The Homeowner’s Guide to Cambria Quartz Countertops for Ontario Kitchens, Vanities, and Feature Surfaces

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Sep 14

Cambria is a leading quartz brand providing beautifully manufactured, customized quartz countertops and solid surfaces for kitchens, vanities, and other applications throughout the home. Use our Cambria quartz guide to understand why it is a top choice for homeowners looking for a distinctive look and lasting performance.

What is Cambria quartz?

Cambria has been producing quality engineered solid surfaces since the turn of the millennium from facilities across North America, including a plant creating custom slabs right here in Ontario. Cambria countertops are high-quality, tailor-made slabs known for their durable performance and design-friendly collections shoppable by colour or distinct design features.

With the beauty of natural stone and the low-maintenance durability of a manufactured material, Cambria quartz is designed to withstand the demands of daily use, backed by a full lifetime warranty. With a mix of pure white natural quartz, binders for durability, and pigments for aesthetic appeal, Cambria captures the look of granite, marble, and stone such as soapstone in a nonporous option.

What are the benefits of Cambria quartz?

Homeowners choose Cambria countertops and solid surfaces for their homes because they are high-quality products offering value for their investment. Cambria’s full lifetime warranty is transferable when they sell their home, making it an attractive prospect that helps their property maintain its value. As a leading quartz manufacturer, Cambria also offers the following benefits:

Gorgeous surfaces: Innovative designs hit all the right aesthetics with changing palettes to keep up with the latest styles while maintaining timeless classics. The commitment to choosing the purest white quartz allows Cambria to produce a pristine colour palette with unique patterns that capture the intricacies of naturally occurring features such as veining and speckling without the muddiness or inconsistencies sometimes found in natural stones. Because it is nonabsorbent, it is easy to clean, stain-resistant, and durable. It does not rely on Mother Nature to produce its intricate designs, allowing homeowners to colour or style-match any design scheme.
Sustainability: Sustainable harvesting of small aggregate natural quartz creates larger yields, uses a smaller footprint, and reduces waste.
Lasting beauty: Cambria’s non-porous engineering creates a durable, low-maintenance surface.
Flexibility: Cambria quartz offers design flexibility with a wide range of applications, including quartz countertops, vanity tops, solid-surface kitchen backsplashes, fireplace surrounds, shower surrounds, feature walls, and more.

Where can Cambria quartz be used in the home?

We’ve helped homeowners create stunning spaces throughout the home using Cambria quartz as a unique feature, including the following:

Quartz Countertops

Kitchen countertops are the most common application for Cambria products thanks to their durability, less demanding care, and ability to withstand the daily rigours of busy families. As one of the largest surfaces in the kitchen, Cambria quartz also aligns with any style, making it a logical choice to create standout kitchens.

Backsplashes

Quartz is an easy-to-clean, waterproof solid surface ideal for seamless backsplashes and free of distracting grout. Cambria allows you to mix and match different styles and colours thanks to a complementary palette thoughtfully designed to carry one look throughout the kitchen.

Shower and Bathroom Walls

The straightforward installation of solid slab walls creates an unmatched seamless look that feels luxurious and elegant. Without the need for fussy grout, installers save time and money while creating a reliable water seal and worry-free surface for quick cleaning.

Vanity Counters

You can carry the look throughout the bathroom with sophisticated vanity counters that set the mind at ease, whether starting your morning in beautiful surroundings or relaxing after a long day in your peaceful sanctuary.

Feature Walls

Set the tone with elegant feature walls in unexpected areas throughout the home, from entryways to powder rooms and fireplace surrounds to living rooms.

Custom Built-Ins and Furnishings

Elegant Cambria quartz is suitable for durable surfaces as the finishing touch for your custom pieces. Make a statement with customized, purpose-built pieces from desks to coffee tables and sideboards to dining tables.

Designing Spaces With Cambria Quartz

Quartz is a highly shoppable solid slab material that allows homeowners to achieve the exact look they want for any space. You can search over 200 quartz designs by colour or pattern to explore the endless possibilities for the surfaces in each room.

Patterns add texture and interest, while solid slabs infuse a splash of colour with an impressive palette of neutrals and accents. Here are some design ideas to get you started:

Colour

Matching counter colours to major design decisions you’ve already made is an effortless way to choose your quartz surfaces. For example, when choosing quartz countertops for the kitchen or bathroom vanity, you can use your cabinet colour as your inspiration. Perhaps you have wallpaper, window treatments, or an heirloom rug with varied colour possibilities to choose from. Cambria colour choices include:

White
Grey
Black
Beige
Gold
Brown
Blue
Green
Red

Pattern

Once you narrow down your colours, you can consider how to introduce patterns into your design scheme. If you’re not sure which pattern is right for you, consider the following pattern characteristics:

Veined: Veining is a timeless look common in stone such as marble. It can be subtle in patterns such as Traymore Bay or more dramatic with high contrast, such as Hemsworth.
Wave: Waves such as Inverness Bristol Bay, Southport, or Brittanicca work well to create visual interest when run horizontally across a long wall as a kitchen backsplash, down a cascading waterfall island, or for bathroom shower walls.
Granular: Granular quartz countertops are highly textured to help add depth to surfaces. This classic speckled stone look is fine and detailed, offering an excellent way to add more colour, such as the reddish burgundy tones of Lancaster or the rich chocolate brown and earthy warmth of Burton Brown.
Waterstone: The look of waterstone is less “structured” than veining or waves with varied degrees of mottling, veining, and distinct “chunks” of solids in the background. It ranges from soft and subtle in designs such as Newport and Malvern to highly textured and contrasted, such as Rose Bay or Berwyn. The more contrast in the waterstone pattern, the more abstract and dramatic it becomes, and the more blurred and softer the transitions in the pattern, the more unified and relaxed it becomes.

Contact the Experts at Quartz Co Surfaces

Quartz Co Surfaces invites you to visit one of our showrooms located in Niagara, Barrie, Oakville, Mississauga, Waterloo, Port Carling, or Collingwood to meet our experts and discover the beauty of quartz brands like Cambria. We can walk you through the Cambria quartz selection and help you understand how and why it is a leading choice for quartz countertops, vanities, and a range of feature surfaces. Click here to book your free consultation with our team today.