Countertops & stonework in Mullica Hill, NJ
Countertops in Mullica Hill, NJ
Granite, quartz and marble countertops for Mullica Hill's Main Street historic homes and the Harrison Township subdivisions of the 2000s, from our showroom at the Pleasantville end of the Black Horse Pike.
Or visit our Pleasantville showroom, open Monday to Saturday.
Mullica Hill, NJ
Stone for a Mullica Hill farmhouse or a new build
Mullica Hill countertops go into two kinds of house that sit a mile apart. Main Street is the historic district, 136 buildings in Federal, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles from the 1700s and 1800s, antique dealers in the storefronts and St. Stephen's Church from 1852 in the middle, and the houses behind it have kitchens in rear additions where the project is a period remodel on walls that have settled for two centuries. Then there is the rest of Harrison Township, which nearly tripled between 2000 and 2020 as the orchards and farms off Richwood Road, Tomlin Station Road and Ewan Road became Weatherby, Spicer Estates and the Richwood subdivisions: large colonials with two story foyers, a kitchen built around an island and the builder's granite on it. The 1960s and 1970s ranches and splits along Mullica Hill Road and the older county roads sit between the two. The common project in the subdivisions is replacing the builder's top with a chosen slab; on Main Street it is a kitchen that works for a family and still belongs in the house.
We help Mullica Hill homeowners and the contractors and designers working here choose stone for both. A Main Street farmhouse takes a honed marble or a soft veined quartzite; a Weatherby colonial has the room for a waterfall island and a full height slab backsplash. See our countertop fabrication and installation page for what happens between picking a slab and the finished counter.
Granite, quartz, marble and quartzite
Which stone for a Mullica Hill kitchen
Granite countertops in Mullica Hill
Granite is a step up from the builder granite most Weatherby and Spicer Estates kitchens came with. Choosing a full thickness slab in a quiet grey, warm brown or honed black for its own pattern, rather than from the builder's three options, changes the room. It is quarried stone and very hard; a big family kitchen will not mark it. It is porous, so once a year, when water stops beading, a coat of sealer goes on. A large island gets laid out on the slab before cutting, so the seam reads as part of the veining.
Quartz countertops in Mullica Hill
A Mullica Hill kitchen that wants white counters and zero sealing is a quartz kitchen. It is non-porous engineered stone: spills wipe clean, and the color holds steady from the island to the end of the perimeter run. The long slabs matter in a 2000s colonial, where an island can run ten feet and quartz often covers it in one piece. The soft whites and greys suit the painted shaker cabinets most Harrison Township remodels move to. A trivet lives by the range.
Marble countertops in Mullica Hill
Marble belongs on Main Street, because the houses were built with it: the fireplace surrounds, the washstands and the thresholds of the 1800s were marble, and a honed Carrara counter in the kitchen of a Mullica Hill farmhouse looks like it was always there. Being softer than granite, it will show an etch mark where lemon or vinegar sat, so it is for owners who cook carefully or welcome the patina. In a bath it is the easy choice, and a marble vanity top with a matching threshold is one of the most common pieces we fabricate for the historic district.
Quartzite countertops in Mullica Hill
Quartzite is the Mullica Hill island stone for a subdivision home where the owners want Calacatta on a counter that gets used, and for a Main Street house that wants the marble look on a kitchen that cooks every night. Harder than granite, it holds up where marble would scratch or etch, and the slab sizes cover a long island with no seam. Like granite, it gets sealed. A waterfall edge is laid out so the veining turns the corner.
What we do
Our services in Mullica Hill
We do the whole home. In Mullica Hill that means fireplace surrounds that suit an older living room or anchor a new great room, slab backsplashes, marble vanity tops, and shower seats and thresholds for an updated bath, each chosen to fit the house and fabricated in granite, quartz, marble or quartzite.
Mullica Hill
Two centuries of kitchens on one road
A Mullica Hill project is either a farmhouse kitchen that has to fit walls that settled before the Civil War or a 2004 colonial whose builder top is coming out, and we treat them differently. For the farmhouse we template the room itself after the cabinets are set, so the top follows the real walls and the back edge is scribed to the plaster, and we pick a honed stone and a simple eased or ogee edge. For the colonial we plan the island on the slab so it comes in one piece, use the rest of the slab on the perimeter, and replace the tile backsplash with a slab in the same stone.
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The showroom trip
From Mullica Hill to our Pleasantville showroom
From Mullica Hill the trip is almost one road. Take the bypass east toward Glassboro and Williamstown, where it becomes the Black Horse Pike, and stay on the Pike through Folsom and Mays Landing all the way to Pleasantville; the showroom is on the Pike at the Egg Harbor Township line, on the right in the building we share with Cabinets Direct. Plenty of Mullica Hill owners drive down on a Saturday morning, door sample in the back.
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 Mullica Hill homeowners choose our showroom
Mullica Hill homeowners and designers use our showroom because we understand what a 1700s farmhouse kitchen and a 2000s colonial each need, from a scribed back edge to an island laid out in one piece, and because granite, quartz, marble and quartzite are all here to compare side by side under one light. We have the edge profiles out to hold against a cabinet door, and the estimate is free.
Good to know
Mullica Hill questions
Can you template a 1700s Mullica Hill kitchen?
Yes. We template the room itself, so the tops follow the real walls, and a back edge that needs to be scribed to old plaster is handled at fabrication. The template is what keeps the counter tight to the wall in a house that is not square.
What should I bring to the showroom for a Harrison Township new build?
The builder's kitchen drawing, a cabinet door sample or color, and a photo of the flooring. Bring any kitchen photo you like. We match stone to it and go over edges, seams and sealing while you are here.
Can you replace the builder granite in a Weatherby kitchen and keep the cabinets?
Yes, if the cabinets are sound. The new top is fabricated to a template of the cabinets you keep, and out with the old and in with the new is a single day. Nothing changes the kitchen more than a slab picked for its own pattern.
What stone suits a Main Street house in Mullica Hill?
A honed marble or a soft veined quartzite with a simple eased or ogee edge looks right in rooms from the 1700s and 1800s. In the bath, honed Carrara is the stone the houses were built with. We match samples to your door in the showroom.
Which countertop holds up best for a Mullica Hill family?
Granite or quartz. Granite brings pattern and takes heat; quartz skips sealing and stays uniform. Quartzite is the premium natural pick for an island, and marble suits a vanity or a farmhouse kitchen.
Do you do bathrooms as well as kitchens in Mullica Hill?
Yes. Vanity tops, shower seats, thresholds and fireplace stone are a regular part of our Mullica Hill work, often cut from the same stone as the kitchen so the whole house reads as one design.
Nearby
Stonework in nearby South Jersey towns
From Main Street to Weatherby, Mullica Hill kitchens start with a drive east on the Black Horse Pike to our showroom. Haddonfield, Voorhees and Cherry Hill are the next towns over on the same trip.
All towns: South Jersey service areas