Inspiration & Helpful Tips for Your Home
Embarking on a tiling project — no matter how simple or small — can be both exciting and unnerving at the same time. What will work best? How many will you need? When can two styles mix, or can they?
We have suggestions that may give you the confidence to be imaginative with our diverse range of tiles. So read on and discover all the possibilities in your hands.
Bedroom
Why limit your choices to paint for the walls or terrazzo for the floors when you can do so much more to your bedrooms? Give your most private spaces a bit of a reboot or a generous splash of personality with our range of tiles.
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Practical Tip 1
Keeping It Simple
The rule of thumb for bedrooms is to have the floors and walls act as the springboard for creative ideas. Soft furnishings and furniture can do a lot to produce the ambience you fancy. Knowing a few simple tricks, using colour, texture and patterns will help you curate your favourite bedroom looks.
This modern-countryside bedroom plays its powdery grey flooring off the soft, pastel bedding of its fabric-padded bed, while its light-grey walls provide continuity to produce a delicate, soothing ambience.
Find the same inspiration in our Cemento range in Grey. Or, for a variation, try our Fossile range in Cenere or our Pavement range in Mist.
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Practical Tip 2
Scoring Attention
For those who like their bedrooms in unfussy, neutral shades but fret about visible particles and hair strands on floors, try using dramatic patterns with tiles or carpets. Not only do they cleverly conceal what you don’t want to see, they can spice up the personality of a given space.
This minimalist bedroom style goes for a striking, geometric floor pattern that can conceal particles which would otherwise show up easily on plain, white tiles.
To re-create this look, explore the hive-shape cuts of our Arizona range in White or Taupe. Or try a picket-fence design using our Navona range in Natural.
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Practical Tip 3
Spicing Things Up
A rustic tone can instantly invoke warmth especially if your bedroom employs plenty of glass and greys. Apart from rugs, earth-tone tiles are great for fostering cosiness and can be used as the foundation to style your bedroom with the exotic colours of the Aegean region.
Richly hued and casually romantic, this Mediterranean-inspired bedroom showcases a terracotta-style floor that works beautifully with its deep green wall and soft furnishings in cobalt blue and olive green.
Create your own version — starting with the floor — by selecting the Moroccan-inspired quatrefoil cuts of our Jerusalem Stone range in Taupe.
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Creative Tip 1
Pragmatic Minimalism
For a bedroom that can mirror this modern minimalist oasis of peace and calm, try to resist the temptation to clutter up the space. However, adding a personal touch by taking advantage of colour and decorative accents will give the space a spark of life.
For an earthy touch, try brown bedding, textured earth-tone rugs, metallic photo frames and other monochromatic knick-knacks.
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Creative Tip 2
Artsy & Rustic Chic
If your personal style is artsy and rustic, go Boho. Use pendant or fairy lights to set the tone. Be generous with hand-knitted draperies and blankets to impart that all-important vintage-chic. And for added effect, stack photographic prints against walls, or turn woven scarves and baskets into wall decor.
A few plants and a hammock will help complete the look nicely.
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Creative Tip 3
Modern Luxury
If this masterpiece in unassuming luxury is what you’re aiming for, try using long draperies and other soft furnishings in muted colours. Combine Victorian-style cabinets with retro chairs and tables that have been stylised and updated. And opt for unusual decorative accents like a large dressing mirror framed in silver, a wire-mannequin or easel.
A cluttered pendant chandelier will enhance the room’s overall elegance while a dramatic floor will help provide an interesting
focal point.
