Beddington worktops
The kitchens we meet in Beddington
Two kitchens a street apart in Beddington can turn stone worktop supply and fitting into two quite different pieces of work, which is why nothing is priced from the doorstep. Inter-war housing around Beddington Park, with the larger detached houses on the park side taking full island kitchens and the semis behind running to an L-shaped kitchen-diner after a modest rear extension. Utility rooms are common where there is a side return to build over. You can leave that to us. What we need from you is a rough idea of the size and a date that suits.
These kitchens have usually been retiled twice and knocked through once, and both of those leave marks the worktop has to deal with. Hardness and toughness are separate properties, and the surface that laughs off a knife is often the one least willing to survive an unsupported corner. Batch before colour name, because names outlive the batch they came from.
Houses of this period came with generous garages and utility rooms, so a second short run of stone is often part of the same job. These rooms take good side light from the garden, which flatters a stone with movement in it and is largely wasted on a flat single colour. Side light flatters movement and wastes a flat colour.
What the rooms sit inside, mostly, is 1930s semi, 1930s detached near the park, post-war housing and modern infill. Each carries its own carry problem before it carries a worktop.
