5 things I wish I had known before getting wooden worktops – and what I'll do differently next time

White kitchen with timber wooden worktops to support a guide on what you need to know before buying wooden worktops.

I am ashamed to admit that I tend not to be someone who learns easily from my mistakes, and this definitely applies to the home renovation mistakes I've made over the years.

For example, despite opting for dark slate floor tiles in our first project and constantly grumbling about how visible dusty paw prints were on them, I somehow chose the same dark slate, albeit in a larger format, for the kitchen in this house. But it is the timber wooden worktops that have fooled me twice.