Patterned tiles: beautiful solutions for your interior

Today there is a huge variety of all kinds of patterned tiles: there are simple options, there are exquisite and even unique, custom-made products. It can be very difficult to make a decision precisely because the quality and stylistic elaboration are very high everywhere. It remains only to focus on the features of specific premises and the specifics of the appearance of the tiles. Then you will not make any mistakes when choosing them.

Most often, bathrooms are decorated with ceramic tiles, and there you must always look for a balance between external originality and the canons of style, the appropriateness of a particular solution in the interior. With the help of artificial lighting (well-chosen, of course), the patterned tile acquires a slightly different shade than it has on the stand or on the street. Consider this always both when choosing the material and when designing the bathroom itself. The vertical ornament lifts the room up and makes it visually more spacious than it really is.

As with any other finishing material, you need to avoid excessive enthusiasm for dark tones. They will only aggravate the problem of insufficient area, but light colors will help to externally expand the space. The choice of ceramic tiles with a large bright pattern will be a gross mistake, except in rare cases. To use it in a typical apartment, where there seems to be very little space already, means to beat on your own interest.

But if we leave openly weak options "overboard", what will remain? Not so unattractive decoration products: the classic type of design, in which the upper part of the wall is made lighter than the lower one (both with the use of special curb elements and without them) looks good in any external environment. If you want to take a chance and try a more daring design, you can choose a solid color tile for some parts of the room, and put a finishing material with an attractive ornament on others.

Tiles with an oriental pattern are bright and expressive, they look exotic and certainly cannot be considered some kind of stereotyped move. Wall and floor panels should be decorated in the most juicy and catchy tones, then the composition will be perceived much better.

Country style will suit fans of a wide variety of subjects:

• Meadow and field grasses and flowers.
• Wheat fields.
• Ocean expanses.

Tile can be "not like itself", that is, imitate the appearance of other materials. It is possible to reproduce wood and laminate strips, natural leather and stone, golden surfaces.

If you want to do more than just use the geometric pattern you like, you should carefully consider for what specific purpose the tile will be used:

• Horizontal patterns lengthen the wall, while you can choose any of the basic geometric shapes - rhombus, oval, triangle.An alternative to them are three-dimensional compositions and complex ornaments that can fulfill the same role. Instead of a simple vertical pattern to visually lift the ceiling, alternating stripes of tiles painted in restrained and bright shades, in which pairs of mutually contrasting ornament colors are used, work well.

• If the room is both narrow and long, dark-colored wall tiles laid out at the end of the room will visually reduce the size of the corridor and make the wall closer to the observer, allowing you to feel yourself not in a rectangular, but in a square space.

• The combination of white and black, dark blue and gold, sandy and brown colors helps to add spice and intrigue to the room, and if you wish, you can combine any light and dark tones at your discretion. When such a move is used in small rooms, the ornament should be made smaller and less bright, otherwise there will be a feeling of constriction and lack of space.

• Tiles with floral prints find a justified use even in the classic "masculine" interior. Of course, we are not talking about banal romantic daisies, but even without them there are many attractive solutions. So, in a small area, it is worth using a small print, which is as easy as possible in execution. Choose a strong or pronounced accent on a certain part of the room or a point plot within the overall decor. Violation of this rule leads to bad taste and unnatural design.

• It is advisable to use flower panels as a powerful accent move. The details of the composition occupy individual tiles, and when they are brought together, a complete picture is obtained. Depending on the intention of the designers and other nuances, the number of tiles in one element is usually from 2 to 10 pieces. The freesize format means two, three or four tiles with the main picture, laid out vertically until the required height is reached. Three-dimensional blocks with flower plots are very attractive and realistic, allowing you to make a unique look in the room.

Their patterned variety is chosen for a variety of reasons. Applying a pattern to a floor covering makes any dirt less visible than on a uniform background. In addition, many people are attracted by the opportunity to make the interior livelier and even more unique.

The panel on the floor can be formed by four tiles, on which a pattern is applied in a square or round design. Patchwork designs tailored to your personal preference can look just as good. A discreet abstract drawing - all kinds of curls and turns, plant patterns are best combined with similar motifs on the walls.

If the floor consists of repeating elements, if a series of diagonal stripes is used, then you can create a truly original combination by applying the herringbone or zigzag styling options.

If the simplest blue tile, even with an exquisite look, no longer satisfies you or does not seem organic enough, you should take a closer look at the options with photo printing. It is important to choose the appropriate option for applying the image: the application of images with firing and the decal technique, which will keep the image for up to half a century, will be out of competition for a long time.

Neither sublimation nor UV printing can yet achieve the required stability. under the influence of mechanical stress and various substances. If the choice is made in favor of kiln firing, a batch of tiles that do not initially have any patterns is taken as the starting material.

If the image seems too large, the technology allows you to split one image into a couple of tiles or even more. In some cases, it is possible to carry out two or three test samples, according to which it is best to select the exact color. For firing, you will have to pay from 9 to 13 thousand rubles. for each square of coverage, depending on how large the batch is ordered.

The sublimation technique will require you to pay 1.5-3 thousand rubles for the same area, but take into account the costs of blanks, as well as an increase in payment for a piece order. Ultraviolet printing allows you to get the desired image for only 1000 rubles, but the durability of the applied image is too low, it does not exceed six months, even with the strictest adherence to technology.

Helpful hints:

• Although the panels are very popular, you need to be aware of the features of this option in order to avoid mistakes. In addition to simple graphic images, modern techniques allow the formation of large-scale photo collages. It is recommended to use tiles from no more than one collection at a time for each room, so that there is no inconsistency in appearance.
• With the help of tiles, you can design single elements and add those semantic accents that you consider necessary in a particular case. This design is recommended for Provencal bathrooms, and the organicity of the combination is so great that you don't even need to look for other ways to decorate the space.

• Borders or small-sized rectangles are designed to add new motives to the decoration or divide, make existing plots less catchy. The most attractive is the border, which is bordered by a strip with a gold, silver or bronze color. In some cases, expensive collections may even include jewelry crystals. There are options for laying borders under the very ceiling, like a plinth, you can form frames from them. These are the steps that help create an impressive picture.

• If you want ceramic tiles to look really original and in line with the latest design trends, take those collections that have triangular blocks. Hexagonal tiles, "hourglass", octagons and so on are becoming fashionable now. The triangular version of the pattern is recommended to be used in a high-tech or minimalist setting; this ornament also looks good against the background of original designer furniture and decorative elements.

Finally, images with a tropical flavor fit well with the Asian interior; you can choose a design with both exotic animals and fancy plants.

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