Dekton worktops in Camden

25th of 33 London boroughs, highest first

21st of 33 London boroughs, highest first

Converted or shared houses / 26.2%

A conversion usually puts the kitchen against a bedroom wall, so the sink and the machines end up where the drainage and the noise allow. Every one of those positions is a machined cut-out. The mitres and the cut-outs are itemised, because that is where the work is.

Standing before 1919 / 48.6%

Solid walls have no true line, and a long return can lose the best part of an inch across a room. That correction is machined in at the works, so the template has to catch it. That is a fabrication decision, taken before anything is cut.

The middle half of our sintered stone range runs from £250 to £300 per square metre, across 71 colours, 63 of them Dekton. In Camden, 27.3% of homes sit in council tax band F or above, among the highest in London. On rooms this size the number is set by slab yield: how many pieces come out of a slab, and whether an island needs a second one. Square metreage is the last thing we work out, not the first.

Somers Town has the highest share of post-2010 housing of the 23 Camden neighbourhoods we list, at 38%, ahead of Covent Garden (18%) and Chalk Farm (13%); Belsize Park has the lowest, at 1%. Modern carcasses are built square to a module, so a Dekton template on them goes quickly.

Across Camden's 23 neighbourhoods, the share of homes that are flats runs from 73% in Dartmouth Park to 98% in Somers Town, with Holborn (98%) and Euston (98%) next. Where the kitchen is upstairs, the thinner Dekton formats weigh less on the stairs and turn more easily on a landing.

63 Dekton and 8 Karexa sintered stone colours in the range

Tones

We cannot post sintered stone offcuts, so samples are the Worktop Worx quartz collection only.