A Zinc Worktop for Your Zinc Kitchen
Let Designs O5 craft a beautiful zinc worktop for your zinc kitchen. We have handcrafted zinc interior features for 16 years, specialising in kitchen worktops, cupboard doors, and drawer fronts. Using our heavy-duty zinc sheet, we can make worktops up to 3 meters long without a joint.
Full Zinc Kitchens
We have completed over 100 zinc kitchen installations over the last 10 years. So there is not much we don’t know about zinc worktops and zinc kitchens.
This example is a small galley-style zinc kitchen with worktops, cupboards and drawer fronts clad in zinc.
The final finish to complete the industrial look is a bespoke aged zinc patina
Large zinc worktop
This impressive zinc worktop with breakfast bar is circa 4 meters long x 1.2 meters wide. It had to be made in three sections and bolted together underneath.
This worktop has been used for some time and the patina is developing to show the classic industrial rustic look. The muted colours of zinc blend nicely with the rest of the kitchen.
Zinc worktop bull-nosed edges.
This example is a zinc worktop island with a breakfast bar all combined in one unit. It is a chunky 5 cm thick with a bull nose running all around.
The finish is typical of an aged zinc patina created in our patina studio.
Zinc Worktop Install
The installation of a new full zinc-clad worktop and units.
Provision in the top was made for an under-mounted ceramic sink to be fitted.
The zinc is finished in a light patina finish.
About Zinc
Zinc is a live metal; it is ideally suited to an industrial-style interior look. We supply zinc worktops, table tops, etc, in either a natural or patina finish. The patina finish is a starting point away from new zinc for it to continue to acquire patina. Natural will also patina with use and age and react to its environment.
We are asked about lacquering to preserve the initial look, but we don’t recommend this; worktops generally get a lot of traffic and damage to the lacquer is fairly inevitable.
Areas with heavy use and zinc that is washed more regularly will patina differently. In the end, the whole top will mature with time and become rustic.
Zinc Worktop or Simple Zinc Kitchen – How its done
We collaborate with architects, designers, kitchen companies, and private clients to create stunning worktops.
Many clients provide their own timber carcasses for us to clad. The production process begins in our woodworking department, where we assemble the substrate using CNC equipment for precise cutting, typically in MRMDF or high-quality birch plywood.
Once the timber carcass is complete, it moves to the metalworking shop for zinc cladding. Our computerized machinery ensures accuracy in both cutting and bending, while corner details are expertly soldered.
The final stage involves finishing in our patina studio, after which the completed zinc worktop undergoes a thorough inspection before being packed for shipping or collection.
Whole Zinc Kitchens
When we clad kitchen doors and cupboard panels in zinc, we need to work with your kitchen manufacturer/installer to achieve the best results. We need to discuss dimensional tolerances for the added metal thickness, and the hinge design needs consideration.
Typically, the kitchen fitter installs everything, including the tops. The installer will often supply the worktop timber carcass to us for zinc cladding. This often happens where a wall is not dead straight, and the worktop has to be scribed and cut specially to fit.
The whole project is a joint effort. While designing your zinc kitchen consider also a zinc dining table top as a finishing touch.
For Inspiration
For a change of theme discover the warm tones of copper worktops with maybe a copper splashback or even the yellow tones of brass worktops
Metal Finishes
Browse through our extensive range of metal finishes, you’ll be surprised how many there are!
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Designs 05 was established in 2005; it is a trading style of Metal Sheets Ltd.
Unit 4, Millmead Buildings,
83 Sefton Lane,
Maghull,
Liverpool, L31 8BU
Brass, Copper & Zinc Interiors since 2005