Purley worktops
The kitchens we meet in Purley
The useful questions about worktop jobs in Purley are really questions about the kitchen itself, which is where any sensible answer has to start. Big detached houses on the hills with substantial kitchens, frequently a full-width rear extension, an island over 3m and a separate utility and pantry. The Woodcote and Webb Estate houses are larger still, with kitchens designed alongside boot rooms and back stairs. The town-centre flats are a different job entirely with 2.4m galleys. The tape measure decides it, not the description above, and not anything anybody says over the telephone.
The window over the sink sits at about worktop height, so the run is set out around the sill and the reveal rather than under them. Colour behaves differently in a room like that, which is why a sample sits on the units for a week and gets judged under the lights that will be on when somebody is cooking. Quartz, granite and sintered stone answer three different rooms.
Ceilings are lower here than in the terraces of fifty years earlier, so wall units and a full-height panel compete for the same band of wall. Original tiling and painted timber sit more comfortably beside a warm stone than a cool grey, and cool grey is the choice most often regretted in a room of this period. At four metres a stone is a tone rather than a pattern.
The stock on this patch is large inter-war detached, Edwardian Webb Estate house, 1960s-80s flats and gated modern development. Which one you have changes the order of the day more than the design does.
