Kitchen Planning: How to Choose the Perfect Worktop

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Kitchen Planning: How to Choose the Perfect Worktop- Wood or concrete? Natural or engineered stone? Stainless steel or marble? The worktop you choose will have a huge impact on both the look and functionality of your kitchen. So, before you buy, ask yourself some key questions. What look do you want to achieve? Are you keen on a smooth, sleek finish, or is an aged patina more your style? What kind of cook are you? Do you like to have everything out and strewn around, or do you clean and tidy as you go? Do you have a big, busy family, or lots of dinner parties, or are you preparing meals for one or two? This will have an impact on how extensive and how robust your worktop needs to be.

Don’t rule out mixing two materials – a marble slab with wooden worktops, say, or a stainless steel island with a wooden breakfast bar attached. Different materials can serve different culinary purposes, and can also be used to visually order your kitchen. ‘Mixing materials is an effective way to define kitchen zones,’ says Julia Sugden of Roundhouse.

There are pros and cons to each material. Your choice will come down to how robust you need your worktop to be, how much you’re prepared to look after it, and how you want it to look in your kitchen scheme. Check out this guide to the 10 key types of work surface, plus new materials on the block, to help you decide.

Professional advice from:
Tim Wood of Tim Wood Limited
Steve Dempsey of Ebstone Kitchens
Julia Sugden of Roundhouse
Emma James of Deco Glaze
Alice Paice of Tipfords
Chris Hambrook of Increation
Jeremy Friendship of Studio 3 Kitchens

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