Countertops are durable work surfaces that work in tandem with cabinetry and appliances to complete a kitchen. They are essential design elements with an expansive array of colour, texture, and material options available on the market. While regularly part of inventories offered by kitchen suppliers, countertops can also be purchased directly from manufacturers.
Users may require different levels of technical performance from countertops, though they typically seek materials of high density and low porosity to resist staining and the absorption of moisture, grease, and oils. Hardness, self-cleaning, and resistance to shock, scratching, acid, cleaning agents, and bacteria are other typical characteristics of high-quality products. The market-leading materials include Terrazzo, granite, quartz, solid wood, and even polished concrete.
Homeowners and designers often consider a number of details when choosing the right countertop for their space. Whether a surface is matt, polished or reflective is one primary design factor. The density or visibility of veining is important for many buyers of stone products; achieving imperceptible joints is important to others. A standard choice suppliers offer is the option for corner and edge details that can be squared, beveled, angled, or curved. Thicknesses are typically 12mm and 20mm for working surfaces and 3mm and 6mm for vertical credences or backsplashes.
The kitchen countertops listed below are among the most popular products currently on the market:
1. Silestone, Cosentino
New opportunities for obsolete spaces: OOIIO Architecture completes the transformation of a former Shop into an Apartment in Madrid. In just 55 m2 this colorful home concentrates what is necessary for a contem...
2. Whitelight Collection, Caesarstone
In a densely packed beachside neighborhood, MB House is intended to provide a spacious, peaceful feeling, offering an experience close to nature throughout the interior of the building itself.
3. Krion® Solid surface, PORCELANOSA
All about this project is the site: A hilltop in Mallorca, an empty natural space offering dramatic topography and fabulous views. How to design a house in such a plot at the best possible location? The program...
4. concrete kitchens by dade design, dade-design
House Z22 und Warehouse F88 This is a Reconstruction of a multi-family house with workshop rooms underneath in the area Seefeld of the city of Zurich. The house has been in a core zone since the...
5. SATIN Finish, Lapitec
After receiving an Iconic Award last year, architect Michele Perlini returns to the theme of portable living with the NO.MADE nomadic micro home: a modular living space capable of assimilating into any setting in whic...
6. HT603, Henrytimi
Earthy, simplicity… these are the first two words which the clients pronounced during our first meeting as fundaments of the inspirational concept leading the project of their Mediterranean house in Italy. And it was...
7. Cement, Florim Ceramiche
Every project starts with a client, a place, and a program. This one began with a couple, a conversation, and a model made with the objects that were on the table. At that moment, there was the recognition that the sh...
8. Pegasus-N, Arizona Tile
After a decade of trying to adapt their lives to the confines of a house that couldn’t meet their needs, a young family purchased a vacant lot at the base of Camelback Mountain in Phoenix, Arizona. The lot had a...
9. 5211 Noble Grey, Caesarstone
The listed farmhouse is situated in the area of Ried, Schmitten (Fribourg). The mandate was to transform the old barn into a residential building.As the building is listed, it was significant to keep...
