Large size ceramic tiles: beautiful examples in the interior

When making repairs, the prevailing number of consumers choose ceramic tiles as a facing material, appreciating its functionality and appearance. The right choice of cladding - a pledge of well-conducted finishing work in the room. Consider a non-standard, but spectacular version of ceramic tiles - large size. It is not often used in the repair, in working with it requires a special approach. Nevertheless, the tile looks very advantageous.

Which manufacturers are better?

Each buyer inevitably faces this question when choosing a tile. Fortunately, there are not so many manufacturers, but the only ideal does not exist.

There will always be satisfied and dissatisfied with the color gamut, materials, sizes, quality of materials.

Today there are a certain number of leading producing countries:

For many years, Spain is considered to be the undisputed leader in the production of ceramics. The main advantages are beauty and high quality products.

The following companies are best known:

Nvogres;
Aparisi;
Ceramica;
Pamesa;
Lrd Ceramica.

Products made by Italians amaze with their grace, refinement and harmony. As a basis for their masterpieces, they use white clay exported from Ukraine.

Among the most popular companies are:

Valverde;
Tilegres;
Salni;
Fap;
Ceramiche Riccheti.

Impress with their elegant models. France (France Alfa, Cerabati), Portugal (Kerion Mosaics and Gresart). Turkey has long been famous for its famous hamam and tile, revealing the national baths (VitrA Arkitekt, Kaleseramik). Popular mosaic options from China (Natural Mosaic, Fiorano, New Zhong). To compete in quality with the Spanish and Italian are capable of German manufacturers (Steuler, Agrob Buchtal, Boizenburg).
Kerama marazzi - Russian manufacturer, offering various collections of tiles, which, rather, resemble a world atlas. Here and England with France, and India, and Italy, and the countries of Scandinavia, embodied in ceramics with all the features inherent only to them.

Cersanit tile widespread in the CIS. The company offers over 40 collections of both budget and luxury tiles.

Special features

An important characteristic of ceramic tile is its format: the shape and size of the product. Modern manufacturers produce a variety of sizes of ceramics - from minimum to large size. When choosing, you should be aware that often the dimensions of the tile stated on the label have errors. This is not a marriage, but features of the clay from which pottery is made. As you know, during firing, this substance is able to slightly change its size.

According to international standards, an error of up to 5-7 mm is possible, and this discrepancy is found even in leading Italian or Spanish models. The actual size is called the caliber and is indicated on the packaging next to the nominal.

Gone are the days when tiles of standard sizes 20x20 and 30x30 cm dominated everywhere and everywhere. For the last 15 years, another trend has taken root in the world of ceramic tiles: the more, the better. So, the size of the tiles slowly but surely began to increase. At first, it was designed for finishing large shopping centers, and its size 60x60 cm pleased builders with the possibility of faster installation.After 2007, the demand for large tiles increased, and it began to produce for private houses and apartments. Each self-respecting factory considered it their duty to include in the range at least a few lines of large-size models.

Today, the size of 30x30 is no longer relevant, tiles of this format are even discontinued at many factories. The most popular sizes are 30x90 and 40x80 cm.

The main advantages of large tile sizes are:

the large size helps to visually increase the space of the room due to a much smaller number of seams;
similar tiles are much more affordable than natural stone tiles, and the interior looks just as good;
it is much easier to lay, and the material consumption is much less;
it is possible to lay out complex shapes on different surfaces, creating an unusual visual effect;
most environmentally friendly;
durable;
refractory;
resistant to various chemicals;
tiled material does not conduct electricity;
easy to care for.

Ceramic tiles of large sizes are used for finishing the kitchen, bathroom, living room, offices, offices. They put it on the floor and revetted the walls.

Work with such material, of course, has its own characteristics. First, styling is a particularly laborious process; it requires skills. Secondly, given the weight of the web, a special glue is required for fastening. It must be sufficiently elastic and at the same time reliable. Thirdly, the surface on which the tile will be laid should be leveled with perfect accuracy, since all the roughness will be immediately noticeable. Moreover, such products do not like too high humidity.

Color solutions

The color scheme significantly affects the overall appearance of the room. It should not be poisonous, irritate the eyes. An important condition is the comfort of the room to be equipped so that there is a feeling of coziness and relaxation there. With this cope correctly chosen color solution.

White - neutral, universal color. It may seem boring, but it is this shade that is best able to visually expand a small room. In addition, white tile combines perfectly with any other shades and textures. You should avoid hospital white, choosing creamy, milky shades.
The black - the complete opposite of the previous, visually reduces space, making it darker. Suitable in large rooms, as well as in cases where design requires.

Blue, green, blue create a feeling of coolness. They look more appropriate in the bathroom, but are able to decorate any interior.
Pastel shades. Warm and cold shades of dull colors pacify and create a stylish frame. Perfect combination of pastel with bright, if they belong to the same color.
Woody and marble will give respectability.
Juicy and bright (red, turquoise, blue, orange) are good for creating accents.

For kitchen

The kitchen is the “private office” of any woman, and the rest of the family members spend a lot of time there. For maximum comfort, you should pay attention to a large tile for cladding, since all its advantages (durability, strength, environmental friendliness, ease of maintenance, aesthetics) ideally meet all the functional requirements of the room. Tiles are of two main types: matte and glossy (polished).

When choosing, it should be borne in mind that polished, though durable,but has a fairly low friction, it is easy to slip on it. Matte tiles do not slip, but have lower moisture resistance.

Choose light shades. White color is universal, it is suitable for any design. Part of the kitchen wall covered with tiles is called an apron. It protects the walls in places of the greatest external negative impact (splashes of water, grease, soot). For the apron is best to choose widescreen porcelain. For grouting is to pick up antifungal fillers. To imitate the popular 10x10 size, manufacturers go to the trick: they create a large tile with grooves at the joints.

For bathroom

The large tile fits perfectly into the minimalism of the bathroom. Large-format material is able to cover a large area with a minimum number of seams, and therefore reduce the penetration of moisture. Usually use tiles from 40x40 cm to 300x60 cm. It is necessary to correlate the size of the bathroom and tile. A large tile in a small room, on the contrary, narrows the room, but the interior of the bath in a classic style, it perfectly emphasizes. For example, the dark tile in the bathroom of the Italian company Fap looks so beautiful and expensive.

Laying large tiles in the bathroom is troublesome. The prepared surfaces of the walls or the floor should be perfectly smooth, and work with the plates themselves should be done extremely carefully, since large-sized tiles are thinner than usual, more fragile, but much more difficult. If we talk about giants in size 4x4 or 6x6 meters, then you need at least two people to transport the sheet, and use special carrying.

Beautiful interior solutions

The leaders in the manufacture of ceramics are the Italians. Indisputable their primacy in the production of large format tiles. Simply fascinating wall beauty from the Italian company Fiandre in the size of 1.5x3 m.