Eco-friendly kitchen features bright-red worktop

Granite Transformations has supplied and installed a bright-red worktop for a kitchen in a period home in Hampshire.

The kitchen also has a 'green' theme as the company's Trend G material is largely made from post-consumer recycled glass.

This diamond-polished, hardwearing surface is an eco-friendly worktop, according to the company.

The Trend G Recycled worktop material, launched earlier this year, is composed of tempered glass chips, in this instance 72 per cent recycled, plus quartz and stone fragments for textural variety, all bound together with high-performance polyester resin, which contains red pigments for the background shade.

Being lighter than granite slabs or engineered stone, it fits directly on top of existing worktops, without extra reinforcement, and has been tested to withstand impacts, abrasion, heat and ultraviolet exposure, while the added polymer creates a stain-resistant surface.

The bold, bright colour of Cristallino Red features flecks of silver.

Off-the-shelf units for the kitchen were sourced from a local stockist and the doors are finished in a blue-grey lacquer.

The layout also features terracotta floor tiles.

There are Franke undermounted sinks and a chrome monobloc mixer tap with separate sprayhead, as well as a built-in cooker and hob.

The 4.4m2 worktop was fabricated and fitted by local Granite Transformations specialist Rob Douthwaite and his team.

It was installed over a marine ply surface provided by the kitchen fitters and two people were needed to manoeuvre the main 2 x 1.2m single-piece, L-shaped section into place.

Since Trend G is produced in large 3 x 1.2m slabs, there are minimal joints, with seamless, bonded 40mm edges contributing to the finish.

Splashbacks in the same Cristallino Red have been added to protect the walls from food splatters and these have been extended onto the window sill and heightened to hood level above the gas hob.

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