If you’re looking for singular beauty in a stone feature for a house, you’ll find it in soapstone.
You’ll also find flexibility, because soapstone is suitable for all kinds of high-profile applications such as countertops, tile, sinks, showers, and custom designs, according to M. Teixeira Soapstones. And you can work it yourself.
Soapstone is a soft stone compared with other stones and can be milled with tools you already have — circ saw (with diamond blade), angle grinder, sanders and router. Soapstone is heavy (at 1-1/4-inch thick it weighs about 20 pounds a square foot), so you’ll need some muscle at certain points to move it. You can usually get the countertop and backsplashes out of the rough slab M. Tiexeira sends, too. Sweet.
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