Wimbledon Village worktops
The kitchens we meet in Wimbledon Village
The worktop jobs we do in Wimbledon Village follow the same process every time, and it is the kitchen rather than the process that decides how the day actually goes. Detached houses off the Common and up the hill run to full architect-drawn kitchens: a large centre island, a separate prep or pantry run, and often a second slab area in a utility or boot room. The rooms take islands of 3.2m and over, and the same block of stone can be carried up the wall behind the hob. Ring us with the rough dimensions and we will tell you what is likely, then confirm it properly at the Wimbledon Village survey.
Ceilings are high enough that the wall units sit low against them, which leaves a tall band of wall above the worktop doing nothing. Veining is the part people pick from a photograph and then meet at full size, running across a slab at a scale no postcard has ever managed to convey. Thickness changes the look and the figure in the same breath.
The stair to the lower ground floor has a turn at the bottom and a low soffit above it, and both are measured before anything is nested. There is usually an island, and the island takes the liveliest part of the stone while the perimeter is allowed to stay quiet, which is a decision made at the slab rather than on paper. Four visible edges make the profile part of the design.
What the kitchens here mostly sit in is Georgian cottage, Large Victorian villa, Arts and Crafts detached and Interwar gated detached. They fail in different places, which is why the survey looks at different things.
