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