Chelsfield worktops
The kitchens we meet in Chelsfield
There is a reason we ask about the building before we talk about stone, and stone worktop supply and fitting in Chelsfield is a good illustration of it. The private-estate side has genuinely large kitchens with double islands or an island plus a separate prep run, walk-in pantries and butler sinks; the village end is much smaller period stock with kitchens in single-storey rear additions. Send through a photograph or two and the rough run length. We will tell you what you are probably dealing with.
Deep skirtings, a dado and a picture rail survive in the original rooms, so nothing sits flat to the wall without being cut around first. Which stone belongs on top of all that is a separate question from the building itself, and it is the one with a figure attached, because supply alone runs from £110 to £550 per square metre before a single cut has been made. What the room does to the number is most of the number.
Windows are small and set deep, which leaves the run under them dark and the reveal too deep for a plain square end. A kitchen of this size runs to two slabs almost every time, and once a second slab is in the quotation the question shifts from rate per square metre to which slab you actually want to live with. A kitchen with no window of its own needs tone rather than colour.
The stock on this patch is Chelsfield Park large detached, 1930s detached on large plot, village cottage and 1960s detached. The one you have sets the piece length before the kitchen does.
