Is your kitchen looking past its best? Maybe the doors are hanging off the cupboards? Perhaps, the benchtop is scratched and damaged? It could be that your kitchen doesn't look too bad, but it simply doesn't suit your lifestyle. Maybe, there isn't enough benchtop space, or you can't store everything that you use because the kitchen doesn't make efficient use of the available space. Whatever your needs may be, there is never a wrong time to consider fitting a new kitchen, and why not include a natural stone benchtop in your kitchen design?
Why choose a natural stone benchtop?
Benchtops are one of the first things that people notice when they enter your kitchen. The benchtop is where you will prepare food and also where you will store all of the gadgets and equipment you use every day. You may have a cluttered benchtop with a kettle, toaster, rice cooker and other items, but they probably still won't hide the stains and scratches the surface has collected over the years. When you want to replace your benchtop, you could opt for a laminate surface. Laminate is cheap and looks great when it is first installed, but over time it can become marked and stained as knives cut through it and warm pans are left standing on the benchtop. A natural stone benchtop offers a more durable solution that won't mark easily and will still look great years after it has been installed. If a natural stone benchtop does happen to get dirty, it can be wiped clean with only a damp cloth.
Doesn't stone look dull?
There are many advantages to choosing a natural stone benchtop, but some people are reluctant to fit a natural stone benchtop because they think that stone is dull and unattractive in appearance. Natural stone can be beautiful to behold. If you choose to fit an engineered natural stone benchtop, you can choose almost any colour you wish. Engineered stone is simply natural stone combined with resin to offer you more options. You could fit a benchtop with a solid colour or one that has coloured flecks, offering a contrast to the majority colour. To find out what type of natural stone benchtop would fit well in your kitchen, talk to your local installation company. They will be happy to measure your kitchen and design a kitchen that is ideally suited to the needs of your family. You can have the mix of storage space and work surface that works for your family, and you can have a natural stone benchtop in whatever colour works with the rest of your design.
