spacious modern kitchen with maple cabinets and granite

Where you work isn’t just a workplace – it’s also the face of your business. Whether you’re a sole trader or the head of a multinational company, it’s important to present your best side to the world. For many businesses, that means creating an atmosphere of success and luxury. Over the last hundred years, interior design has developed enormously and yet marble and granite, as well as other stones, still play a key part in creating a deluxe style. Why marble and granite? Both marble and granite and, to an […]

    We’re well into 2017, and some of the kitchen worktop trends that started the year are already fading away. Here are 5 trends with staying power.   1. Solid coloured stone Natural stone has natural variation, so it’s rare to find a slab of granite or marble that looks entirely uniform. In fact, the variation and patterning is what makes those stones so sought after, so it’s perhaps a little ironic that solid colours are a hot trend in stone worktops. Whatever the reason, manufacturers like Consentino are […]

Crema Valencia Marble Kitchen Worktop and Wall Cladding A couple of weeks ago we installed this beautiful Crema Valencia Marble kitchen in Oxford. The client went with kitchen worktops, a wall cladding behind the cooker and a kitchen island. Crema Valencia is a dark to light orange marble from Spain. It’s vein is quite irregular, but that’s what makes the Crema Valencia a unique type of marble.