Need Some Help Choosing Kitchen Work Sufaces?

Need Some Help Choosing Kitchen Work Surfaces?

Sick of the sight of your current kitchen but can’t afford to get the whole room redone? Then a good compromise is to invest in new kitchen work surfaces. We say ‘invest’ because new work surfaces won’t just cheer you and your family up, they will also lead to your home looking better and therefore easier to sell if you ever fancy moving on.

The worktop counters, with the exception of the main table, probably show the most wear and tear in your kitchen anyway as they tend to become ingrained with food stains, knife marks and dents, regardless of how carefully you look after them.

Today ther’s a huge range of materials for kitchen counters to choose from. At My Beautiful Kitchen the most popular varieties we’ve personally fitted are listed below:

Types of kitchen worktops available

Laminate – this is probably the most popular material around today due to its reasonable cost and functionality. There´s a huge variety of colours and designs to choose from. If cut badly, scratched or burnt it´ll have to be replaced (luckily, this is easy enough to do)

Granite – looks great and is easy to keep clean and the bonus is that it is difficult to cut, stain or damage and will last for years. I’s heat resistant (so no burnt counters) and ther’s a lot of choice of colour and pattern available. On the downside, i’s a very heavy material to work with and pretty expensive for an average kitchen spend and, because i’s porous it can both harbour and retain bacteria (not something you want to encourage!). It’s also difficult to get grease marks out.

Marble – a beautiful and stunning material that is similar to granite in that it’s heavy and expensive. It doesn’t have the same toughness as granite though and stains easily. Acidic foods may even discolour the stone

Stainless steel – this will make your kitchen very trendy looking. It’s heat resistant and very durable (except for cutting on unless you want a myriad of scratches). Negatives of this material is that it can dent if thumped and, again, it is quite expensive

Wooden – these can look fabulous and certainly give a kitchen character. However hard wood will become worn in time with water damage and it’ll retain certain stains. Maintenance-wise it’s quite time-consuming as scratches have to be oiled

The above are just a handful of ideas of the type of materials you could use to replace your current kitchen worktops. Others include copper, concrete or even glass. Whatever your choice though, here at My Beautiful Kitchen Kitchens, we’d be happy to offer advice and we can design kitchen worktops in Glasgow, Edinburgh and throughout Scotland, UK.