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While designing your kitchen benchtop, you need to be wary about the edges and joins that will be coming up when erecting your beautiful kitchen benchtop. Remember too many edges and joins will diminish the overall look of your benchtop and also would decrease its usability. So, it’s important that the edges and joins in your bench-top are minimal so that it adds beauty and stands out beautiful in your kitchen and at the same time you get a highly usable kitchen benchtop. Often, we give enough consideration to aspects like choosing the material, design, colour of a bench-top, but overlook all together regarding benchtop edges and joins.
Edges in Your Kitchen Benchtop
As per your benchtop material selection, you will get choices for selecting edge profiles. When selecting a laminate benchtop, you will be either getting post-formed or square edges. Post-formed edges normally come in half rounded or totally rounded. Many of the laminate benchtop you get in the market today come with half rounded edges. However, to obtain a modest look, a square edge is advised by numerous kitchen designers. The disadvantage of displaying the edge is that it becomes easily noticeable; however, a smart kitchen cabinet maker can almost make invisible edges.
When we talk about timber benchtop, they can be easily made with any type of edge profile. Pencil like square edges you can have in your timber benchtop, which will have slightly rounded softened top and bottom edges. Rounded edges are more in fashion; however, period styled kitchens normally have more intricately designed ogee edges.
You get rounded, square or bevelled edges in a granite benchtop. Typically, on square edged granite benchtop, pencil edging is normally done in order to make them safer and soften their look. When you go for more tough and robust engineered stone, particularly Corian, it can have an array of edges. A front can be added for giving more thickness to the benchtop than usual. Remember, the procedure is exactly the same to add the front to a double thick granite benchtop, but the difference is that on a granite benchtop the joint on the edge is easily noticeable whereas on engineered benchtop, it is invisible or very difficult to notice.
Yes, looks play an important role when selecting a benchtop edge profile, but don’t overlook its functionality. For instance: It can be dangerous to have a square bottom edge, particularly when you have small active kids in your home. So, investing in a fully rounded edge aids in avoiding the likelihood of a severe head injury.
Joins in Your Kitchen Benchtop
Often, a kitchen benchtop have to be installed into two or more walls, and so they are to be joined together. You can have adjoined/bordered joints, but mitred joints are largely used. As walls are not upright in all the cases, and so to execute it is not a simple job. If the walls aren’t square, the benchtop needs to be joined and installed so that it gets pretty tight joints and be integrated neatly adjacent to the walls. When you select engineered benchtop, particularly material like Corian, you will get a flawless appearance. In laminate, timber and granite, usually joins can be noticeable; however, a crafty professional can almost make very tight joints, which can be hardly detected from your overall kitchen interiors.
Now, you know how to get that kitchen benchtop of your dreams! When you hire a professional skilled installer, he can almost set-up your kitchen benchtop with perfection without many easily noticeable edges and joins. All the best for your kitchen renovation work.
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Here below are listed some of the crucial points that you need to keep in mind while purchasing your kitchen benchtop.
The various types of benchtops are Laminate, Granite, Quartz and Ceasar Stone. Custom benchtops allow you to build according to your specific requirements to aid in creating the perfect look that will compliment the design and make of the kitchen.
Laminated Benchtops
Pros: A laminated benchtop is proven cost effective. Laminated is the most practical and most preferred choice. It is usually sold by the meter and can be cut and installed to fit the kitchen. Also, it can be installed quickly compared to other benchtops. It is easy to clean, lightweight and highly resistant from stains and scratches.
Cons: It is not durable and has an estimated life span of ten years at the most. It is also vulnerable to cuts and heats meaning you can’t place any hot pot or pan directly on it. If it gets chipped or cracked it cannot be repaired.
Ready Made Benchtops
Pros: Whether it is made from Quartz or Ceasar Stone, it is considered the practical choice when it comes to durability and longer life span. The heavy duty material is a sure guarantee that it is heat resistant, easy to clean and maintain and can be repaired easily if there are accidental cracks and chips.
Cons: Because of the durable material it is very costly and usually takes time to order and ship the needed material to build one.
Paradise kitchen understands the need for having perfect kitchen benchtops that will make a good statement of style and elegance. They can provide a wide variety of styles and designs that carry the essential aesthetics of a good benchtop to answer all the needs for convenience and efficiency.
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]]>To have a stunning and useful kitchen, which is usually termed to be the center of your home is a dream that every home owner has. Certainly kitchen benchtops and fixtures play a vital part when it comes to revamping your kitchen fully. Two of the most common options that are available in the market currently are Caesar Stone and Laminates. We can hereby go through the advantages and drawbacks for each of them briefly.
Laminates: Laminated Benchtops are very useful as it is easy to maintain and very affordable, can easily fit even if you have a narrow budget. On the other hand marble, granite or any stone will be very dear when it comes to costing. Laminated Benchtops are adjustable and is available in varied designs, finishes and colours. The drawback of laminated benchtop is that it is not scratch resistant and at the same time you must be very careful using it as you can’t afford to keep anything hot on it.
Caesar Stone: Ceasar stone, being more reliable and almost blemish resistant, makes it easier to be preserved using any of the cleaning products that are meant for kitchen benchtops. Another plus point is that Caesar Stone benchtops are scratch and mold resistant, which is the usual concern with modern kitchen sinks.
Ceasar stone is tough, refined and a stone that is processed by humans. It is fabricated with the amalgamation of natural quartz, polymer resins and pigments which makes it glossy, smooth and robust than natural stone. It is many times less absorbent than both granite and marble. It is also well liked for designing kitchen benchtops and gives an exotic feel. Furthermore, Caesar Stone benchtops come in diverse colours, shapes and designs, which mean that you can integrate these benchtops in whatsoever look you want it to be.
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