
When it comes to choosing kitchen worktops there are many different choices. There is wood, Corian, laminates, stainless steel, quartz, marble, granite, quartzite, sintered stone, limestone, and even cement! Some of these, such as wood, need a considerable amount of care and cleaning, while others may look great for a few short years but suddenly […]

Kitchen worktops can be made from a huge choice of different materials and can be chosen according to your budget, your individual taste, the way that they perform in the kitchen, or a combination of any of those. Budget is often a defining factor, but it doesn’t have to be. If you would like something […]

Granite is one of the hardest rocks there is, hence the sayings “As tough as granite” and “As hard as granite”. It is an igneous rock which is formed from quartz, mica, and feldspar, which have been compressed together very tightly. It is available in a wide choice of colours: in fact, it is hard […]

Marble is a fabulous stone to use for kitchen worktops. It is not as hard as some other stones and does need a certain amount of care when in use, but most of it is common things to take care. Marble is what is known as a metamorphic rock and is formed from limestone which […]

If you are looking for quartz worktops in Welwyn Garden City you can do no better than to hop in the car and come over to Hatfield where you will find us at Marble & Granite on the Great North Road. We produce amazing worktops for your kitchen in both natural stone and quartz which […]

Whether you are planning refurbishing your kitchen from scratch, or simply changing over out-of-date kitchen cabinets and worktops, every kitchen has a combination of many different elements – appliances, cabinetry, layout, tiling, worktops, the kitchen table, and so on. Irrespective of trends, most people set out with some common objectives which is to make the […]

When it comes to choosing a kitchen worktop there is a plethora of choices of materials. However, when you start to look into it all, there is not a lot of advice on what would be the right material to select for your particular lifestyle. An interior designer based in Epping Forest found this to […]

If you are considering a kitchen refit there are an awful lot of things to consider. Not the least of these is your budget – simply how much you can afford to spend. Of course, if money is no object then there is no problem: within the limitations of how much space you have, you […]

At Marble & Granite, we are renowned for our stone worktops and vanity and bath surrounds because it is our speciality. We don’t just supply marble and granite worktops: we also make them from quartzite and limestone, which are two other natural stones, as well as quartz and sintered stone which are man-made, mainly from […]

At Marble & Granite we often get asked by our customers what is the best type of stone for a kitchen worktop, but it is not an easy question to answer. We manufacture kitchen worktops from marble and granite – as you might guess – but we also make them in limestone, quartzite, quartz, and […]