The Ultimate Guide to Choosing Dekton Colours for Your Kitchen Style
Engineered countertops allow homeowners and designers to infuse their kitchens with a more tailored colour palette. To help make the most of modern kitchen countertops, use our ultimate guide to choosing Dekton colours to elevate your kitchen aesthetics.
What is Dekton?
Dekton is an engineered countertop brand fusing a unique mix of minerals such as quartz, porcelain, and glass to create an ultracompact porcelain slab. The process produces the same effect as natural stone by applying extreme heat and pressure to minerals, resulting in a beautiful, versatile, low-maintenance surface. Because it is manufactured, it allows designers to create bespoke counter colours not found in nature while mimicking the beauty of natural stone for a high-end look.
Warm vs. Cool Dekton Colours
Counter colours can be warm or cool, impacting the overall feel of your kitchen design. Warm colours leaning into tones of brown, beige, and cream are more inviting, while cool colours can make a space feel light and airy in whites, greys, and bluish hues.
However, there are other factors that can create warmth, such as a matte finish or veining, which feels warmer than a very stark, high-gloss finish in a solid pattern.
Understanding how to create warmth with these designer tricks helps you benefit from the light, airy feel of cooler whites by toning down starkness with texture and duller finishes. For example, the brown, rusty veining in Awake warms up the cooler grey undertones for the perfect balance of light and warmth.
Contrast vs. Monochrome
Contrasting patterns create texture and interest, ideal when you want more drama. Dekton colours found in Khalo, for example, are filled with intense textural patterns. Spots, veining, and chunks in black, gold, and coffee are striking against an almost peachy taupe background.
Choosing a complementary palette like Dekton’s Khalo doesn’t feel hectic, yet the high contrast adds depth and exciting structural details. Dekton colours like Trance contrast creams with deeper greys and bluish tones, creating a more defined marbling for elegant contrast.
Monochrome can range from very subtle patterns like Sandik’s smooth, creamy background with hints of gray, or Halo’s near-perfect white with hints of barely-there shades of grey. Deeper colours like Laos, Grafite, and Bromo offer rich sophistication and subtle contrast, while Laurent’s chic dark chocolate brown laced with veins of gold is bold yet elegant. Sirius and Domoos are more solid and restrained for a fully monochromatic look.
Japandi vs. Scandi Kitchen Countertop Colours
Following similar kitchen design trends like Japandi and Scandi can be confusing. Scandi’s bright and airy design feels modern and practical, while Japandi feels more grounded and warm with rustic touches and finishes. They are similar in many ways, but achieve different results.
When you want to open up a small space and bring in more light, Scandi is the best choice, calling for Dekton colours such as Neural with its light colour and minimalist horizontal veining, while open spaces that feel cold and somewhat hectic need warmth or a sense of calm and can benefit from Japandi style and colours like Dekton’s Nebu with its distinct irregularities.
Matte vs. Gloss in Dekton Colours
As mentioned, the finish impacts your kitchen countertop colour choices, and matte finishes are warm while glossy finishes are cooler. However, the finish also affects the depth of colour. For instance, polished surfaces have the wet look that intensifies colours, and matte finishes have the opposite effect, softening colours.
If you have modern matte wood cabinets, you can create a more cohesive look by choosing matte counters, but can add more texture with modern finishes like leathering to create an aged look.
This finish is also a trick used to keep countertops looking their best by hiding the natural imperfections that can make glossy counters look old and worn.
Terrazzo vs. Marble Kitchen Countertop Colour Effects
We’re also seeing a move toward the Italian aesthetic found in traditional terrazzo. While Carrara marble has dominated kitchen counters for decades, terrazzo’s distinct aggregate effect adds new texture to Dekton colours. For example, Ceppo’s blue-grey tones and random shapes feel more structured and interesting than passé marbled veining.
Beyond White, Grey, and Black Dekton Colours
White, grey, and black counters have ruled the design world for far too long. More homeowners are differentiating their space using unusual kitchen countertop colours. Dekton colours such as rich terra cotta Umber, hints of blue veining in Trance, brown coffee tones in Khalo, or warm beigey tones in Marmorio and Avorio are just a few examples of choices that make a more exciting statement in your kitchen design.
Matching Cabinets and Counters
Cabinets and countertops take up most of the attention in your kitchen design. Considering how the colour of your cabinets plays into your kitchen’s overall colour palette helps you find the perfect kitchen countertop colours. For example, the introduction of modern cabinet colours such as deep blues, sagey greens, or rich reds and burgundies makes it harder to find the perfect counters.
Dekton colours allow you to create a more custom look that blends painted cabinet colours with counters more effectively.
You can also use counters to break up the monotony of solid painted cabinets that lack the interest and texture of natural woods or wood veneers. Adding more veining in marble looks or structured patterns with terrazzo looks disrupts blocks of colour caused by banks of cabinetry.
Although our Dekton colour guide helps inspire your kitchen renovation design, a visit to our showroom will help you visualize your kitchen design scheme and introduce you to the full Dekton colour line.
Contact the Professionals at Quartz Co Surfaces
Quartz Co Surfaces offers spacious showrooms and expert consultants to help take your kitchen design planning to the next level. We specialize in luxurious solid surface designs and offer in-person or virtual consultations for your convenience.
