Current trends in Granite worktops and kitchens.

Looking through the latest design magazines there seems to be quite a retro theme going on in kitchens with curves making a big appearance. Curve fronted drawer units, curved ends to peninsulars and islands, even large curved handles. The beauty of granite is that you can match these curves easily in the worktops.

The contemporary/retro theme continues through into colour and texture with the gloss fronted cabinets side by side with the strong grain of dark Zebrano wood. There are a lot of warm rich woods such as Zebrano, Walnut or Cherry available at the moment of ten with the grain horizontal to give a contemporary flavour. The current trend is to mix and match dark with light, using wood side by side with high gloss white doors. These darker woods are beautifully contrasted against really light worktops like Kashmir White. If however you have a smaller kitchen and don't have the room to mix and match you might choose a light reflecting white gloss door throughout and team that with a Tan Brown granite worktop to add richness, warmth and texture!

There are still a lot of coloured kitchens around and if you are looking for something to really make a style statement how about high gloss Aubergine cabinets these will look great with Kashmir White worktops. One of the key looks for now is contrasting plain colour units with white to create a really strong contrast and you can continue this into the worktops with a plain black granite such as Nero Assoluto or to compliment your stainless steel appliances and add some texture what about choosing Steel Grey granite worktops.

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