Kitchen & Bathroom Worktops

The worktop is the most-used surface in the kitchen and the one that sets the tone for everything around it, so it's worth taking time over.

The right choice depends on how you actually use the room. Hot pans, chopping, baking, a house full of children, a sink that never stays dry: each of these points towards a different material and a different finish. We start with those questions rather than with the samples.

Colour and pattern are easier to judge in person than on a screen. Bring your door and floor finishes to our Worthing showroom, see the full slabs in daylight, and you'll know within minutes which direction feels right.

Your kitchen should be as individual as your home, so we work across natural stone, granite and man-made surfaces rather than pushing everyone towards the same material.

Every worktop is cut to your kitchen. Once the cabinetry is in, the surfaces are templated to the room itself, which is what allows sink cut-outs, hob openings, drainer grooves, upstands and edge profiles to be worked out around your layout rather than fitted around a standard size.

The details are where a worktop starts to feel bespoke: a thicker island top, a softened edge, a splashback in the same stone. We'll talk these through at the design stage, when they're still easy to change.

Our portfolio includes Silestone and Caesarstone alongside granite and other natural stone, so there's a match for most tastes and most budgets.

Natural stone has a character no two slabs share, since the veining and colour come out of the ground that way. Engineered surfaces take the opposite approach: the pattern is consistent from one end of the run to the other, and the finish is non-porous, so it needs no sealing.

Neither is the better material in the abstract. It depends on whether you want the run to be uniform or want the surface to be the thing people notice, and we're happy to put samples of both in front of you.