Following the great success of last year's Gem Awards, we're once again searching for the best kitchens of 2025!

For a chance to be crowned a winner, have your kitchen featured on our website, and receive an Amazon voucher, share your kitchen photographs with us before midnight, Friday 12th December 2025.

Once again, we’re looking for stand-out kitchens across five key categories, with one kitchen taking the title of overall winner.

Gem Awards 2025

Categories

Most Unique Design 2025

Ready to impress? We’re searching for the UK’s most beautiful, one-of-a-kind kitchens. Featuring unique design features, bold patterns, and exceptional colour choices.

Prize: £50 Amazon Voucher

Biggest Transformation 2025

Whether you’ve upcycled your existing kitchen or built from the ground up, we can’t wait to see the incredible before and after transformation shots from your recent kitchen renovation.

Prize: £50 Amazon Voucher

Best Modern Kitchen 2025

For those super sleek, stylish, and contemporary kitchen spaces, we’re looking for modern kitchen designs that wow. We want to see those clean lines, smart appliances, and efficient storage solutions that minimise clutter.

Prize: £50 Amazon Voucher

Best Traditional Kitchen 2025

We’re ready to admire those classic design choices that will stand the test of time. Covering country cottage to stunning shaker styles, we're here to celebrate the character and craft in all your traditional kitchens.

Prize: £50 Amazon Voucher

Stone Statement 2025

From waterfall ends and floating shelves to unique edge profiles, nothing makes a statement quite like a Gemini Worktops stone. We can’t wait to be wowed by your stone design features and focal points.

Prize: £50 Amazon Voucher

Overall Kitchen of the Year 2025

The big one! The standout kitchen of the year, chosen for its bespoke design features, attention to detail, and overall beauty.

Prize: £100 Amazon Voucher

Key dates for the diary

All the dates you need for the Gem Awards 2025

Entry Deadline – Friday 12 December 2025

Shortlist – January 2026

Winners Announced – February 2026

Meet the Judges 

Our expert panel brings a wealth of design and industry knowledge to the judging process. They’ll be assessing each entry on creativity, execution, and how well it meets the category criteria. With an expert eye and unwavering commitment to quality, 

Our panel ensures that each winner represents not only remarkable design, but also the creativity and craftsmanship setting new benchmarks for kitchen interiors today.

Laura Hamilton

Laura Hamilton – TV presenter, Property Developer. A highly regarded voice in UK home renovation property space, Laura is a familiar presenting face on Place in the Sun as well as constantly developing and renovating her extensive property portfolio. Also has just launched a new Youtube channel. Laura specialises in showcasing how to blend high-end design with everyday living. She will be scoring highly on personality and practical elegance.

Francesca Robinson
Francesca Robinson
Nigel Fletcher
Nigel Fletcher

Francesca Robinson — KBB & Interiors PR Consultant to brands. With a sharp eye for design integrity, Francesca brings her deep expertise in architecture, interiors, and aesthetics to every evaluation. She’s not just looking at surface beauty — she reads structural logic, material harmony, and the artistry in the fine details. Her decisions are informed by a refined sense of proportion, flow, and lasting style.

Nigel Fletcher - Worktop Fabricators Federation (WFF) Bringing his extensive focus on quality and installation, Nigel understands the craft behind every stunning kitchen. He will be paying close attention to the detail, finish, and flawless use of the Gemini worktops.

Lucy Carter

Lucy Carter – Digital Content Creator. Lucy is a content strategist & storyteller with many years curating moments and capturing life She's looking for the kitchen that truly raises the bar for 2025.

Gareth Hull – Head of Marketing & Product Development

Celebrating Our 2024 Winners

Take inspiration from the stunning kitchens that won last year's titles!

CategoryWinnerProduct
Most Unique DesignLucia BaldwinCapri White
Best Modern KitchenLiza SmithCalacatta Grand Imperial
Biggest TransformationSiana DennisAmalfi White
Stone StatementClaire CoughlinCalacatta Gold Superior
Best Traditional KitchenKuli SangheraCalacatta Gold Superior
Overall Kitchen TransformationNatalie MillsCalacatta Gold Superior
Gem Awards Winner - Biggest transformation 2024

Entry Details

To enter the 2025 Gem Awards by Gemini Worktops, please share a still image(s) of your kitchen on Instagram or Facebook using #Gemawards2025 or email your image(s) to [email protected].

You have until 23:59 on 12/12/25 to enter.

Once all entries have been received, we will draw up a shortlist from each category before final judging commences.

If you have any questions about how to enter or in connection with the Awards, please email [email protected] with “Gem Awards 2025” in the subject line.

Please read the terms and conditions below before entering.

Terms and Conditions

To be eligible for the Competition you must, as of the date of entry, (i) be a UK resident (ii) be at least 18 years of age. The Competition is not open to employees of Gemini Worktops.

All entries must be submitted between 09:00 1st November and 23:59 on Friday 12th December 2025.

All submissions to the Competition (“Entries”) must be received during the Competition Period.

By submitting an Entry, you warrant and represent to Sponsor that:

(a) you have all of the rights and authority necessary to submit the Entry in the Competition in compliance with these Terms, including the right to contract in your own name, the right to publish the image submission, and the right to grant the rights granted here under;

(b) The Entry is in all respects free and clear of all claims and rights of third parties;

(c) The Entry is the original work of you, is owned by you, including the copyright therein;

(d) The Entry complies with the requirements set forth in these Terms;

(e) You have not made any commitment for the use or publication of the Entry to any person or Entity for any commercial purposes or otherwise made any commitment in a manner that would conflict with the rights and licenses granted to Sponsor as described in these Terms.

(f) You give permission to use the entered photograph to use within the Gemini Worktops official marketing channels.

SUBMISSION CRITERIA:

Entrants will be judged on an image or images created by the Entrant.

Entries must show worktops purchased from Gemini Worktops and installed between 14/12/2024 and 12/12/2025.

The Sponsor is entitled, at its sole discretion, to require the Winners of the Competition (the “Winners”) to provide proof that the kitchen depicted in the Entry was originally purchased from the Sponsor.

To verify that the kitchen was originally purchased from the Sponsor, upon the Sponsor’s request, the Winners must submit their order number. The Sponsor is entitled to require any additional information it deems necessary to verify that the kitchen was originally purchased from the Sponsor. The Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any Entry that the Sponsor deems, in its sole discretion, cannot be verified as originally purchased from the Sponsor.

You understand and acknowledge that your Entry may receive exposure on the Internet or other public forums, where the Entry may be the subject of public comments. Sponsor is not responsible for any remarks, including any critical or derogatory remarks, posted by the public pertaining to you or your Entry.

WINNERS SELECTION PROCESS:

The Winners will be contacted in due course following the Competition Period via direct message on Instagram, Facebook or email. Direct messages will be sent to the account associated with the Competition entry.

It is each Entrant’s responsibility to timely check his/her DM’s for any notifications or messages from Sponsor and to ensure that Entrant’s Instagram account settings allow the Entrant to receive notifications and messages from Sponsor.

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