Balham worktops
The kitchens we meet in Balham
There is no single answer to what stone worktop supply and fitting in Balham costs, and the honest version of that answer starts with the kind of kitchen involved. Whole-house terraces get the standard rear extension with a run and an island of about 2.2m, but a large share of the stock is converted flats where the kitchen has been fitted into a former reception room and is open to the living space. The 1930s mansion blocks have original narrow galleys that owners keep and simply re-top. Bring us the problem rather than the diagnosis. Working out what you have got is the first thing we do.
The original front door is narrow and the hall is often the only way in, which puts a ceiling on the longest single piece. A dark gloss in a room shaped like that will advertise every crumb and every water spot, and a mid-tone speckle is the reason another kitchen still looks clean by the evening. Priced by the square metre, lived with by the square inch.
The front door of the building sits at the top of a step off a tiled path, so the carry starts outside the building rather than at the door of the flat. Ceilings are tall and the joinery is usually painted, which is the setting where a thirty millimetre edge looks right and a slim one reads as a saving somebody made. Long narrow rooms want a pale face at the working end.
The building stock is Victorian terrace, Edwardian terrace, 1930s art deco mansion block and Flat conversion. That is why the same worktop costs differently two doors apart.
