Whilst glass worktops have certainly increased in popularity in recent years a surprising number of people choose very still not yet picked up on the wealth of benefits which they have to offer.
In fact glass worktops offer four main benefits when compared with almost any other type of work surface currently available.
The first of these four benefits is practicality.
In many cases work surfaces are manufactured and delivered in sections.
These sections then have to be fitted together as well as fitted to cabinets and walls.
Effectively this means that you are building a very large three-dimensional puzzle, endeavouring to align each section just right in order to keep seams and joins neat.
Glass worktops on the other hand are manufactured and delivered as a single sections.
This means that they can be slotted into place in the kitchen and fixed to the walls and cabinets, with no joins or seams to worry about.
This often means that glass worktops take much less time to fit.
The second advantage of glass work surfaces stems directly from the first, because the very fact that the glass worktop is moulded in a single section and does not necessitate there being any joins or seams, means that hygiene is significantly improved.
Any seam or join in a work surface of splashback is inevitably going to be the first place where bacteria, mould and mildew hide and breed.
With a glass work surface a single spray of antibacterial solution followed by a wipe down is all that is needed to keep your family safe.
The third benefit of glass as a material for kitchen worktops is durability, and this can be a little surprising.
Many people erroneously believe that glass is a fragile or weak material, and that using glass for a kitchen worktop is inherently a bad idea.
But of course this is to confuse the kind of glass you might have in your shed window or a wine glass with the glass door on your cooker, the glass casserole dish you use or the glass you sit a few inches behind when driving a car at 70 miles an hour.
In fact the kind of glass used in kitchen worktops is extremely durable, and can easily withstand the daily knocks, crashes and bangs as well as heat, sharp knives and acidic juices.
The fourth benefit is simply the appearance.
Without doubt glass worktops offer a unique look that is immediately striking and can make more difference to the overall way a kitchen looks than anything else you can try to do.
Not only is glass available in an astonishingly wide range of colours, but with textured effects and even LED under lighting the eventual appearance is limited only by your imagination.
Because glass is translucent any light in the kitchen is immediately reflected and refracted through the glass worktops, imbuing the entire room with a coloured glow that adds real atmosphere to the living space.