Absolutely fabulous granite kitchen worktops in Crawley

Now all the festive celebrations have quietened and we enter a new decade, you may be ready to ring in the changes by updating your kitchen, or to install the perfect one for a new home. This is the ideal opportunity to create a kitchen space which will not only look stunning but will also be compatible with your living style. The Surrey based stone fabricators Affordable Granite supply and install absolutely fabulous granite kitchen worktops in Crawley, providing impartial advice to ensure you make the right choice for your design scheme.

Why choose granite over other work surfaces? This is a prestige stone with an elegant and luxurious visual affect, with hard-wearing properties making it an ideal platform for food preparation and casual dining in which is commonly a high-activity zone. Although there is a degree of porosity, the sealing process during fabrication provides protection from staining, provided any spillages are not left to sit on the worktop. Re-sealing is a simple process which can easily be carried out in the home when required.

Granite is a natural rock which has cooled from molten lava and formed slowly over time beneath the Earth and is a combination of minerals such as quartz, feldspar, and mica. The mineral content and therefore the visual affect is dependant on the quarry from which it has been extracted, resulting in a wide hue of colours and patterns. As each slab of stone is unique, often with a difference of shade and veining even within the same length, Affordable Granite recommend that customers visit their Surrey workshops to ensure the stone selected will meet all aspirations for the new kitchen.

Installing new granite kitchen countertops in your Crawley kitchen is a long-term investment and decisions shouldn't be made in haste. Providing a basic plan and mood board with magazine cuttings, fabric swatches or colour cards doesn't require interior design expertise and will assist the Affordable Granite team in advising on the options available within your specified budget.

Quality is assured throughout, with all work completed by highly skilled in-house

craftsman, ensuring you have a fabulous kitchen to be proud of for many years to come.  Call Affordable Granite today on 01293 863992 to find out more.

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Sheer perfection with quartz kitchen worktops in Sussex

Ensuring that your quartz kitchen worktops in Sussex will be perfect and meet all expectations requires careful planning together with the skills of a reputable stone fabricator and installer. Affordable Granite provide professional impartial advice helping you to make the right decisions to achieve the best design and functional layout for your kitchen space.

Gaining momentum in the popularity rating, quartz kitchen work surfaces are frequently chosen over the variety of natural stones such as granite and marble, due to the superior qualities of non-porosity and extensive colour range. Although the aesthetics may mimic the visual affects created by nature, quartz is actually an engineered stone which is produced with advanced technology. The replication of shade and fluidity of pattern throughout the slabs can easily be mistaken for marble or granite, introducing stunning visual appeal with the added benefit of a quartz kitchen countertop which requires no protective sealant.

A hygienic food preparation surface is an essential commodity in the kitchen zone and the dense concentration of quartz combined with a smaller percentage of resin binders, provides a worktop which is resistant to bacterial growth and the harbouring of germs. This man-made stone is extremely family-friendly and will withstand all the demands of constant use and high-activity, retaining the original luminosity with easy maintenance and a simple cleaning regime.

You may be well aware that cheaper worktop materials such as laminates will need to replaced in time and can be a false economy when priced against quartz kitchen worktops which have far greater longevity and durability. Quality quartz can be installed to the highest specifications without busting your budget.  Affordable Granite will discuss the role you want your new kitchen to play which will be compatible with your lifestyle. Working with your vision, a show-stopping space can be created by the dedicated in-house team of craftsmen, proving that perfection is possible.  Call us today on 01293 863992

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Time to shine with granite kitchen worktops in Sussex

If your kitchen is in need of an upgrade and you want to introduce a stunning visual affect with the additional benefit of practicality, this is the time to shine by installing granite kitchen worktops in Sussex, with the assistance of Affordable Granite, the local specialist in stone work surface fabrication and installation. 

Why choose granite? For visual affect, granite countertops have outstanding natural beauty and each slab is a reflection of the mineral content which has formed over time from molten magma deep within the Earth's crust. The characteristics and colours are dependent on the global source from which the rock has been extracted. Even within the same slab the uniqueness can be evident from the variations of pattern flow and shading, appealing to those who prefer originality over a man-made engineered stone such as quartz.

The growing popularity of granite kitchen worktops in Sussex however goes beyond beauty. Granite is an extremely tough and durable stone, with a hardness rating higher than that of marble, making this an ideal surface for constant use, withstanding knocks and with a resistance to scratches. With the application of a penetrative sealant during the fabrication process, providing spillages such as oil-based or acidic liquids are not left to sit on the surface, granite worktops are impervious to stains. Applying a recommended sealant at home from time to time is a simple process which will retain the low porosity and pristine appearance.

Granite is polished professionally in Affordable Granite's Surrey workshops, giving an elegant luminosity. The paler shades of granite provide an illusion of space in the smaller kitchen and the colour range gives a wide scope for an interior design scheme which creates a sense of fusion within an open-plan living/kitchen area.

Granite kitchen worktops are considered to increase buyer appeal, with a return on the initial investment should you move on in the future.  

Affordable Granite are on hand to provide advice on choosing the stone which will meet both your aspirations and available budget, with quality assured throughout the project. A dedicated team of time-served experienced stone masons, templaters and installers will ensure you have a kitchen that you and others will fall in love with.  Call us today on 01293 863992

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