Green works hard in a kitchen, bringing an organic, garden-inspired feel to a room that is otherwise full of hard surfaces and stainless steel, very much in keeping with the rise of biophilic design and its love of bringing the outside in. Choose from deep forest and alligator shades for a moodier, more dramatic kitchen, or lighter sage and mint tones if you want something calmer and more everyday.
For kitchen floors, a large format green porcelain in a wood, stone, cement or plain finish is easy to keep clean and copes well with constant footfall. A smaller decorative green tile earns its place on a splashback or worktop surround, and in a compact kitchen a patterned green floor tile can add real character where there is less wall space to play with. Given how much a kitchen floor has to cope with in the way of spills and splashes, a tiled surface is one of the most practical choices you can make.