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  Stone floors have been around since the Pyramids were built, and yet designers still manage to create something new and fresh each season. Here are a few of the stone floor trends for 2014 that we’re loving in the Surrey Marble and Granite office.

Built after 1865, the Solent Forts Horse-Sands, No Man’s Land, St Helens and Spitbank forts were created to protect Portsmouth and it’s harbour from attack. The most likely culprit at this point would have been the french. All of the forts are built from granite and are armour plated. Ranging in size from 150-200ft diameter and costing between £123,000 and £467,000 they were an expensive and impressive defensive against potential invaders. Luckily they never had to be used in warfare. The forts had to be armoured to prevent granite they […]

At Surrey Marble and Granite, kitchen worktops are one of our specialist areas. Our team work with kitchen designers and home owners across the south of England. We’ve seen a lot of amazing kitchens this year. Below you’ll find a few of our thoughts about hot trends for kitchens in 2019. Apart from predicting that any kitchen can be enhanced by a stone worktop (not that we’re biased), we’re predicting that colour will be big. Here’s a few likely hits. Coral It’s Panetone’s Colour of the Year, which means it’s […]