Design-Led Hard-Wearing Surfaces for your Kitchen

The worktops, splashbacks and flooring you need now

With the look and feel of genuine stone, but lighter, thinner and easier to lay, porcelain is a low-maintenance option for kitchen flooring. Montpellier ivory porcelain flooring, from £70.80 per square metre Lapicida, Harrogate

This near-black aliminium splashback provides a dramatic backstop in this kitchen. Lava Stone splashback, Alusplash, stockists regionwide

Nina Campbell’s collaboration with Fired Earth includes these pretty Rivage tiles, which come in seven colourways including indigo and ivory. £75.20 per square metre, Nina Campbell x Fired Earth at firedearth.com

Soft, cascading grey streaks bring movement to a creamy-white base in this polished quartz worktop. Calacatta Nuvo, Ceasarstone, stockists regionwide

Natural granite provides a long-lasting, durable finish. This unique example, Volgar Blue, is hand-selected from quarries in Ukraine. Available at RH Stone Surfaces, South Shields