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A Silestone worktop to highlight the bold style of a very eclectic home
Anette Laurim in collaboration with Pronorm
Location
Munich (Germany)
Material
Silestone
Application
Kitchen countertops
Architecture / Design
Anette Laurim in collaboration with Pronorm
Color
Silestone Et. Noir | Silestone Iconic White
Quantity
2 slabs
End date
2022
Thickness
12, 20 mm
The gradual renovation of her home – a 1950s house with a huge garden and swimming pool in Munich – was all the inspiration Anette Laurim needed to give up her IT career and become... an interior designer and content creator!
This was helped, of course, by the fact that she started sharing her decorative looks on Instagram, where she now has more than 40,000 followers. ‘I love decorating, above all, my eclectic home, characterised by monochrome contrasts, deliberate colour accents with appealing pop art touches and the carefree elegance of the Bohème,’ says Laurim.
She always had a clear idea of what she wanted, both 20 years ago, when she designed the kitchen for her own home, and now, when she has decided to renovate it. A case in point is: ‘When I built the kitchen, it was hard to find handle-less doors on the market. But I really wanted them, and a carpenter was able to make that wish come true. I loved them,’ she recalls.
From a U-shaped kitchen to an in-line layout with an island
Now, the challenge was different: to completely revamp the style of the space, which is only 2.90 metres wide and 3.60 long; to increase storage capacity while keeping a light and tidy look; to integrate it with the living room, and to make an additional window facing east to let in the morning sun.
To do this, Laurim embarked on a somewhat daring venture with such tight dimensions: she discarded the old U-shaped layout and opted for a wall-filling kitchen line, into which she integrated the window and placed the cooking island in front of it. The furniture fronts, of course, once again looked clean thanks to the handle-free doors from Pronorm, and this time she chose Silestone for the worktop.
Silestone: all the beauty of the natural stone… with new and extraordinary properties
‘The material looks and feels just as good as natural stone, but it can be perfectly adapted to the needs of each project and is much easier to handle,’ explains Laurim. ‘It has won me over with its wide range of colours and designs. What also convinced me was that the veining continues along the edge, as in natural stone’.
For the worktop of the kitchen island, inspired by bar counters, the expert went for Silestone Et. Noir with polished texture, thus emphasising the continuity of the surface. ‘Its white veining provides a connection to the white lines of the kitchen, and the warm brown grains take on the wood tone of the oak parquet floor,’ explains the designer.
For the kitchen counter, Laurim preferred Silestone Iconic White in the velvety Suede texture so that the light now coming in through the new window would optimally be reflected on the worktop. ‘A black surface would have swallowed it,’ she reasons.
Silestone, from the kitchen to the whole house!
After winning the kitchen with its beauty, Silestone has also moved into other areas of the home. ‘I chose my slabs directly at the Cosentino Centre in Munich. There I was put in touch with Templer Natursteinwerk, a large stone processor, who cut them exactly to my specifications. With the leftover Silestone Et. Noir slab, I was also able to add an elegant surface to our bathroom countertop. And now I’m using the rest of the Silestone Iconic White slab upstairs for my daughter’s kitchen,’ she concludes.
“I love decorating, above all, my eclectic home, characterised by monochrome contrasts, deliberate colour accents with appealing pop art touches and the carefree elegance of the Bohème”.
Anette Laurim
Interior designer
