Floor Tiles
From the sophisticated beauty of granite and marble tiling to the durability of vinyl composition floor tiles and solid vinyl tile, there are floor tiles to match individual taste, budget, furnishing style, and color scheme.
Natural tile flooring, whether ceramic or stone, is high cost flooring compared to other flooring styles, yet is hard-wearing and impervious to water, mud and grease. Resilient flooring is available in patterns that imitate ceramic or natural stone and come in various sizes. This type of flooring of tile is easy to install because it can be put down over almost any other type of flooring and requires little preparation. The other advantages include its relatively inexpensiveness, durability, easy to keep clean feature, waterproof ability and stain resistance.
Some people feel that tiled flooring has the disadvantages of being cold underfoot. Things dropped on tiled surfaces are more likely to break, and in the bathroom, flooring can be slippery. However, tiled flooring takes to customized designs, unique glazes, and special effects with ease. Tiles can be used in a combination of colors, textures and patterns to create flooring designs limited only by imagination. Here are some tile ideas to redesign your existing home or to incorporate in your new home or office.
- Use subtle gradations in color across the entire kitchen or bathroom floor to create a unique floor surface.
- Frame the perimeter of the room with floor tiles in a different or contrasting hue or pattern from the tiles used on the rest of the floor.
- You can create your own "tile rug" by using ordinary stock tiles and giving expression to your own original pattern.
- The tiled floor of the bathroom or kitchen can be offset with a border of tile insets in the flooring.
- You can also design a textured floor pattern that combines ceramic tile with other tiles, such as granite and marble.