Patterned tiles: beautiful solutions for your floor

 Patterned tiles: beautiful solutions for your floor

Simple monochrome ceramic floor coverings today are rapidly losing ground to the popularity of floor tiles with a pattern. Nowadays, very bold solutions are in fashion in the form of combined combinations of tiles, distinguished by a variety of stylistic forms and aesthetic decisions, which make it possible to lay out highly artistic patterns and ornaments from them.

Special features

When choosing a tile, the area of ​​the room plays a significant role. It is mainly a kitchen or a bathroom. Based on this, the color of the coating is selected. So, to give lightness to the room, you should select a tile of light colors, whereas to create an atmosphere of elegance it should be dark.Polished surfaces are used to visually enlarge the space. The matte surface is soothing.

Small spaces require caution when using large tiles. Grout for them should be chosen to match.

Many consumers forget about decoration, with an emphasis on the practicality of tile flooring, which in general is a significant mistake. The fact is that the usual selection of monotonous tiles for other elements creates a very dull design in the kitchen, which over time becomes somewhat embarrassing. But the addition to the coating of several tiles with a decorative ornament seriously transforms the interior.

Many people are afraid to use a patterned ceramic coating, motivating it with the fact that over time it will bother you, will unduly focus attention on itself or it will turn out to be unsuccessful in the style of the room.

On the other hand, it is required to give the interior the necessary individuality, therefore, a very profitable and never losing popularity option is the flooring of black and white tones, made in a checkerboard pattern.This is a classic in its purest form, which will never go out of style. The peak of the popularity of such a chess pattern fell on the middle of the twentieth century. A variety of such a chess structure for a tile on the floor can be called a ceramic coating with a white and gray tint with splashes for a decorative panel.

The atmosphere of pleasant contrast, created by black and white chess pattern, is often used in the styles of glamor and art deco.

The main advantage of such a sexual design is its unpretentiousness in adaptation to furniture. For chess tiles suitable as furniture made of wood and metal. The main thing is to match its color to one of the two antagonistic colors of the tile flooring.

A special case of such a coating can be called a tile laid in a checkerboard pattern, but having colorful cells. The combination of colors here is not so important. Thanks to their harmonious combination of such tiles will fit freely into the interior of any kind. It should be chosen for the Scandinavian style or glamorous directions.

Octagonal Ornament

Tile laid on the floor in the past was not always rectangular or square.For a long time, fashion design was the design of floors with octagonal ceramic coatings, the shape of which is obtained due to square shapes laid along the borders of the plates. The rather simple use of eight corners instead of four transforms the interior beyond recognition.

The format of such coverage is selected depending on the dimensions of the room. For premises of a small area, a small format is selected, respectively. In this case, thick contrasting grout is used as a decorative frame in order to emphasize the unusual geometric shape of the tile.

This design option is great even for matte surfaces, if they have a warm noble tone. The advantages of a matte surface are its practicality, since such floors, unlike glossy ones, do not slip, and dirt and dust on them are hardly noticeable.

Large ornament for large rooms

For laying on the floor in large rooms used large-sized ceramic tiles coated with a large pattern. Other options patterned geometric tiled flooring can serve as a combination of multi-colored tiles or panels.In the first case, this may be a patterned contour for a narrow corridor, laid out in length.

The panels are decorative images made on a single tile of a large area or a combination of several tiles that form a single pattern. Such panels fit organically into large spaces, and the important point here is the correct choice of their location. As a rule, it is the central part of the room. In the case when there are several, symmetrical arrangement of such panels relative to the center of the room looks very good.

Honeycombs, triangles, diamonds and other "geometry"

Modern style trends do not differ restraint in the choice of texture solutions and combinations up to the most paradoxical options. Extravagance is achieved even by the simplicity of laying in the form of a Christmas tree in the manner of a parquet board, for which multicolored oblong-shaped tiles are used.

The unusual shape of the tiles allows you to create at least unusual, fancy patterns with an amazing design of the entire coating as a whole. Thus, the cellular structure, which is rapidly gaining popularity recently, is represented by hexagons of two or more colors. They trim the floors in the corridors, in the kitchens or in the bathrooms.

No less interesting are the small tiles of triangular shape, which can immediately draw attention to themselves.

Selection rules

Designers prefer ceramic tiles with a pattern printed on it because of its beauty, functionality and durability. The main requirement here is its compatibility with other elements of the interior space. If, for example, in the kitchen the whole furnishings are made of natural wood, then the floor should be laid tiles with a color under the tree.

The floor with an oriental-style ornament expands the space and raises the ceiling, but if there is too much of it and it has a bright ornament, the walls take on a massive appearance, begin to crush and it becomes unpleasant to be in the room.

Large spacious rooms of considerable size require the choice of tiles with a large pattern. It can be images that are made up of several rows of such a coating. To visually lift the ceiling, you will need to apply a tile with a vertically positioned pattern.

For rooms with a small area, such as a bathroom, a small tile is chosen, and a mosaic should be considered ideal for such rooms.

If the floor is covered with tiles with geometric or oriental ornaments, then the walls should be installed tile beige, blue or another color, but always solid. The space of the room should not be overloaded with an excess of decorative elements. Also, the room will look very organic if you decorate only one of the walls in such a room with decorative ceramics.

The logic in the selection of tiles should be to apply it to the nature of the room. Ceramic coating with images of vegetables or fruits, still lifes or landscapes suitable directly for the kitchen. For the bathroom at the same time, the marine theme will be the best option, and for the hallway it will be ceramic in the color of wood.

In order to give the interior of the room the necessary aesthetics, it is especially important to avoid possible mistakes that often arise when choosing a patterned floor tile. Scale floor with a patterned floor should not be evaluated on a single tile. You can see the picture in all its beauty only when it covers the whole area of ​​the room. In advance, you should study the catalogs offered by manufacturers.At the same time, it is necessary to select a picture based on the size of the room, since an overly large pattern will result in a visual constraint to the space.

If the idea of ​​the consumer is to focus on multi-colored wallpaper, but with the style he has not yet decided, then you should not prefer multi-colored patterns, as this can lead to a cacophony of colors.

Small black patterns are very organically combined with white tiles. If the black color is dominant, then there will be a need for frequent clean-ups, because even the smallest contaminants are clearly visible on a black background.

In general, the pattern should be in harmony with the furniture. The geometric shape of the picture should be identical to it, that is, a simple pattern should be chosen for the same simple set of furniture, and, for more luxurious furnishings, the pattern on the floor should have no less florid shapes.

The growth of popularity of artistic floor tiles due to the fact that this type of coating is significantly transformed by the simple geometry of the forms, and this option is becoming more accessible every year.

See how to lay tile with a pattern on the kitchen floor in the next video.

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