and cooks carefully. For a bayfront island that hosts the boat crowd we suggest quartzite, which gives the same veining on a far harder stone.
Quartzite countertops in Lavallette
In a Lavallette raised rebuild where the owners want Calacatta on a counter that gets real use, quartzite delivers the veined white look of marble on a natural stone harder than granite. It resists scratches and etching far better than marble, the slabs are large enough for an island facing the bay without a seam, and it takes a sealer the way granite does. On a second floor kitchen the stairs decide the piece sizes.
What we do
Our services in Lavallette
Along with countertops, Lavallette homes come to us for fireplace facades and hearths, full height backsplashes, bar tops for a raised house's deck, and vanity tops, shower seats and thresholds for an updated bath, coordinated in the same stone so a new raised house or an updated cape feels of a piece.
Lavallette
A cape kitchen that finally has room
The classic Lavallette project is a 1960s cape whose kitchen was a narrow room along one wall, now opened to the living room with a peninsula where the wall came down. In a small house the stone carries the room: a lighter stone with soft veining keeps it open, an eased edge does not catch in a tight walkway, and a slab backsplash in the same stone replaces the old tile with no grout to scrub. We template to the real walls, which in a cape are rarely square, so the top sits tight with no wide caulk line at the back.
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The showroom trip
From Lavallette to our Pleasantville showroom
From Lavallette, take Grand Central Avenue south through Ortley Beach to the Thomas A. Mathis Bridge, cross into Toms River and pick up the Garden State Parkway south from there. Get off the Parkway at the Black Horse Pike exit in Pleasantville and the showroom is a minute away on the left, sharing a building with Cabinets Direct. Lavallette owners often fold the trip into 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 Lavallette homeowners choose our showroom
Lavallette homeowners use our showroom because we know the cape remodel and the raised rebuild and what each needs from the stone, the edge and the seams. Granite, quartz, marble and quartzite are all here to compare side by side under one light, with edge profiles to hold against a cabinet door, and estimates are free.
Good to know
Lavallette questions
What should I bring to the showroom for a Lavallette cape?
Rough counter measurements, a photo of the room and a cabinet door or a paint chip. If you are rebuilding, the builder's drawing is enough. We match stone to the cabinets and go over edges, seams and sealing while you are here.
Where do the seams go in a small Lavallette kitchen?
In a cape or ranch kitchen most runs come in one piece, and an L shape gets a single seam at the corner. We plan the layout on the slab so the veining carries across any seam, and you see the plan before cutting.
Can you get stone up to a raised Lavallette house?
Yes. For a rebuild with the kitchen on the second floor we check the stair turns at the template visit and size the pieces to make the trip, with any seam placed where it hides. That is settled before fabrication.
Which countertop holds up best in a Lavallette summer rental?
Quartz. It never needs sealing, resists stains and wipes down between guests. For natural stone that holds up, granite is the one. A mid tone hides a busy week better than a bright white.
Can you template a Lavallette house while we are home for the winter?
Yes. After the cabinets are in, your builder or a key holder lets us in to template, and the layout and stone get approved with you by phone or email from wherever you are.
Do you fabricate bath stone for a Lavallette rebuild?
Yes. Vanity tops, shower seats, thresholds and curbs are a regular part of our Lavallette work, often cut from the same stone as the kitchen so the whole house matches.
Nearby
Stonework in nearby South Jersey towns
From Bay Boulevard to the ocean blocks, Lavallette kitchens start with a trip over the Mathis Bridge and down the Parkway to our showroom. Seaside Park, Mantoloking and Bay Head are on the same road.
All towns: South Jersey service areas