Many kitchens offer white, wood, and chrome features. What many don’t boast is a touch of marble. Indicative of the luxurious and uber-sophisticated, marble is a textile most kitchens only dream of. Whether black-speckled or white-streaked, each marble panel is different and bespoke, with no marbled effect appearing the same. Not just for splashbacks and benches, watch as marble adorns chairs, flooring, and even a touch of the ornamental. These thirty-six kitchens show a myriad of ways in which marble can add class and sophistication to a kitchen, creating a truly luxurious cooking and tasting space.
This white kitchen breaks it up, with white marble streaking grey against a minimal backdrop. Taupe cabinetry and wood-and-charcoal chairs help mix the palette, while white globe pendant lights float to the ceiling.
Made bolder by rose gold and varnished wood, grey-and-white marble swathes itself over this contemporary space. Black stencil kitchen bar stools and a bonzai tree add focus.
Embrace your artistic side with block-shaped marble. Grey-threaded marble reflects in a splashback, while an extractor fan and papier mache lighting join the party.
Go monochromatic with white marble, broken by black. This all-white kitchen features two walls in the texture. A three-pronged light and quilted black couch draw the eye.
Evoke the mood of the boudoir in a space for eating. This lightly-veined marble wall and bench are backgrounded by plains of white cabinetry. Black chairs stencilled in white sit lit by a jellyfish chandelier.
This modern kitchen incorporates many elements. A marble splashback is joined by taupe and white cabinetry, an LED chandelier and clear acrylic dining chairs.
There’s nothing like marble to introduce the classic kitchen. French panelling in black and white joins marble in grey and white, creating a modern twist on your mother’s childhood space. Black stencil drop lighting makes it modern. If a similar black and white theme is what you prefer, do check out our feature on black and white kitchens which will surely give you some great inspiration.
The Scandinavian works well with marble, too. White walls and wooden floors match with a lightly-marbled splashback, bench and table for an understated effect. Stencil wooden features add elegance.
A darker, film noir kitchen can also house marble. A block marble bench sits before textured grey walls and charcoal cabinetry, lit by oval hanging lights. Green velvet chairs mark the foreground.
Marble is the perfect partner for clean lines. This block bench and mini splashback act in harmony with a low-hanging extractor fan, flat black utilities and mid-wooden cabinetry.
Floored and backed in marble, this monochromatic masterpiece features a bench in Snow White Quartz. Two different marbles join in a porcelain marble floor and authentic Statuario splashback.
Marble doesn’t have to be the feature. This kitchen, striking in varnished wood-panelling, adds a lightly-stroked marble façade as a finishing touch.
Black blocks feature in a range of materials in this black kitchen. With a block bench streaked in pencil-thin white, who wouldn’t want to come to dinner?
This marble kitchen goes a shade darker, in top-to-toe dark hues. A concrete floor and upper encase a textured wallpaper and stunning marble slab, the multi-coloured masterpiece of the room.
Create your own eatery in shades of beige, grey and marble. An oblong marble table with low-lying splashback creates a subdued, sophisticated space. Two hanging glass lights dim the area. Upholstered wooden bar stools help add in some warmth to the scheme.
Get on trend with grey-and-white marble for your benchtop and floor. Framed by unique black stencil lighting, white cabinetry backs a stylish place for cooking.
This all-white kitchen is grounded in marble, a floor easy-to-clean and hiding marks. Taupe-grey chairs introduce white-lacquered cabinetry beside a vase of tulips.
Grey marble need not look cold. This charcoal and marble façade accented by light wood, rose gold and pops of red is a sure way to get the tastebuds going.
Blend the classic and modern with this marble-benched space. A Florentine plaster ceiling frames dark wooden cabinetry, black-and-gold stools and a sprig of white florals. An alternating floor retains interest.
Grey is the colour of the moment. Marble shows its depth, in a framed bench and splashback mottled in a range of grey hues. Light wood and glass give it space.
Resplendent in panelling, this kitchen uses marble as a design feature. Strips of varnished wood in a ceiling and under-bench meet mottled marble in a wrap bench and splashback. White cabinetry provides a canvas.
Another panelled gem, this kitchen’s unusual shape is best set in marble. A long, varnished corridor results in marble in streaked grey, framing two thirds of a wall and two squared-off kitchen spaces. A stove’s cubby hole get a second look in.
Colour-contrast kitchens allow white marble to shine. Set on a polished wooden floor, lightly-streaked marble adorns a central table and kitchen bench. Black lamps hover over for emphasis.
The marbled effect can stretch and elongate a space. This smaller-sized room uses marble as a feature and means of keeping the room light and bright.
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Visualizer: Marina Tsishyna & Nastya Ivanchuk
Light can change the effect of marble. This white and taupe kitchen shines a glow on inlet marble, making it warm. A marbled section above turns grey, while a paler shade covers the bench.
Go minimalist with marble, white and chrome. This kitchen manages it admirably, as it bends and curves into simple geometric shapes. A couple of indoor herb planters add in some greenery to this kitchen.
A kitchen doesn’t have to be conventional. This artistic space is anything but, with two director’s wooden chairs greeting a one-legged marble bench. 70’s wooden panelling frames an artful feature in the same material, while an oven hides underneath.
Art deco and the Scandinavian collide in a light, artistic kitchen. Light wooden cabinetry and a zigazag floor hold an unusual marble frame, secured by one square and a golden tap. A matching splashback hides behind a triangular chandelier.