Quartz is an engineered stone made mostly of ground quartz mineral bound with resin, while quartzite is a natural stone cut from the earth. That single difference drives almost every practical distinction between them: how much upkeep each one needs, how each one holds up against San Antonio’s hard water, what each one costs, and […]
At New Generation Kitchen & Bath, we fabricate and install custom quartz, granite, and quartzite countertops for kitchens across San Antonio, including Helotes, Stone Oak, Alamo Heights, Shavano Park, and west San Antonio. A countertop edge profile is the shape cut into the front and side edges of your slab, and the choice affects the […]
Quartz is engineered stone. Crushed natural quartz is bound with resin and pigment and pressed into a slab, which is why it arrives non-porous, consistent in color, and without the sealing schedule that comes with quarried stone. New Generation Kitchen & Bath supplies, fabricates, and installs quartz countertops in San Antonio, and we build the […]
Most style guides hand you a wall of pretty photos and leave you to guess. The problem is not finding a cabinet door you like; it is knowing which style fits your budget, your cleaning patience, and the way your San Antonio home is built. This guide pairs each major door style to the buyer […]
This is the decision that sets your budget, your timeline, and the final look of your kitchen, and most people make it backwards. They fall for a fully bespoke showroom kitchen and assume they need custom, or they grab the cheapest big-box stock and discover it does not fit their San Antonio home. The three […]
Most wood-for-cabinets guides rank species by looks and call it a day, and almost none mention where you live. In San Antonio, heat and humidity swings decide how a cabinet ages as much as the wood you pick. This guide covers both halves of the decision, the box you do not see and the wood […]
Before you sign anything, you want to know what you are actually signing up for: how long it takes, how disruptive it is, and what could go wrong. Most cabinet pages sell the finished kitchen and skip the messy middle. Think of this as the roadmap a contractor who has done it hundreds of times […]
Most people start a kitchen project by picking a door color and a countertop, then try to make the cabinets fit. Designers do it the other way around. Layout and sizing come first, because a beautiful cabinet in the wrong place gives you a kitchen that fights you every morning. This guide covers the layouts […]
Most people budgeting for new cabinets do the same thing: type the question into Google, land on a national calculator, and copy down a number. The trouble is that the number means almost nothing for an actual San Antonio kitchen. A national average does not know local labor rates, it does not know that a […]
Most people choose cabinets by the door they can see and never think about the box behind it. That is backwards. The biggest construction decision in your kitchen, framed or frameless, is the part you cannot judge from a showroom photo, and it quietly shapes your drawer space, how the cabinet ages, and which door […]
