Stone shelves cut to size in quartz, granite, Dekton or other sintered stone, from £110/m² (stone only): open kitchen shelving matched to the worktop below it, alcove shelves templated one alcove at a time, and shower and niche shelves for bathrooms. Every visible edge is polished, and the fixing is agreed before anything is cut.
Cutting a shelf is the easy part. It is a rectangle, usually, with one or two polished edges and nothing to cut out of it. What decides whether a stone shelf works is everything behind it: what the wall is made of, what is fixed into it, and how far the stone reaches out from it.
Stone is heavy for its size, and a shelf puts all of that weight, plus whatever is stacked on it, onto a few fixings at the back. Solid masonry takes concealed rods or brackets well. A stud wall needs timber noggins in the right place before the plasterboard goes on. Plasterboard on its own will not carry a stone shelf, whatever the fixing packet says, so that conversation happens first.
The second thing is the edge. A shelf is seen from below, from the side and at eye level, which is more of it than anyone sees of a worktop. The front edge, both ends where they show and the underside arris are profiled and polished, because that is exactly where the eye goes.
Fitted 5–10 working days from template. The payment stages are set out on your quote.
Which shelf
The same slab cut for different walls. The room decides the material and the wall decides the fixing.
Shelves above the worktop in the same stone, so the run reads as one surface from the counter to the wall cupboards. Cut at the same time as the worktop, from the same slab run, so the colour and the scale of the pattern match under your own lights.
No visible bracket: the stone sits on steel rods or a concealed bracket set into the wall, with matching holes or a slot machined into the back edge. It is the cleanest look and the most demanding fixing, so it suits solid masonry or a stud wall prepared for it.
Visible brackets carry the stone from beneath. Less fuss over the wall, and the right choice where the shelf is deep, long or going to hold something heavy. The brackets are yours to choose; we drill or rebate the stone to suit them if they need it.
Either side of a chimney breast, sitting on bearers or let into the side walls. Alcoves are rarely square and never identical, so each one is templated on its own and the shelves are cut to the walls they are going between, not to a single measurement.
A shelf inside a tiled niche or across a shower corner, where water sits on it every day. Quartz and sintered stone suit it because neither needs sealing. A vanity top with a matching shelf beside it is covered on the bathroom worktops page.
A shelf or ledge above a cooker gets heat rising onto its underside. Quartz contains resin and is not the stone for sustained heat, so above a range the conversation is about sintered stone or granite, and about clearance, before it is about colour.
Choosing the stone
Supply rates are read from our catalogue and cover the stone only. Fabrication, edge polishing, any slots or drilling and fitting are quoted as their own lines.
| Material | Colours | Supply from | On a shelf |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quartz | 69 | £130/m² | Kitchen and bathroom shelves away from strong heat. No sealing, the widest colour range, and the natural choice for a shelf that matches a quartz worktop. |
| Granite | 45 | £121/m² | A shelf that should read as natural stone, and one near warmth, which granite tolerates. Porous, so it is sealed before use, which matters on a shower shelf. |
| Dekton | 63 | £110/m² | Shelves near heat or in strong sunlight, and wet areas where nothing should need sealing. Brittle at a thin unsupported edge, so the fixing is not skimped. |
| Sintered stone | 8 | £280/m² | Our own sintered stone range. No sealing, stable near heat and in sun, and a good match where the worktop below is the same stone. |
Free samples are posted from the Worktop Worx quartz collection, up to four at a time. Other quartz, granite and sintered stone are judged from the slab.
What is involved
The fixing comes before the cutting, because a slot or a hole in the wrong place cannot be put back.
Masonry, stud or something else, and whether the shelf holds a few jars or a stack of plates. That settles floating or bracketed, the depth that is sensible, and whether the wall needs work by your builder before we template.
On a stud wall, noggins go in where the fixings will land, before it is boarded or tiled. In a bathroom, the niche is formed and tiled to its finished size. That is building work, so it is done by your builder or tiler, not by us.
Taken once the walls are finished, so the shelf is cut to the real alcove or niche rather than a drawing of it. Walls in older houses lean and alcoves taper, and a shelf that is cut square to an out-of-square space shows a gap at one end.
In our own workshop: cut to the template, any rod holes or rear slot machined for a floating fixing, and every visible edge profiled and polished, including the underside of the front edge where the eye catches it.
Set level along its length and across its depth, bedded onto its fixings and sealed at the wall where water could get in behind it. A run of shelves is lined up to each other as well as to the spirit level.
The parts that decide it
A shelf looks simple, which is why the details that matter are easy to miss.
Stone is strong in itself. What fails is the fixing pulling out of the wall, or a stud wall flexing under the load. Concealed rods want solid masonry or timber behind them; plasterboard alone will not hold stone, and we will not fix a shelf to it.
Every extra centimetre the shelf reaches out from the wall adds leverage on the fixing at the back. A shallow shelf on concealed rods is straightforward; a deep one, or one that will hold heavy things, is a job for brackets underneath.
A 20mm shelf looks light and suits open kitchen shelving. A 30mm shelf looks more substantial. A mitred front edge builds a thicker looking face from a thinner slab, which gives a shelf visual weight without the full weight of a thick piece on the wall.
Shelves ordered with the worktop come from the same slab run, so they match. Ordered later, engineered stone may have changed batch and granite will be a different slab, so expect a close relative rather than a twin. On a wall directly above the worktop, that difference shows.
A shelf is small enough to come out of the leftover from a kitchen job or from remnant stock on the rack, which can put a stone you like within reach. The piece is finite, though, so decide on shelves while the offcut still exists rather than after it has gone.
Above a hob or range, heat rises onto the underside of the shelf for as long as the cooker is on. Quartz is not the stone for that position; sintered stone and granite cope with heat better, and the clearance above the cooker is set by the appliance, not by us.
It happens: the wall that looked solid is a stud partition, and the studs are not where the shelf needs them. There are three ways forward and we will say which suits the room. Your builder opens the wall and adds noggins; the shelf goes on visible brackets fixed into the studs that are there; or the shelf moves to a wall that can carry it. What we will not do is fix stone to plasterboard with cavity fixings and leave, because the shelf that comes down is the one somebody has just filled.
Before we template
Most of the first list is the wall. It is on this page because the stone cannot make up for any of it.
Questions
If yours is not here, ring and ask. You will get a straight answer rather than a call-back from a salesperson.
Yes. Ordered with the worktop, the shelves come from the same slab run and match it. Ordered later, quartz and sintered stone may have changed batch and granite will be a different slab, so they will be a close relative rather than a twin. Bring us the name of the worktop and we will tell you what is still available.
The stone is priced by the square metre, from £110 to £550 across the surfaces we hold. A shelf 1.2m long and 0.25m deep is 0.3m², so at the quartz entry rate of £130/m² the stone alone is about £39. On a piece this small, cutting, edge polishing, any slots for floating fixings and fitting are the larger part of the price, and each is quoted as its own line.
Yes, on concealed steel rods or a hidden bracket set into the wall, with matching holes or a slot machined into the back of the stone. It needs solid masonry or a stud wall with timber in the right place. Deep shelves and shelves that will carry heavy things are better on brackets underneath.
Not on plasterboard alone. Stone is heavy, and cavity fixings in board are not a sensible way to carry it. The shelf has to fix into masonry or into timber behind the board, which on a stud wall means noggins added by your builder before the wall is finished.
20mm suits open kitchen shelving and looks light on the wall. 30mm looks more substantial and suits alcoves. A mitred front edge gives a thinner shelf the look of a thick one, which keeps the weight on the wall down.
Quartz or sintered stone, because neither needs sealing and water sits on a shower shelf every day. Granite works, but it is porous and has to be sealed and kept sealed. Whichever it is, the shelf is set with a slight fall so water runs off rather than pooling.
Not in quartz, which contains resin and is not made for sustained heat from below. Sintered stone or granite is the place to start, and the clearance above the hob or range is set by the appliance maker. Tell us it is going above a cooker when you ask for a quote, because it changes the material first.
Where we work
We template and fit across Greater London and out into Essex, Hertfordshire, Surrey, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire. The stone is cut in our workshop and fitted by our own installers, wherever the job is.
Next
Every job runs through more than one of these. Follow the thread rather than guessing which order things go in.
Table tops, stairs, shelves, boards and more, cut from the same stone.
Read the detailVanity tops, shelves and window returns, cut to bathroom depths.
Cut from the same slab run as your worktop, so the match is real.
Read the detailWorth reading
The questions that come up most, answered in full rather than in a sentence.
What the two standard thicknesses actually change, what they do not (strength, mostly), and why the honest deciding factors are weight, the carry into your kitchen and how you want the edge to read.
Read the guideThe edge is the part of the worktop you touch every day and the detail that dates a kitchen fastest. What the common profiles are, what each costs you in labour, and how to pick.
Read the guideThe best stone for an internal window sill is usually the one your worktop is made of, cut from the same batch at the same template visit. Quartz suits most kitchens and bathrooms, granite suits a sill you will seal, and a notched sill sits neatly inside the reveal.
Read the guideEvery one of these is on our Google profile under the reviewer’s own name. Nothing here is written by us, and the link goes straight to the source.
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“I am really happy with the work! He fitted my kitchen granite worktop really nicely and got the job done on time, just as promised. He was friendly, professional, and made sure everything was done the way I wanted. Would definitely recommend Karam to anyone looking for a great job!”
“We recently had our kitchen worktops supplied and fitted by Worktop WorX using Laurent Gold sintered stone, and we couldn’t be happier with the result. The finish, quality, and attention to detail were outstanding from start to finish. Karem was incredibly helpful throughout the whole process professional, knowledgeable, and always available to answer…”
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“I used Karem’s services 5 years ago for purchasing and fitting the quartz worktop in my then brand new kitchen. The price was reasonable and the service reliable and spot on, no delays in fitting, misunderstanding or excuses. I recommended him to a friend, who also used his services and they were happy too! If I need to order new kitchen work top again,…”
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Next step
A photograph of the wall or alcove with rough dimensions, what it is built from if you know, and the worktop you want to match is enough to start. The quote costs nothing.