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How to Make Sustainable Choices for Your Home's Surfaces
Treat your home to durable surfaces that not only make a big statement, but also have less impact on the environment
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When it comes to planning a new kitchen, robust surfaces that create a style statement are likely to be at the top of your priority list. So wouldn’t it be great to know that you can choose a worktop with all these benefits and do your bit for the environment at the same time? Introducing Cosentino’s innovative generation of surfaces – the Silestone Loft range – that combine an ever-timeless industrial aesthetic with a sustainable manufacturing process, ensuring it’s the very best for your home and the planet.
Read on to discover how savvy surface choices can make all the difference to the way you live, ensuring the busiest room in your home functions efficiently and ecologically.
Read on to discover how savvy surface choices can make all the difference to the way you live, ensuring the busiest room in your home functions efficiently and ecologically.
Choose a surface that has longevity
Kitchens are one of the most expensive rooms in the home to kit out, so it’s no surprise that you’ll want to guarantee your key design elements in the space are going to stand the test of time and won’t need replacing a few years down the line.
Surfaces are definitely the work horse of any kitchen, feeling the full force of any activity and action in a cooking space, so it’s crucial to choose durable, robust finishes that are built to last. These innovative surfaces are incredibly strong and resistant, ensuring an ultra-functional work zone that will last for decades.
Style tip: Opt for an adaptable matt grey worktop, similar to a delicate cement tone, and you’ll find it easy to incorporate with any style or scheme.
Kitchens are one of the most expensive rooms in the home to kit out, so it’s no surprise that you’ll want to guarantee your key design elements in the space are going to stand the test of time and won’t need replacing a few years down the line.
Surfaces are definitely the work horse of any kitchen, feeling the full force of any activity and action in a cooking space, so it’s crucial to choose durable, robust finishes that are built to last. These innovative surfaces are incredibly strong and resistant, ensuring an ultra-functional work zone that will last for decades.
Style tip: Opt for an adaptable matt grey worktop, similar to a delicate cement tone, and you’ll find it easy to incorporate with any style or scheme.
Go for recycled materials
If you’ve already been doing your bit for the environment by opting for ethical and eco-friendly furniture, textiles and accessories, then you’ll be pleased to know you can go one step further and choose environmentally responsible work surfaces too.
Using HybriQ+ Technology that involves a hybrid formula of minerals and recycled glass, these surfaces offer a green option, and also boast a manufacturing process that’s fuelled by renewable energy and 98% recycled water.
Top tip: Make steps towards a greener lifestyle by encouraging everyone in the household to recycle, especially the kids, and prompt conversations about making more eco-friendly choices everyday.
If you’ve already been doing your bit for the environment by opting for ethical and eco-friendly furniture, textiles and accessories, then you’ll be pleased to know you can go one step further and choose environmentally responsible work surfaces too.
Using HybriQ+ Technology that involves a hybrid formula of minerals and recycled glass, these surfaces offer a green option, and also boast a manufacturing process that’s fuelled by renewable energy and 98% recycled water.
Top tip: Make steps towards a greener lifestyle by encouraging everyone in the household to recycle, especially the kids, and prompt conversations about making more eco-friendly choices everyday.
Opt for a timeless look that works with different finishes
When sourcing a sustainable design feature, it’s not only the manufacturing process that you should factor into your decision making. Think about a product’s versatility and if it will work with many different finishes and styles, no matter how many times you change things up.
Take the Loft collection, for example, which is inspired by raw, organic textures, like concrete and steel, and brings a sleek, timeless essence to any space. By opting for classic key features, like cool, chic worktops, you’ll be confident that any changes you make to wall colours, furniture or flooring in the future will always sit perfectly.
Style tip: The key to a timeless look is to choose what you love. “There is an international language where dark colours are more elegant and light colours are more peaceful and comfortable, but you can break the rules,” says designer Lucía Zapatero.
When sourcing a sustainable design feature, it’s not only the manufacturing process that you should factor into your decision making. Think about a product’s versatility and if it will work with many different finishes and styles, no matter how many times you change things up.
Take the Loft collection, for example, which is inspired by raw, organic textures, like concrete and steel, and brings a sleek, timeless essence to any space. By opting for classic key features, like cool, chic worktops, you’ll be confident that any changes you make to wall colours, furniture or flooring in the future will always sit perfectly.
Style tip: The key to a timeless look is to choose what you love. “There is an international language where dark colours are more elegant and light colours are more peaceful and comfortable, but you can break the rules,” says designer Lucía Zapatero.
Choose a low maintenance option
As any busy household will know, a super-efficient kitchen makes all the difference to hectic schedules. As well as a cleverly planned layout that offers plenty of preparation space for multiple users at one time, an efficient kitchen needs to have worry-free surfaces that aren’t going to send you into a blind panic every time there’s a spillage.
Thanks to their low porosity, these surfaces are stain and acid resistant, while their natural strength makes them outstandingly scratch resistant too. So, not only will you be guaranteed simple-to-use kitchen worktops, wiping them down will be a joy and not a chore.
More: Discover more about Silestone Loft range here.
Your turn: What surfaces have you chosen for your kitchen?
This story was written by the Houzz Sponsored Content team.
As any busy household will know, a super-efficient kitchen makes all the difference to hectic schedules. As well as a cleverly planned layout that offers plenty of preparation space for multiple users at one time, an efficient kitchen needs to have worry-free surfaces that aren’t going to send you into a blind panic every time there’s a spillage.
Thanks to their low porosity, these surfaces are stain and acid resistant, while their natural strength makes them outstandingly scratch resistant too. So, not only will you be guaranteed simple-to-use kitchen worktops, wiping them down will be a joy and not a chore.
More: Discover more about Silestone Loft range here.
Your turn: What surfaces have you chosen for your kitchen?
This story was written by the Houzz Sponsored Content team.
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Well done for introducing the concept of sustainability and mentioning not only sustainable materials but also the sustainability of the manufacturing process.
Thank you for this article. We at Nature Element have started working with Cosentino maximising the use of their Dekton 4mm sheet and clad furniture. It is giving us many exciting possibilities with furniture.