Brixton worktops
The kitchens we meet in Brixton
What makes stone worktop supply and fitting in Brixton worth thinking about properly is that the same worktop behaves very differently depending on what it is being fitted around. Estate flats and above-shop conversions dominate, with kitchens of 6 to 9 square metres taking a run of 2.4m to 3m plus a return, and services fixed where the block was built. Victorian terraces on the streets off Coldharbour Lane take a rear kitchen-diner with a peninsula rather than a full island. The quote is free, so finding out where you stand costs you nothing at all.
Ceilings are generous and the rooms are narrow, so the runs are long, the aisle is tight and there is nowhere to stand a slab on edge. North light and afternoon light read a surface differently, so a sample belongs in the corner that gets the worst of it rather than the best. Yield is the word behind most quotations people did not expect.
The bay at the front and the back addition at the rear were built to different standards, and the kitchen is nearly always in the weaker of the two. The kitchen in one of these sits in the back addition and takes its daylight from one end, so the working half of the run is the darker half and a pale stone with a honed or matt face does more there than any colour with depth in it. A tall room carries a thick edge; a low one does not.
What the street keeps repeating is Victorian terrace, Above-shop flat, Large postwar estate and Interwar block. Each carries its own carry problem before it carries a worktop.
