When deciding to renovate your home, selecting flooring is always a matter that requires much attention. Choosing the most suitable floor for a room is not immediate, but requires several considerations. Let’s explore together how to renovate your home and replace floors, optimally combining tile colors and patterns.
Demolish or Cover Old Flooring?
When deciding to renovate your home and replace floors, there are many considerations to make. First, you’ll need to evaluate whether to demolish or cover the old flooring. In this regard, it will be essential to consider the condition of the existing flooring. If it’s in irreparable condition, it will necessarily have to be demolished. The same applies if there’s a need to renovate or replace bathroom systems, such as in the case of old pipes, or if you want to add a new radiant heating system. In other cases, you can consider covering the flooring, opting to cover the old surface with a new one.
Considerations to Make before Choosing a Floor
Even when choosing a floor, various estimates need to be made. A floor decisively determines the style and atmosphere of a space. Moreover, the choice of materials to cover surfaces will play a fundamental role in terms of daily use and maintenance of the flooring. For this reason, it’s important to ask yourself:
- What is the function of the room to be floored?
- Is the room well-lit or dark?
- Are there children or pets in the house that could damage delicate floors?
Why Choose Tiles
Covering the floor or walls of a room with tiles is an excellent solution. Ceramic tiles offer, in fact, significant advantages over other materials in terms of performance, safety, environmental respect, and ease of maintenance.
They are resistant to wear and scratches, do not fear water, humidity, and steam. They withstand high temperatures and are ideal for underfloor heating. They offer a wide variety of formats in terms of both size and shape. They lend themselves well to deeper cleaning and do not require special maintenance.
Color and Geometry
Tiles lend themselves excellently to sophisticated and imaginative geometric arrangements. Generally, tiles have various rectangular, square, and hexagonal shapes, but can adapt to different needs. They exist in every size. Traditionally, tiles are used mainly to cover kitchen and bathroom surfaces. They are a very characteristic element of Interior Design, particularly of the Fifties and Sixties style. In recent times, they are being used in increasingly innovative ways, exploiting the versatility, durability, and artistic potential they offer.
Tile Laying Patterns
Let’s look at some of the most classic solutions for arranging tiles according to your taste and the structure of the room you intend to renovate:
- Straight lay: tiles are arranged parallel to the walls of the room. This solution is the most classic and versatile. It’s the ideal choice for rooms with a contemporary and minimalist style, especially if using large format slabs, particularly square ones, minimizing the presence of grout lines.
- Running bond: tiles are positioned in parallel, but staggered. This style is particularly suitable for the use of rectangular tiles of various sizes.
- Diagonal lay: tiles are positioned at a 45° angle to the walls. This choice is most functional when the walls of a room are not perfectly perpendicular. In this way, the eye will not perceive the geometric irregularity of the room. The solution is perfect for rustic style, especially using tiles that recall the effect of stone or terracotta.
- Herringbone pattern: tiles are arranged according to a very dynamic pattern, ideal for rectangular tiles of reduced dimensions. The herringbone pattern is characterized by several variants. This style is ideal for various types of vintage environments.
- Alternative patterns: tiles lend themselves to very creative uses. By alternating shapes and colors, it’s possible to create floors with a colored frame, or with a different texture compared to the central part of the room. This way, an effect similar to that of a carpet will be created. Those who want to dare can also opt for Greek frets, or even rosettes.
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