The visual appearance of walls within a space serves to characterise and often define the interior design. Our choices here create a lasting impression for the end user, and open up the door to, and dictate, the choice of furnishings, finishings and materials used.
Here are 5 tips to enhance interior design with wall tiles, compiled at The House of Tiles, offering insight into how best to utilise our products to create a space that makes a lasting impression, all of its own:
1. FEATURE WALLS
Feature walls are most commonly found in residential kitchens, bathrooms and living rooms – and on the commercial front, restaurants, bars, and lobbies. While feature walls portrayed something of a resurgence in the mid-nineties and early 2000’s, their popularity has tempered somewhat, but when done well, they can bet a powerful and really quite evocative addition to an interior space. Adding the decorative flourish to an interior that a feature wall represents, gives opportunity to perhaps indulge in a style or a colour scheme that departs from the norm, creating a point of difference and interest to the end user. One of the most important aspects of feature wall creation is the choice of wall itself. A large feature wall serves to completely reinvent the space, but then it can also be overbearing and detract from other features within the room in question. However, most interior designers will likely be able to identify a prime candidate feature wall within moments of assessing a room.
2. DESIGN TRENDS
As we all know, design trends come and go. What may be fresh and avant-garde today can become passé by tomorrow. With a tiled wall that embraces today’s style, a level of flexibility is provided that allows for a change whenever your mood dictates – or whenever fashion dictates. So embrace a trend with tiling a wall, and have that reassurance that in a few years’ time, if you need to refresh the style, it is relatively inexpensive and simple to do so.
3. MOULDINGS
Design is often all about that finishing touch, that je ne sais quoi, if you like. Tiled areas can benefit greatly from the add-ons we offer, such as mouldings and skirtings, which are often overlooked by designers – maybe because they are unaware that they even exist. These finishing touches can make a good design look great, and if you haven’t before thought about incorporating border tiles, mouldings or skirting tiles, they really do provide an excellent framing for a design, highlighting the intricacy and level of finish. Finishing touches are so important, especially in interiors. If you are tiling a difficult area we have a whole host of skirting, mouldings and finishing pieces that will help towards perfection. If you haven’t considered mouldings or border tiles, take some time to look through the options we have, as they are brilliant for framing, highlighting and finishing.
4. MIX AND MATCH
Creative use of different tile colours, styles and even ranges really can work if you’ve got an eye for it. These days, creative design in tile combinations reaches far beyond the traditional monochrome chessboard concept for floors (although that is still a classic), and there are some really innovative and striking approaches to this concept that can be found.
5. SMALLER SPACES
Smaller spaces are perfect if you’re looking to be slightly bolder and courageous with your colour choices. Hallways and cloakrooms offer all kinds of possibilities when it comes to the selection of darker or more striking colour schemes that may not be appropriate for larger room in which one spends more time. Why not express yourself?