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My office, which is a bedroom really, has the infamous popcorn ceilings.  So does the wife's.

The rest of the house had the scourge removed.  The wife wants to redo my ceiling.  Should I?  I fear it generates a LOT of dust.  I don't really look up very often anyway.  

I don't really look up very often

I'd leave it

the ceilings in my house could use some work, but.......... I don't have the ambition

I've sprayed it with a solution and brushed it off after it dries which is the easiest.. I've used flat metal spade and scraped it off while having hose of shop vac taped to handle. I've used wire brush to do it. No matter how it's done, it's a messy job.  Plastic and tape door and windows to room with everything you need inside to contain the mess is all you can do... I hate that stuff ..all but three rooms in my home has it, and I'll give you one guess why it's still there .

Also a big proponent of quartz too . 

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That can differ, based on amounts, supply and install.   In this house build I've seen that go both ways when shopping.  We like the look of the quartz where we are willing to spend on a counter.  

re: cabinet costs.  Here's a look at some of the laundry/craft room cabinets (the white) her gift wrap paper drawer is one way to make it cost more.    Soft close doors, beaded inset drawers,  It gets out of hand. I tease my wife, we are building a new house because she wants a large laundry room and large mudroom.   Then my wife's daring turquoise kitchen island.  That's one half of the sonnaofagun.

Yep, in its slab form,  most granite and quartz are fairly comparable in price, in my fairly intense shopping this past fall.  It begins to vary once you start picking slabs, fabricating, and install.  Granite is marginally more expensive to install.  Now, you could find some style of quartz and find a style of granite that is 2x, and vice versa, but that's cherry picking to prove a point.

Spec cabinets are cheaper and can be very nice.  They just won't fit odd spaces efficiently.  As our kitchen is smallish, and has some odd spaces, we went with purpose built cabinetry to maximize storage.

We did spec cabinets in our old house when we did the kitchen and they were nice.

There also is a thing they call quartzite that is a decent option. Quartz is manufactured stone.

https://countertopguides.com/guides/quartz-vs-quartzite-countertops.html