Worth spending more on a stone top?

[Postmanbear]

We are planning on having our utility room done, it’s approx 2.5m x 3m. We need a length of worktop which will be 1.8m long with a sink hole cut out. We have decided to go with DIY kitchens for the units but do you think it is worth going for the more expensive worktop? I’m being quoted £100 v £1500 so it’s a major difference. Will it make the room look more expensive or will it look weird having cheap units and expensive top?
Can anyone recommend a stone mason in the East Midlands?
Thanks

What kind of worktop are you looking at? I'm having the same dilemma. The price difference is just crazy

Probably a lighter granite or quartz, I have black granite in the kitchen and love it but I didn’t pay for it! Never realised how expensive it was. But if I go for a laminate top I have to get a sink that sits on top which I think makes it look cheaper too.

Yep my issue is the same reason, to have curved ends and the sink cut out. I do think it's worth it but I'm hoping someone could suggest a cheaper material that can be cut!

I feel quite the opposite, I would absolutely have a cheaper (as long as it’s not because it’s an absolutely shoddy cheap work top) in a utility room than stone. For me a utility room is very much a functioning room and I wouldn’t want to have to worry about damaging the stone.
Unless the budget wasn’t really an issue, I’d go laminate.

There’s a massive price difference between high end and low end granite. Ask your kitchen supplier about their cheapest materials. If you’re willing to wait and you aren’t picky, they may even be able to get you an offcut.

Get the one you really want. You won't regret it and it will be there for years so u will get the money out of it.

I think it would be worth it for the kitchen, but is it really worth it for the utility room? We have proper granite worktops in the kitchen, but cheaper (but still decent looking) Ikea ones for the utility room. After all, we're not likely to be putting pans straight from the oven in there so it doesn't need to be so heat proof.

Oh sorry totally missed that it's just for the utility- is it completely separate from the kitchen? I don't think I'd spend the extra then.

Our utility is going to be completely separate and I'm going for the cheaper because I don't want to worry about damage like pp said

Maybe I should just go for laminate. Is there different quality laminates? The ones I saw on display at DIY kitchens looked cheap.

We have solid oak in the kitchen and Ikea oak effect in the utility room and I have to say the Ikea stuff is outstanding in looks and quality for the price. We have the one called Ekbacken.
I would say one thing that makes a difference to how expensive the worktops look is having square edges instead of rounded ones that you generally associate with laminate. Minor difference really but IMO makes a huge difference to making it look a bit more ‘real’

I wouldn’t bother just for the utility. We do have quartz in ours but only because we were getting it for the kitchen at the same time so a bit extra didn’t particularly affect the cost. If I’d been doing them separately I wouldn’t have bothered though. You can get sone great laminates now and a utility really doesn’t need to look high end.

We got a compact laminate in our new kitchen, I love it. Ours is this one.

It's a bollocks to cut though, use lots of blades as it's so hard

Thank you for the suggestions, I’ll check out Ikea and the compact laminates which looks great! I like the wood look but was put off with the maintenance so wood effect might work well.

ffsnosexallowed Where is this compact laminate from? looks amazing.