Tile Inspired

Bedrooms
The bedroom is the focus for your private space within your home. In design terms, it offers extremely exciting opportunities as it's one of the few areas, along with the bathroom, where you can design with all the body's senses in mind.

Combine natural stone or porcelain stoneware tiling with an undertile heating system and strategically placed rugs for a tactile, warm and inviting room.

Bathrooms
Gone are the days when the bathroom was simply the smallest, most functional room in the house. A beautiful bathroom will add significant value to your home and it's a real must-have modern luxury. It can be a place that invigorates you in the morning and soothes away your troubles in the evening. So don't miss out on the opportunity to make it something really special.

Tiles can be used in a bathroom to contrast or match your bathroom suite. Large format, light-coloured tiles make small rooms look bigger. Tiled floors are by far the most hygienic option for busy bathrooms so that splashes and spills can simply be mopped up. Plus, most tiles nowadays have a good degree of natural slip resistance and specialist slip-resistant tiles are available. Undertile heating can also be installed for extra comfort.

Mosaics are wonderful for wet rooms, where the bathroom is the shower enclosure and the water runs into a drain in the floor. Mosaics mould themselves to the shape of walls and floors, creating an illusion of space. Glass or ceramic mosaics in blues and greens look wonderful teamed with metallic borders or decorative strips (thin strips of ceramic, metal or glass that form a horizontal line or border, often between one colour of tile and another). Tiles are wonderful for shower areas, but if you're installing a powerful shower you'll need to ensure that the whole area is made waterproof with a specialist ‘tanking' system. Just ask a member of our sales team for further advice.

Kitchens
With more and more people nowadays entertaining at home, kitchens are fast becoming one of the key features of any house. Not only does a beautiful kitchen contribute to the value of a property, but it's also the focal point of a home.

Tiles are ideal for kitchen floors as they're easy to clean and very hard wearing. For a modern, crisp, minimalist look, large format, pale-coloured floor tiles can be teamed with plain wall tiles. If you're more of a traditionalist you may prefer the rich, warm tones of terracotta or quarry tiles teamed with small glazed wall tiles featuring an occasional relief motif of fruit or flowers.

Dining Rooms
In the modern home, dining at home has become a more informal, fun affair. Today's dining space today is much more likely to be open plan, linked with another room and often used for all sorts of purposes.

Tiling your kitchen floor and then carrying the same tile through into the dining room creates an illusion of space and links the two rooms.

Living Rooms
Your living room is a multifunctional area that says a lot about your personal sense of style and incorporates activates such as relaxation, entertainment and entertaining.

Porcelain stoneware floor tiles combined with an undertile heating system create a beautifully warm, stylish and inviting room, whilst added floor rugs enhance comfort and give a splash of colour.

Gardens, Pools & Conservatories
Conservatories look wonderful with a ceramic floor and they're practical too - muddy foot or paw prints from the garden can be quickly wiped away with a cloth or mop.

If you continue your conservatory floor tiles through onto the patio (if they're frost resistant), with a few carefully placed pot plants inside and out, you won't be able to tell where the house ends and the garden begins.

Corridors & Hallways
First impressions really do count and if you watch any of the many television programmes about selling and buying houses, you'll know just how important the hallway is. As the first areas any visitor experiences, and the places you see every day as you enter and leave your home, it's important to let them reflect a little of who you are.

There's nothing quite as impressive as a beautiful tiled floor in your hallway. However, you need to remember that hallways see a lot of activity and will really be put through their paces. A hardwearing and easy-to-clean ceramic or natural-stone floor, with a rug for a splash of colour, will make this space both functional and welcoming.

Home Office
Increasingly, our homes are under more and more pressure to incorporate new functions, such as working from home. But a home office doesn't have to look like just an office: boring, functional and uninspiring. It can be light, energetic, invigorating, calming and specifically designed to suit your needs.

But before you plump for a fluffy carpet, do consider a few practicalities! Computers and fax machines have fans that circulate air around their systems, and although you can vacuum regularly it's inevitable that hairs and dust will get sucked into your equipment. Therefore a cleaner, more dust-free surface than carpet may be better, such as natural stone or ceramic tiles.