Ideas & advice

Worktops Plus diary

Colour trends, care guides and kitchen design notes from our team.

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Ranges

How to choose the right surface

Corian, HI-MACS, Staron and our other solid surface brands — explained without the jargon.

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In the kitchen

See the finish on a real run

Then order samples and live with the colour in your own light.

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Family kitchen island with homework sheets and breakfast bowls on a solid surface worktop

Specify a family worktop for Wednesday, not for a staged Saturday

Farmhouse sink aperture templated into a solid surface family kitchen worktop

Template the farmhouse sink as furniture, not as a later hole

Family kitchen peninsula with homework, school bags and stools at a solid surface overhang

Size the peninsula for homework, school bags and real stools

Pale solid surface island in a family kitchen showing few fingerprints after use

Pale family islands that forgive fingerprints between wipes

Plain-English family kitchen worktop quote listing cut-outs, radii and extras

Write every family extra on the quote in ordinary English

Kitchen corner where a radiator and coat rail interrupt a solid surface worktop run

Tell the templater about radiators, coat rails and occupied corners