kitchen work top survey!!!

[mads1]

Hi, please can you help me decide which worktop I should go for in my new kitchen.
DH & I are in the process of renovating a house and therefore are starting the kitchen from scratch. We have always thought we would use corian but have just been told recently that this can scrath very easily. Is this true? What about stainless steel, wood, granite.....?

Can I please ask.... what work surfaces you have and how easy they are to maintain. Also which ones do you think last better.

I don't like black granite purely because everyone I know has it. And matching brown leather sofas.

Buy the Kashmir gold granite. It's boss.

eeeek mumbles I've got a leather sofa - but cream not brown though it's a bit grubby so more like grey.
Gold granite? With cream-and-black units?

It's not like glittery gold, it's kind of light fudge colour with bits in. Look in John Lewis.

Ok, you're allowed a cream sofa.

Is black granite everywhere these days. There was a dark blue one that was also lovely but I thought it seemed less smart. Arrgh. Too many decisions.

that is the other problem - black worktops are everywhere so i really want not black. Fudge sounds good though....

Fudge sounds like beige to me.

Actually after a weekend of heated debate we have decided not to go for cream or black, -we're going for grey instead. Nice compromise. Hope it doesn't look too awful.

i have 'getacore'. price and quality wise it's somewhere between laminate and granite. i've had it about 18 months and absolutely love it. it doesn't stain or scratch or mark (so far!); the sink unit is all part of the single unit so doesn't get any messy stuck bits. well worth looking at imo.

We have grey speckly Corian. It is fab

Highlander - that's exactly what we're going to go for (well probably) so...how long have you had it? And is it scratched? Does it mark/burn/stain?