You are showing your age Sk8rboi ;D
My wife really likes the cutting block style counters
You mean the wooden benchtops? We have that now and the kitchen (not our design and the function is terrible) is 20+ already. However, we are looking at getting another wooden top, or a really basic ceramic white one. Not sure still, as the space is large but surprisingly weird, making the design hard.
Yes, that, she calls them butchers block actually, not cutting block. But yeah, wood. Ceramic sounds nice too.
Age... "guilty!"
Ceramic will last and is very easy - but might be a bit soulless, unless we do something to pull in some texture.
We were talking about your kitchen en route to Leeds today, just thought I'd tell you cuz she's kinda set on the wood counters. We looked up ceramic cuz neither of us were quite sure how they looked.
NIIIICCE! White with the veiny granite looking grains through it is real nice.