When designing a kitchen, aesthetics often take centre stage. Designers carefully select colours, cabinetry style, and worktop pattern to craft their customer’s ideal space. However, one sensory element often overlooked in kitchen design is touch. The tactility of worktops plays a significant role in not only how a kitchen looks but also in how it feels to use and experience. The texture of a worktop can transform a kitchen from a purely functional space to one that engages all the senses, adding warmth, luxury, or a sleek modern edge.
Why Tactility Matters
Our sense of touch influences how we perceive quality, comfort, and craftsmanship. A smooth, cool surface evokes elegance and refinement, while a textured, rougher look invites warmth in either an earthy, rustic way or an urban, industrial vibe. These tactile elements create an emotional connection, making the kitchen feel more inviting and personalised.
Tactile worktops go beyond aesthetics—they define how we interact with our kitchen. Whether it’s the reflective glow of a polished surface, the chic sleekness of a honed surface or the raw edginess of a concrete finish, the tactile qualities of a worktop are so important to consider. There’s no surface in a kitchen that will be touched, leant on or interacted with more than the worktop.
This is why, we at Caesarstone, offer a range of different finishes. Each customer is unique in their kitchen desires and deserves to have a kitchen that reflects their wants. Across our portfolio we offer over 9 different surface finishes, each one offering a different aesthetic and tactile quality. Here are 5 of our most popular finish types:
1. Polished
With its high-gloss smoothness, our Polished finish emphasises the surface features with its stunning lustre. It attracts light and reflects it with elegance, illuminating the space around it with a natural brilliance that makes it seem larger and luxurious.
Available for a selection of our Quartz or Mineral surfaces, our most popular Polished surface designs include: 5131 Calacatta Nuvo and 5143 White Attica
2. Silk
Silky with a warm lustre and a soft, smooth feel, the Silk finish drapes the surface in a shimmering overlay. Light glides gently over it, creating a luxurious appeal that adds a dimension of softness and comfort.
Available for a selection of our Porcelain surfaces, our most popular Silk surface designs include: 508 Isobellia and 506 Mirabel
3. Honed
Smooth to the touch and gentle on the eye, Honed finish offers a matte, low-gloss organic luminosity. Its subtle aesthetics is combined with a modest muted quality, adding delicate sophistication to the surface.
Available for a selection of our Quartz and Mineral and Porcelain surfaces, our most popular Honed surface designs include: 505 Archetta and 5820 Darcrest
4. Stone
Tenderly tactile with a pleasant radiance, Stone finish has the ambiance of a weathered rock that is comforting and genuinely authentic. Its satiny gleam is only slightly embossed and irregular in depth, like the soothing touch of a semi-smooth stone.
Available for a selection of our Porcelain surfaces, our most popular Stone surface designs include: 542 Mosstone and 550 Silvax
5. Rough Concrete
A complex rugged look and feel, Rough finish is based on advanced technologies that create a compelling tactile experience. Surfaces get the distinctive effect of coarse industrial materials, yet remain smooth enough for easy cleaning and offer an intensified sense of real depth with heightened colour.
Available for a selection of our Quartz and Mineral surfaces, our most popular Rough Concrete surface designs include: 4044 Airy Concrete and 4011 Cloudburst Concrete
The tactile quality of worktops is an essential, yet often underestimated, element of kitchen design. Designing with touch in mind creates a kitchen that feels as good as it looks—a space where beauty and usability seamlessly converge. Regardless of surface finish, Caesarstone comes with the added reassurance that all our designs will be robust, low-maintenance and easy to clean, with each surface coming with a Lifetime Warranty. With almost four decades of experience in crafting surfaces we’ve mastered the creation of designs and finishes that are highly durable with zero compromise on aesthetics.
Head over to our website to explore our full range of products: caesarstone.co.uk/catalogue and use our filters to browse your desired finish options.
