Category Archives: Design

INTO THE BLACK: BLACK AND GOLD MARBLE-LOOK QUARTZ

Black and Gold Quartz: the effort to make a good, realistic quartz copy of Portoro [...]

SILESTONE HYBRIQ+ SUNLIT DAYS QUARTZ WORKTOPS

Sunlit days: We have samples of new quartz worktop materials from Silestone Hybriq. Here is [...]

GRANITE AND QUARTZ WORKTOPS CUSTOMER PREFERENCES

Results of our recent Instagram survey of customer preferences in granite & quartz worktops. What [...]

TEMPLATING FOR GRANITE WORKTOPS: WHAT IS A TEMPLATE?

Templating quartz and granite kitchen worktops: what is a template? Why is it important? How [...]

QUARTZ WORKTOPS NEWS: A QUICK ROUNDUP

Quartz worktops: A quick roundup of quartz worktop industry news, featuring Silestone, Caesarstone, Classic Quartz [...]

OBSIDIANA BY COMPAC: THE SHAPE OF QUARTZ TO COME?

Obsidiana Volcano Pearl by Compac - a new material with two great advantages: recycling for [...]

QUARTZ & GRANITE WORKTOPS: SOME RECENT SLABS

Recent stone slabs for quartz and granite worktops that we have received in our warehouse [...]

THREE STRIKING KITCHEN WORKTOP MATERIALS

Three striking veined kitchen worktop materials - three entirely different types of stone, each with [...]

CAN I HAVE REAL MARBLE WORKTOPS IN MY KITCHEN?

Marble worktops seem to be more popular than at any point in the last century. [...]

GREY TEXTURED QUARTZ WORKTOPS

Grey textured quartz is flavour of the month here at Affordable Granite. We take a [...]