With so much to consider, spending hours trapsing through hundreds and thousands of potential tiles and flooring options can easily make anybody feel overwhelmed. But designing your dream kitchen is meant to be fun! So, we’re here to help to guide you through some of the hot picks we are seeing through this year, so grab a coffee, sit back, and let’s get you some ideas for that idyllic kitchen that’s going to bring you many years of happiness.

Large Format Tiles
This is one that seems to be increasingly growing in popularity. Larger tiles are perfect for large spaces, with less grout gaps and a seamless flowing aesthetic, these large tiles are a great choice for creating a sleek and modern look. When it comes to maintenance, larger tiles tend to be much easier as there are fewer grout lines to upkeep and keep clean, they are also much less prone to chips and cracks due to their being fewer individual pieces. This makes large tiles the perfect choice for areas with heavy foot traffic. With large format tiles being available in a variety of different materials, there are a variety of different options to suits most budgets.

Desert Pearl Limestone
The Desert Pearl Limestone has been an incredibly popular product this year. With its warm grey and beige tones, this limestone is the perfect base for almost any colour scheme. Whether you want to add soft or strong colours this tile is very likely to blend into any aesthetic. The Desert Pearl limestone also tells stories dating back thousands of years with its small speckles and fossils, perfect for adding a sense of unique individuality to any home. This tile is also available in sizes suitable for external use, making it the perfect choice if you are looking to continue the design into the garden.

Golden Tones
Golden tones are great for aiding in adding luxury and warmth to any space, making it the perfect choice to any kitchen. With bold reflective qualities, gold tiles are fantastic at brightening up a space and if you opt for a polished finish this can also help to reflect light around the room. It has also been known in colour psychology to create a sense of calm and comfort so why wouldn’t you want to add them to your kitchen. Our Jerusalem Antique Gold is the perfect choice for adding soft golden tones to your kitchen, mixed with variations of fossils and multi tonal characteristics this tile is perfect for creating a traditional look in any home.

Tumbled Finish
Tumbled tiles are a fantastic choice for any kitchen as they can help to create a rustic look in any space. The great thing about tumbled tiles is that if you have a space that is starting to look a bit dated but you’re also a little bit scared that any sort of renovation will take away its charm and make it look too clinical and modern, tumbled tiles have the ability to uplift the space without taking away the personality it already holds. Tumbled tiles are available in a wide range of materials and there are many different colour schemes to suit any taste and style.

Opus Patterns
Opus pattern tiles create an exciting visual interest in any space and with the kitchen being one of the main rooms in the home, an opus pattern will always make a perfect addition! By combining different set sizes to create a set pattern, this opus patterned tiles are the perfect way to break up any large space and add a rustic or textured look making it a much more visually appealing format than uniform tile layouts. Thes opus patterns are usually most effective when it comes to natural stone tiles and the variations in size and colour enhance the aesthetic.

Grey Porcelain 
Grey porcelain tiles are an incredibly popular choice when it comes to kitchen flooring. The reasons behind this are endless, with their versatility, durability and the ease of maintenance only being some of them. Grey porcelain tiles can blend seamlessly into almost any décor and can withstand almost any spill or stain, making it the perfect choice for the everyday home. With porcelain being a dense material, it is bound to bring you many years of happiness without the general upkeep which is required for natural stone tiles.

Now the rest is up to you! It is important to remember that it is your kitchen and nobody else’s, so although trends are great for giving us an idea on what works and what people like, it is important to take your own likes and dislikes into account on a much larger scale than what the trends are telling you to do.