IKEA has been accused of 'hypocrisy' amid a call for the furniture giant to pull a range of kitchen benchtops due to its links to a fatal disease. A letter sent to Australian chief executive Mirja ...

Silicosis is commonly diagnosed after inhaling a dust mineral commonly found in certain types of rocks used to create kitchen benchtops. Source: Getty / Bill Oxford Silicosis is a lung condition that ...

Want a new kitchen but don’t want to spend money on an entirely new one? A new benchtop could be all you need. If there’s one thing that makes a massive difference in a kitchen, it’s the benchtop; the ...

I didn’t mind the old kitchen benchtop. It was a perfectly fine laminated benchtop in a tasteful ’80’s salmon-pink with tiny black flecks running through it, handy for hiding poppy seeds and sleeping ...

As a designer and avid cook, I'm often asked what material I recommend for kitchen benchtops. My answer: honed marble (statuary or Carrara are my favourites) or soapstone because I like their mellow ...

Aussies are going crazy for a new type of ‘faux marble’ that is said to be 10 times more durable than its laminate predecessor and just a fraction of the price of stone. Since then it has levelled off ...

The dust from cutting engineered stone benchtops and vanities is killing Australian tradies.See all 12 stories. Perched on the end of his chair and struggling to breathe, 56-year-old Dinh Tran uses ...

The recently launched Imperio benchtop range is a well-considered choice. Anyone with a beautiful marble benchtop will know that an upended glass of Pinot on a slab of Carrara can often remain long ...

Police accuse the pair of concealing about $187m worth of the drug inside kitchen benchtops and chandeliers. Australian Federal Police swooped on Hamed Yarmohammadi, 30, and Niusha Ojaghfaghihi, 26, ...