Floor Tile Ranges from Tile Idea

Tiled floors are no longer limited to your bathroom and kitchen. Floor tiles are now commonly used in living spaces all over the house. They make an impressive and practical solution for any hallway or entrance area, especially when utilising the larger sized tiles that are available such as 90cm x 45cm and 60cm x 60cm.

The trend now is to have more open plan living areas within the house. The continuous flooring through these different living areas is particularly suited to floor tiles. This offers a practical and minimal maintenance solution for the kitchen and lend themselves nicely to a tiled floor and now with the advent of under floor heating systems they can feel warm and cosy underfoot too. Porcelain flott tiles are also used extensively and extremely successfully throughout the commercial world in showrooms, shopping malls, hairdressers and restaurants. The applications of tiled floors are endless, imagine how you could utilise floor tiles in your home.

Porcelain tiles are much harder wearing and stronger, allowing greater scope for using floor tiling throught the floored areas in your home. Many tiles are now manufactered using the porcelain process and combined with beautifull designs colours and effects add greatly to their usage. Pocelain is also extensively used for wall tiling and many rectangular porcelain tiles dual role for both wall and floor tiling.

Ceramic tiles are tiles produced in either white body or red body biscuit. This process gives a more cost effective way of tiling for your bathroom. In this case the floor tiles and the wall tiles are usually coordinating in terms of colour and pattern.but made from different materials in the body, as the strength of the body required for the floor tile is greater than that required for wall tile use.

Take a look at our different catagories of floor tiles and search for the effect that you are looking for. Search here in tileidea for Slate look tiles, or if you prefer Stone look tiles, Travertine effect tiles, there are many.

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