Newmarket Kitchen in White and Oak with SuperStone Quartz

This kitchen had pickled-oak cathedral doors, a laminate top with a drop-in double sink, and a built-in desk beside the fridge where the paper piled up. The U-shaped layout stayed. The uppers went white shaker, the lowers went oak veneer, and SuperStone SS129 quartz now covers every counter, including the old desk.

A U-shaped kitchen with pickled-oak cathedral cabinets, a grey laminate counter and a peninsula — Before and install day: the peninsula. The lower fronts went on after the counters.

The same layout with white shaker uppers, oak-veneer lowers and white SuperStone SS129 quartz on the peninsula and perimeter, photographed on install day, Newmarket Ontario — Before and install day: the peninsula. The lower fronts went on after the counters.

The job

Town	Newmarket, ON
Scope	Full kitchen on the existing U-shaped layout: cabinets, quartz counters and backsplash, undermount double sink, the desk nook rebuilt as counter space, a coffee bar with floating shelves, a pantry with roll-out trays
Cabinets	White shaker uppers, oak-veneer slim shaker lowers
Stone	SuperStone SS129 quartz
Edge	1½" mitred edge around the peninsula
Backsplash	Matching SS129 quartz, up to the window sill on the sink wall
Sink	16-gauge stainless undermount double bowl
Timeline	Deposit Apr 17, cabinets delivered at the end of May, job signed off Jul 29, 2026
Warranty	5 years on the cabinets, 2 years workmanship on the countertop

Decisions along the way

Two finishes. White shaker on the uppers, oak veneer on the lowers: still a wood kitchen, without the pickled finish and the cathedral arches.
Undermount instead of drop-in. The drop-in double sink came out with the laminate. A 16-gauge undermount double bowl now sits in the quartz, so there is no rim to scrub around.
Quartz to the sill. The same SS129 runs up the wall to the window sill behind the sink: no grout lines behind the tap.
The desk nook. The built-in desk beside the fridge became a proper counter: oak-veneer drawers, SS129 quartz and a full quartz backsplash under a white shaker upper.
A coffee bar and open shelves. Custom oak-veneer floating shelves on oak-veneer panels: a coffee bar in the niche over a quartz-topped base, and a column of shelves beside the window. Every shelf has LED lighting, and so do the wall cabinets underneath.
A pantry that pulls out. Behind the tall door, four roll-out trays instead of fixed shelves, so nothing gets lost at the back.
The peninsula. The quartz is mitred to 1½" around the peninsula, so its exposed edges look like solid stone.

A drop-in stainless double sink in a laminate counter under a window — Before and install day: the sink wall.

A stainless undermount double bowl in white SS129 quartz with quartz running up to the window sill, Newmarket Ontario — Before and install day: the sink wall.

A built-in desk with pickled-oak drawers beside the fridge, covered in paperwork — Before and install day: the old desk nook.

The desk nook rebuilt as a counter with oak-veneer drawers, white quartz and a full quartz backsplash under a white shaker upper, Newmarket Ontario — Before and install day: the old desk nook.

A coffee bar niche with three oak-veneer floating shelves on an oak panel over a white quartz counter and oak-veneer doors, Newmarket Ontario — The coffee bar, the shelves by the window and the pantry roll-outs, photographed before the shelf lights were connected.

A tall oak panel with three floating oak shelves beside the kitchen window, Newmarket Ontario — The coffee bar, the shelves by the window and the pantry roll-outs, photographed before the shelf lights were connected.

What it would cost

SuperStone SS129 is in our Essential range: from $78 per sq ft installed, with the mitred edge, one undermount sink cut-out and faucet hole, delivery and installation in the price. The quartz backsplash is priced at the same rate per sq ft as the counters, and the sink itself is extra. For scale, a small 30 sq ft kitchen in Essential quartz is $2,574 installed, before backsplash. Cabinets depend on the layout, the door style and the boxes, so they are quoted from your sizes; you can price cabinets and stone together in the Kitchen Builder. All prices + HST. See what each quartz tier includes.

A Newmarket kitchen in white and oak, with SuperStone SS129 quartz

The job

Decisions along the way

What it would cost

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