5 beautiful ways to style a kitchen with a white marble worktop
A pristine white marble worktop is the ultimate style statement instantly making your kitchen look bigger, brighter, cleaner and more appealing. With such a neutral colour at the heart of your kitchen, it can be difficult to know which direction to take for the rest of the room.
The kitchen is the dominant feature for any contemporary home so the pressure is on to get the styling of your kitchen right. It’s a central place where we welcome friends, gather with family and relax on our own at all times of the day so your kitchen decor must serve many purposes.
With a white marble worktop in place, things are already off to a great start. Your kitchen worktop is the highlight of the room. It sets the tone for the rest of the space because it draws the eye towards it as you enter.
A white marble kitchen worktop is guaranteed to give the room a stunning, high end aesthetic so let’s take a look at how you can decorate the rest of your kitchen to create a dazzling space.
5 beautiful ways to style a kitchen with a white marble worktop
Which type of white marble kitchen worktop?
When choosing a marble worktop for your kitchen it’s crucial to think carefully about what you need your marble countertop to do. Throughout history marble has been the stone of choice for luxurious structures of great importance.
It’s a magnificent natural stone but marble does have weaknesses. When you mix them with the multiple functions of a kitchen countertop these drawbacks can spell disaster so it’s critical you ensure your kitchen worktop is a quartz marble worktop.
Here’s why:
Marble worktops for the kitchen
The prime functions of a kitchen countertop involve lots of liquids, cutting, hot equipment, scrapes and knocks. None of these functions are compatible with marble. Marble is a porous stone so when faced with the many spills that occur every time you cook, a marble countertop will absorb them all.
Worse still, every knock, drop and scratch will leave your countertop damaged whilst alkaline or acidic foods as well as heat are out of the question. This is obviously completely unacceptable for a kitchen countertop so marble effect worktops in quartz were developed to allow you to obtain the striking look of marble stone without the practical issues.
Quartz is a superior material manufactured from around 93% natural quartz stone. Quartz worktops are premium countertops sought after for their highly resistant surface and dazzling aesthetic.
A marble quartz worktop is extremely hardwearing. It won’t absorb spills and is resistant to heat as well as scratches.
White quartz marble worktops
White marble effect quartz worktops look exactly the same as white marble stone. One of the reasons quartz worktops are so popular is because it’s impossible to tell a quartz worktop and a natural stone worktop apart – even experts find it difficult. You’ll still have the phenomenal grey-black veining against a silky white background that makes marble so special but this quartz countertop won’t cause you problems once you start using it.
5 ways to style your kitchen
So let’s think about how to use colour with your white marble kitchen countertop to create a sophisticated look. It’s easy to get colour wrong so working from your white worktop out, let’s explore how to use colour on your walls, cabinets, furnishings and floors using some simple rules.
1. Stay neutral: You don’t have to make a statement with colour. Varying the tone of white as well as cream on your cabinets and walls whilst adding layers of woods and metals in warm tones allows you to keep the look neutral without your kitchen feeling cold and impersonal.
Choose wood in a mid-brown tone for warmth and texture or light coloured wood for a tranquil Scandi feel. Add further texture with stone flooring and natural materials.
Warm metals such as brass will complete the look for a country-style kitchen in a divine neutral tone. For a more contemporary look go for handleless cabinets or silver metallics.
2. Monochrome: Alternatively, look to black for a striking neutral look. Use black cabinets under the worktop or a black wall to make an elegant statement. Add warm woods, key statement black furnishings and black accessories to finish the look. For a stronger statement go for all black cabinets or multiple walls.
3. Bold colours: With a white worktop as its focal point, your kitchen can stand up to strong colour. For a bold look try classic red, blue or yellow in muted or darker shades or get experimental with patterns on the walls.
White can take any colour if you stick to statement pieces so think about using colour on the splashback, walls, lower cabinets or just one statement wall and you can’t go wrong. Choose key furnishings that complement both colours to personalise the look.
4. Darker colour: Darker shades will add a layer of refinement to your kitchen decor. Use a darker colour on your lower cabinets then if you wish, you could choose a lighter shade for the cabinets above.
For a stronger look repeat the darker colour on the top cabinets, a statement wall or numerous walls. Grey or blue are popular darker colours for the kitchen that come in a huge variety of shades and always look elegant.
5. Using grey on the cabinets below your white marble kitchen countertop is a popular way to add pastel shades without making the look too sugary-sweet. Alternatively, use a pastel colour on the cabinets below the worktop and keep the walls a shade of white or cream.
For pastel walls, both pastel or grey cabinets underneath the worktop will work equally well.
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