Ceramic tile designs for the home

With so much choice available on the market these days, introducing ceramic tile designs into your home couldn't be easier. It isn't just a matter of tiling floors and splash-backs. Look into the world of tiling, and this opens up a whole new dimension of decoration for the home, which you, as a reader, may never have thought of before. From small projects, right through to accents, ceramic tiles allow you to introduce individualism into the home.

Standard floor tiling made creative.

Just because most people use one standard tile throughout the flooring area of a home doesn't mean you have to do the same. If you draw a floor plan, often you can not only create a wonderfully individual floor using different colored ceramic tiles, but you can also add accents to that floor to make it look great, even though it may be minimal in cost. Doing a scaled drawing of the floor helps to set out the design to fit in with awkward spaces and a two color design can be enhanced with a border. Often by doing this, you can estimate how much tiling you need and make great savings by buying end of lines which are cheaper because it is not often that people want small quantities.


Standard wall tiling made to fit your style.


Moroccan tiles are wonderful, though not many of us can afford to tile a whole wall with these delicately styled tiles with an ethnic history. The way to get around this is to buy a few of them and to measure your wall tiling project to incorporate a panel. The panel can be made up of any number of tiles, and you can accent this by the use of pencil tiles in a great contrast to give you a featured effect.


Tunisian hand painted tiles.


If you do a Google search, there are many suppliers of these tiles. They make wonderful features and can even be used as pictures, by pasting the tiles onto a board and hanging as a traditional picture. One of the most common uses for these is just outside the front door as a feature panel, and these look stunning.


Adding a splash of color.


People seem to shy away from color, though ceramic tiles these days offer so many varieties that it is a shame not to try them out. If you are a little shy of too much change, why not introduce accented borders to a dull bathroom? These tiles are relatively inexpensive and can make the difference in presentation which you may be looking for.


Small projects in the home.


Tiles are amazing. Even broken ones have uses for mosaic. Having a mosaic feature on a wall or piece of furniture can look stunning. Here, draw out your design and decide the colors which you wish to incorporate. You can often buy end of stock tiles and then carefully snip these to sizes you require. It takes a bit of practice, but the one nice thing about mosaic is that as long as you apply the pieces in a flat uniform manner, then faults in cutting will usually hide in when you do the grouting.


Ceramics are wonderful. If you look at the work of Gaudi in Barcelona, the lasting beauty of ceramic displays itself in a manner that can leave you with no doubt that ceramic tiles offer versatility, color, looks and classic style which is incomparable in home decoration. All you need is a little bit of experimentation and a lot of patience, and the reward you feel is in standing back and looking at the project knowing that your choice was a wise one.