Choosing Tile Flooring
Your tile flooring choice should be tied directly to your lifestyle. If you tend to kick off your shoes as soon as you enter the home and don’t have pets that track in dirt, your needs will differ from those of a family with kids and dogs.
Choosing the right tile and grout colors for your floor will take attention and focus. You’re assigning a color to a large portion of your home’s real estate, and you want it to work with your decor choices now and in the future.
Consider your current furniture. If you love warm brown leather furniture and polished wood, you’ll want a warm floor tile to incorporate your design choices. A grey slate tile may be the best option if you prefer cool colors.
If anyone in your home struggles with allergies, consider extending tile use throughout your home. Tile doesn’t hold onto allergens like carpet does. Rugs can be put down over tile in bedrooms and easily removed and cleaned during allergy trigger season.
Tile from Room to Room
Once you choose a floor tile and grout tone, you can easily select a tile to travel from room to room. Your kitchen tile flooring can easily flow, or you can change up the color intensity. Try to combine tile, from countertop to bathroom, in a way that lightens on the way up.
Your tile backsplash choices will actually impact the restfulness of the room. It’s easy to overlook tile that’s been laid flat, such as tile on the countertop or floor, but tile on the wall will catch the eye. Do you want a bold pattern of glass tile or something more restful?
A restful backsplash of simple tiles with matching grout will allow the eye to pass over it. This kitchen tile pattern and color combination can also be added as a wainscot feature in utility rooms or the hall leading from the garage into the house.
If you have a door where all the household members, both two-footed and four-footed, come through and hang up coats, bookbags, and briefcases, adding a wainscot tile can make the space much easier to manage and clean.
Bathroom Tile Choices
Tile can be used on multiple surfaces in your bathroom. Your tub and shower surround can easily be tiled, both for beauty and for hygienic effect. To reduce the risk of dulling build-up, clean the tile quickly with a microfiber cloth once a week.
Your bathroom tile options can also be used on the floor. Smaller tiles are easier to lay in smaller rooms, but you can easily find tiles in the same color family as your entryway, kitchen, and any other room. Consider expanding the use of these floor tiles to your bathroom countertop or vanity and completing the space with a drop-in sink.
Surround Yourself in Tile Before You Choose
When choosing tile for your house, take the time to visit a tile showroom before making your choices. One sample tile may look great on the shelf of a big box store, but
- increased across the space, you may find the pattern is too busy
- you’ll know about availability on your entire package selection, not one tile at a time
- your home deserves a unique family of products to reflect the unique people who live there!
Take the time to visit a floor tile showroom in Palo Alto to expand your understanding of what’s possible. The satisfaction you could enjoy in your home will be worth this step.
After time in a tile showroom, you’ll realize that you can combine tile to bring your whole house together. You can choose a color palette of paint choices that will work with whatever tone of tile, whether warm or cool.
Best of all, once you’ve reviewed all your options, you can make the best choice for you, your family, and your future. Renovation is fun and creative but also messy, expensive, and disruptive. With the right color choice of kitchen tile, bathroom tile, and a uniform tile backsplash, you can enjoy durability and easy cleaning and easily change the look of the space with paint.
Visit us in the Bay Area at one of our floor tile showrooms in Palo Alto and immerse yourself in what’s possible with tile. Celebrate the chance to install something solid, permanent, and beautiful.
