Templating Corian for a London apartment galley that has no spare millimetres

Apartment galleys in this city are honest about space and dishonest about walls. Nothing is square, the meter cupboard eats a corner, and the aisle that looked fine on a floorplan is nine hundred millimetres with a bin in it. Corian Worktops London templates these rooms as compact furniture: millimetres recovered at the sink, no fantasy overhang, and a piece count that will still fit the lift.

Finish almost flush; put seating somewhere the aisle can spare

A breakfast-bar overhang in a galley is how hips get bruised. If the aisle is already tight, finish the Corian almost flush with the carcass and put seating at a wall table instead. The material can still look considered: a thin profile, a quiet colour that holds evening city light, a seam that hides behind the hob. Handleless doors help. A thick worktop nose plus a handle is a snag in a rented or newly bought flat where everyone passes with shopping.

Corian Worktops London would rather you kept the deck visually light and the walkway honest. Measure the aisle with the bins and the dishwasher door open; that is the real kitchen. Skip the waterfall unless the end is against a wall nobody walks past. If two people cook, recover width at the sink, not at a peninsula the plan cannot support.

• Measure the aisle with bins and dishwasher door open; that is the real kitchen.
• Skip a waterfall unless the end is against a wall nobody walks past.

Scribe the banana wall, the fridge plinth and the fuse box

The template has to record the fridge plinth, the boiler flue, the fuse box and the slightly banana wall that every London conversion hides. A rigid catalogue length will leave a tapering gap that silicone cannot politely fill. Scribe. Split the run if the longest wall is out by more than a few millimetres. Compact rooms show gaps more than large rooms do because you stand closer.

Meter cupboards that must remain accessible cannot sit under a glued-down upstand with no thought. Leave a removable section or stop the Corian short. Landlords and building managers will thank you; so will the engineer at ten at night.

An integrated bowl as recovered prep, not as a luxury extra

In a galley, a steel rim is wasted landscape. An integrated Corian bowl gives the cloth a continuous plane and can sit closer to the front edge because there is no metal lip to catch. That is often thirty or forty millimetres of extra wipeable deck, which in this room is a lot. Drainer grooves should be short and few; a full draining board will eat the only prep left.

Boiling-water taps save a kettle but need a reliable void in a small cupboard. Do not steal the last pot drawer for a tank if the household lives on one oven sheet and a saucepan. Place the bowl where the aisle is widest, even if that is not the window. Keep the tap on the same zone as the bowl; a separate soap dispenser is a luxury a galley can skip. Check the waste will miss the meter tails before you fall in love with a corner sink.

• Place the bowl where the aisle is widest, even if that is not the window.
• Keep tap and bowl in one zone; skip a separate soap dispenser if space is tight.

Do not sign a compact template in a lease panic

If the flat is rented, or newly purchased with a chain still twitching, the template day is when people rush. Do not. A compact galley has no spare millimetres. Photograph the template in place, confirm the piece count for the lift, and confirm the parking hour for the fitting van. Corian Worktops London would rather hold a deposit than fit a run that was signed in a panic and then hated at the first dinner party.

Once it is in, the galley should feel calmer, not smaller: one material, thin edges, a sink that wipes as part of the deck. Recover centimetres. Do not invent an overhang. Leave the aisle for people.

Next step with Corian Worktops London

Order a sample, then request a fitted quote or browse the worktop collection. The colour should be judged in your own daylight before anyone templates the run.