Two kitchen worktops

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Has anyone got two different worktops in their kitchen and willing to show pics to give me inspiration??

There is currently wooden worktops in the kitchen...happy for the island worktop to get sanded down and oiled but the one where the sinks at is unsalvageble...blackened and burst with water... would like laminate here....plz show me some inspiration of how it could look! Attaching pics of kitchen....the wall is getting moved where the alcove is in second pic to give more space in bathroom so for the new kitchen units I was thinking of using contrasting doors....is this w thing or would it look wierd?
Thanks!

My son had two work tops in the kitchen. Granite on the island for pastry making and laminate. Because they are so different it looks fine. I'm sure yours would too.

Sorry, I mean laminate on the work tops.

My daughter has pale coloured corian work tops and an island with Granite(great for baking as other pp mentioned) in a terracotta type colour looks really good. No pics though sorry!

It would be totally fine having a different material on the island to the rest.

My previous kitchen i had iroko and granite and it looked great. No photos though!

If you have a Belfast or undermounted sink you can't usually have laminate worktop round it. I'm not sure whether your pictures show what your kitchen is currently like or not. Laminate is not watertight where it has been cut and will be worse affected by water penetration than the current wood; it will swell and distort. We have the sink in the island and have Tristone here (it's a composite just like Corian). We have wood elsewhere.

Don’t have pics yet, but we are having white granite on the back worktop where the sink is. Then wood on the island where the hob is. We really didn’t want wood around the sink as we are too clutzy to keep it nice.

Can't find a photo but in previous kitchen we had laminate on what i call the "working" worktop (in an L shape around hob, sink etc) and then quartz on island.

I think the trick is to go completely different as you'll never get a match. We had dark laminate (a dark wenge effect) and then the quartz was very pale grey.

I’ve got two types. Wood on the island and acrylic on the rest. The thicknesses are different too but it seems to work fine.

However, looking at your kitchen I wonder if it might start looking a little busy as you’ve good all the tile colours already.

Oooh that looks lovely jojosm2....the only thing I've changed in the kitchen since moving in is those multi coloured tiles! I've replaced them with white subway ones...

Wowfudge...i didn't know about laminate not being watertight 🤥 I may have to rethink whether a new sink gets thrown in otherwise consider another material....think granite may be throw budget of course....

Thank you for help everybody...given me the confidence to definitely look into it now!

I wanted an oak island and granite worktops elsewhere, but I love to bake and need the island to be granite as it will be my prep area.

Jojo your kitchen is gorgeous! Can I ask what tiles you have in the floor please?

4years, the floor is marble. Statuario, I think.

OP, I’ve had laminate worktops in the past and no problems. I think that as long as the cut out for the sink is well sealed, laminate is a really sturdy, good value option.

I agree that laminate is a good value, hard wearing option and have had in most of the houses I've lived in, but it has a finished side and edging for the front edge only. Cutting out for an undermounted sink means the three exposed edges of the chipboard under the coating would need to have edging put on them, which is usually glued on. The alternative is a metal edging strip, but I can't see that looking good around the sink the OP has.