Shoreline Terrazzo is the brightest tile in the Godfrey Hirst Olympus Stone range: a cool white-grey terrazzo base scattered densely with fine charcoal and black flecks. It is cooler than the name suggests: this is the crisp, contemporary terrazzo look...

Wheat is a light sandy blonde: a warm, softly golden board with gentle grain movement and a slightly deeper, less yellow cast than a true blonde oak. It is the most understated of Alpine's warm planks and the easiest to...

Snow is worth a second look before you assume it from the name. It is not a white board. It is a very pale warm greige, a soft creamy neutral with smooth, quiet grain and almost no contrast. It is...

Warm Concrete Grey is a mid-grey concrete design with a warm undertone: smooth and low in contrast, but with enough subtle cloudiness across the surface to read as poured concrete rather than a flat printed colour. It is the darker...

Manor is a warm mid-brown rustic oak design, laid to a herringbone pattern: the only patterned timber look in the Alpine Artisan range, and by some distance the most decorative. The tone is a honeyed tan-brown with visible knots and...

Light Grey Concrete is a pale off-white concrete design: smooth, near-uniform and almost free of pattern, with only the faintest cloudiness to suggest a poured surface. It is the lightest and quietest tile in the Alpine Artisan range. Minimal concrete...

Estate is a warm grey-brown timber design with strong, weathered grain running through it: the most characterful of the Alpine Artisan tiles, and the one that reads as reclaimed or barn timber rather than a clean modern oak. Heavy grain...

Cool Gravel is a grey terrazzo design: a mid-grey ground densely scattered with pale and dark stone aggregate, giving the busiest, most textured surface in the Alpine Artisan range. It reads as poured terrazzo rather than plain concrete, and at...

Dreamy is a true black and the darkest colour Sumptuous offers. Where Spell Bound retains a trace of charcoal and Whisper is clearly a dark grey, Dreamy has no grey left in it at all. It is the absolute end...

Spell Bound is a very dark, near-black charcoal, deeper than Whisper, which still reads as a charcoal grey, and just short of Dreamy, which is a true black. It keeps the faintest amount of grey in it, enough that in...

English Toffee is the only genuinely brown colour in Sumptuous: a warm mid brown with a true toffee tone to it, caramel rather than chocolate and with none of the grey that neutralises the rest of the palette. Elite, the...

Read the swatch, not the name: Whisper is a dark cool charcoal-grey. It is one of the deepest colours in Sumptuous, a long way from the pale, barely-there tone the name implies, and it is easily the most misjudged colour...

Platinum is a mid cool grey with a brown undertone running underneath it, which is what stops it from being the flat, hard grey that the name suggests. It is the grey for people who want a grey floor but...

Elite is a mid warm taupe-brown, and the easiest way to place it is against Luxe: same family, but Elite is darker and distinctly warmer, with more brown pulled through the taupe. Where Luxe reads mushroom, Elite reads soft earth....

Luxe is a mid warm mushroom-taupe: the colour of a raw linen curtain or a dried mushroom cap, with more brown in it than Cloud Nine and less than Elite. It is the true middle of the Sumptuous neutrals: warm...

Despite the name, Cloud Nine is not a pale colour. It is a mid warm grey-taupe: a good deal deeper than Pearl or Porcelain, and comfortably in the middle of the Sumptuous range rather than at the light end of...

Porcelain is the coolest pale colour in Sumptuous: a light grey with a distinct green cast, closer to a pale stone or sea glass than to a warm cream. That green is what separates it from Pearl, which is a...

Pearl is a light warm greige: the pale end of Sumptuous, sitting a clear step above Royal Beige in lightness while keeping the same warm undertone rather than going grey. Put the two side by side and Pearl is the...