How to choose the BEST TILE FOR EVERY ROOM in your home

In this article, you’ll find how to choose the best tile for every room in your home? 

how to choose the right tile for a new house, including the size, the material, and how they should match the design of your home. As a Top Porcelain and Ceramic Tiles Exporter and Manufacturer, we provide all the information about this. And we’re gonna talk about choosing a tile for your new home. So, when we say choosing tile, do you mean floor and wall, right? – Yes, for sure. So I mean, in your home you have lots of floor tile, as well as wall tile, they’re used in different areas, but generally tile encompasses both floor and wall. – And what are the materials, are they different for wall or floor, or is it the same? – You can use a lot of the same materials. Porcelain, ceramic, they can be used on both floor and wall. There are some particular materials that you wanna use for only the wall, that would be glass tile. It’s not something you wanna put on the floor, it can be slippery, it can break, it can crack, that kind of thing, so moving to your ceramics and your porcelains are a little bit better for both applications. 

Choosing Floor Tiles

When you’re choosing a floor tile, which one would you recommend in terms of, easier maintenance, and pretty easy to install? – So both porcelain and ceramic are the most common.  Porcelain is a little bit more durable, not as porous, you don’t have to worry about water absorption, that kind of thing. A little bit higher price point as well, so both work for those applications. If you can fit the porcelain in your budget, I would go that way, but people use ceramic all the time and it’s just fine. 

Choosing Wall Tiles

How about your wall? – For your wall, I mean again, these are gonna be your lower price points, of course, than our ceramic versus glass, we even have a marble tile here that’s getting into the more detailed, more pattern, a little bit fancier. Those things are great for back splashes, you can use them in small spaces and you don’t have to worry about staining as much as you would for a larger surface. – Probably can’t use the marble for your floor, can you? – You can, but we don’t recommend it because maintenance would be a big thing with the marble tile, sealing, that kind of thing. So, you can use it, it’s more expensive, but not our first recommendation.

How would you go about choosing the best one for your home? You’d have to look at your pallet, your budget, your lifestyle. You might want something a little bit more durable. If you do something a little bit more polished like this, you worry about slipping, it may not be the best application in somewhere like a bathroom. So I think kind of looking at all those factors to figure out what suits your needs best and then sort of checking those boxes off.

How about the different tiles for each room? In terms of choosing the right one for the right room? – we mean, a lot of that would have to do with color, too. In your entry, it’s probably where you put your muddy boots, you might not want something as clean and white as this. That may be something that’s a bit more suited for a bathroom. Scale, the size of them, too. Maybe in a bathroom, it’s a little bit of a smaller area, you want a smaller scale tile, whereas in a larger space, you might want something a little bit larger to suit how large that space is. – And when you talk about color, how do you match that up with the rest of your home decor?

Some people like contrast, you could do a high contrast, darker than the walls, lighter than the walls, if you want your space to feel a little bit larger, kind of matching that same tone with the walls will make it all blend and feel a little bit bigger. It kind of boils down to personal preference and then other things you have working in that pallet already. – And if you want more color options in tiles, you can visit newark ceramic. 

When would you actually use different materials for the different rooms? Tiles are the most durable, most versatile, easiest to clean, easiest to maintain. But you could go into something a little bit fancier, a little bit more special in certain areas. So people kind of emphasize that on back splashes and bathrooms, maybe in the en suite, or the kitchen backsplash that’s kind of a focal point for a lot of people. So doing something a little bit more intricate is generally maybe for a more kitchen suited area versus bathroom floor, that kind of thing. 

Let’s go back to the floor. Should they be lighter or darker than the walls? If you want to keep that, kind of, seamless, flowing look, you can do something similar to the wall color. Some people do like a dark, dark tile on the floor. It hides a little bit more dirt. Some people like that white, light, bright feeling, so it’s kind of a personal preference in choosing tile for a new home? – We’d say a big takeaway is scale. You can play with lots of different scales, we’ve a collection of tiles from 600 X 600 mm to 1200 X 2400 mm.  The different sizes really play to your advantage, whether you’re looking to make the space feel wider, feel longer, feel taller. If you want to create interesting patterns with different sizes of tiles, different colors, that’s really something you can do with the different scale of tiles. 

The question we have for you is, what material did you use in terms of installing your new tile and why? Let us know in the comment below. If you wanna know more about tiles and countertops, check out this collection on Newark Ceramic.