Our Buyers Guide to Granite Kitchen Benchtops

Granite Benchtops offer enduring natural elegance and unequaled durability whereby providing uncompromising style to any New Kitchen build or Kitchen Renovation. Granite may also be used for kitchen Splashbacks. Granite is a naturally occurring material that is available in many different forms and colours to suit any kitchen style.

There are formations of Granite that are reasonably uniform in colour and pattern throughout the slab and then there are others that have natural random swirls of colour and depth, each creating their own natural individual patterns. Granites form into a wide array of colours covering Blacks, to dark Greens, Blues, Browns, and Reds. Some types of Granite have deep translucent Opal effects of Blue and some with Green.

There are forms that are pure Black and there are other Black Granites that have include reflective Silver flecks throughout and others with reflective flecks of Gold Broncite inclusions. There are a few types that have lighter tones and come in colours such as Greys, Beige, Apricot, rusty Yellows, there are Granites that form with a mix of White and Black striations and there are a few types that have a dominant white ground.

Granite is generally available in slabs that are around either 20mm thick or 30mm thick and these can be built-up if you require a thicker appearance. Granite surfaces have a much higher gloss than those of any of the alternative composite stone materials. Natural Granite also has a much deeper surface translucency when compared to manmade Reconstituted Stone.


An alternative stone material to Natural Granite, is the manmade stone product known as Reconstituted Stone. We have a section for you about Reconstituted Stone and its properties back on the Materials page.