Bathroom design and tiling

A bathroom is a permanent premises in which a person and his family spend a lot of time. When carrying out repairs, many factors must be taken into account, including her style. It is determined by adding the taste characteristics of each representative of the family circle, including the owner of the outbreak. The style of the bathroom can be almost any, the main thing, if it was chosen, you must follow it until all repairs are completed.

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Most often, designer bathrooms are made in country style (village style), spa style and marine style:

• Village style (country): the interior uses textile canopies, wildflowers in plain, simple pots, canvases with landscapes demonstrating village life. When facing, tiles of dark and gray shades, sometimes green and blue colors, are used.
  

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• Spa style: the interior uses small vases with improvised flower bouquets, candles and sea pebbles (notorious or decorative), wicker baskets with sets of detergents that may be needed at the time of the SPA-procedures, wood elements fit in well. When facing, tiles of brown, blue, blue and gray colors, including their shades, are used.
  

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• Marine style: the interior uses mirrored interior items, including mirrors and shelves, turquoise or aqua curtains, items assigned to the attributes of the sea and beach holidays. Lining, as a rule, occurs with tiles of blue and pale blue, sometimes light brown, having a combination with sand.

Each presented style of the interior of the bathroom has its own characteristics, a peculiar subtext of comfort. For its arrangement, it is necessary to choose the right finishing materials, including wall and floor tiles, install a bath or shower, combined with the color grace of the overall interior.

When carrying out repairs, many factors must be taken into account, including her style.

The choice of tiles for the bathroom

Tiles, presented on the market today, and the manufactured company, presented in a satisfactory wide assortment. It is different both in the price segment and in its appearance. For example, the most common is:

• Ceramic tile
• Mosaic tiles;
• Porcelain tile;
• Glass tile.
  

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Each model of facing tile presented above has its own distinctive features, including price level. For example, the most expensive and less popular should be considered porcelain and glass tiles, mosaic and ceramic less expensive and more popular.

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Advantages of tiles

The tile has high moisture resistance, which allows it to lead among the materials used for facing bathrooms, showers and latrines. It has a high level of resistance to humidity, is not subject to water wear.

The tile has high moisture resistance

Tile Facts:

• Tiles have increased strength and durability.But this is provided that at the time and after its laying, for cleaning and washing the tiles, mixtures and substances with aggressive properties were not used. The average life of the tiles varies from 30 to 70 years, provided that it is properly laid and subsequently processed / cleaned.
  

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• Tiles are good in terms of their practicality. Caring for her does not take much time. The tile itself can withstand the effects of chemicals that differ in a small and medium degree of aggressiveness (most detergents).
• Tiles, even after decades, do not lose their pristine appearance. Drawings on it and images are not erased even after 10-15 years of use. This is taking into account that the tiles are laid in a passable place of an apartment and a private house, a public place: a bathroom, a shower and a toilet.
  

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• Tiles, even after a long time, are not subject to fading, their color is not subject to abrasion.
• Tiles are presented in a wide color segment, variety prevails in its textures, colors are striking in their versatility and modernity.

The main advantages of facing tiles:

• Diversity: it is represented in a fairly wide variety, there are both domestic and foreign production;
• Versatility: it comes in interesting colors, with multifaceted patterns and promising lines;
  

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• Uniqueness: if necessary, you can make an order for the production of a unique tile, one of a kind.
• Availability: you can buy tiles in the online store, offline store, in the construction warehouse, order directly from the manufacturer.
  

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Facing tiles stand out for their versatility of use, it can be used in bathrooms and showers, laid in kitchen and dining rooms.

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Disadvantages of tiles

The process of installing tiles takes a lot of time, for the competent conduct of this task requires appropriate knowledge, skills and abilities. When installing the tiles, even small flaws of the floor surfaces (floor), their positive qualities are taken into account.

Bathroom tile design

When completing the installation of facing tiles in 90% of cases, it is necessary to contact professional profile masters who are well versed in this direction, able to perform the necessary work at a high level and the right quality. The price of these works varies depending on the region; it is high in 70% of cases.

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Facing tiles enclose seams and joints. When installing tiles of small sizes, the number of such joints and joints increases, it becomes more difficult to process them with a moisture-resistant grout. As a result of this, darkening appears on the grout, which leads to its gradual decay, the formation of fungus. Therefore, a timely processing of darkening surfaces with

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specialized chemical mixtures (antiseptic agents).

Ceramic tile

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Ceramic tile belongs to the category of the most popular and in demand on the market, it is often called tile. This tile has a satisfactory low cost, while it is presented in a very wide color, stylistic and uniform assortment.

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Ceramic tiles are presented in a figured style (bright colors and light colors), cotto style (distinctive and original brick colors), clinker style (complex geometric shapes and dark shades).

Ceramic tile is one of the most popular and sought after in the market.

Mosaic tiles

It has characteristic positive characteristics of ceramic tiles. The only difference is in greater density, and the ability to use mosaic tiles for finishing work on various surfaces.

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Mosaic tiles are often used for lining the base of the bathtub and sink, creating niche and arched accompaniments, edging mirrors and countertops located in bathrooms, latrines and showers.

Porcelain Tile

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Porcelain tile has all the advantages of mosaic and ceramic tiles, but at the same time, it has much greater durability and wear resistance. Such tiles can withstand sudden changes in temperature, high loads, not subject to mechanical stresses of small and medium power, falling objects.

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Porcelain tiles in 90% of cases have a rough surface, which prevails to prevent slipping factors.

Porcelain tile is used for cladding floor surfaces, but it happens that it is used for wall and ceiling cladding.

Porcelain tiles in 90% of cases have a rough surface, which prevails to prevent slipping factors.

Production of porcelain tiles takes place using raw materials, which in their technical characteristics are similar to porcelain. Externally, porcelain tile resembles stone. Compared with ceramic tiles, it has a lower percentage of water absorption, which is why it is included in the category of tiles, a distinctive feature of which is its high resistance when placed in aggressive environments. Also, its main quality argument should be considered high resistance to the abrasion process.

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Porcelain tile is sometimes able to include a granular structure - this is a classic unglazed porcelain tile. When purchasing such a tile, you can forget about the formation of pores and various undesirable inclusions on it. Such porcelain tiles are not prone to cracking, they even surpass natural stone in some of its properties.

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Glazed porcelain stoneware is characterized by a distinctive feature - its prevalence. Thanks to glazing of porcelain tile, a diverse number of all kinds of shades and colors is obtained.

Advantages of tiles

Facing tiles - in demand, and popular in the market of finishing materials. It is in great demand among representatives of the consumer society, at the same time, tile is in demand among the heads of companies and enterprises that use it for laying in shower rooms intended for employees, kitchens and dining rooms.

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The history of manufacturing tiles stands out for many centuries. The first tile was located in the homes of the patricians and emperors of the ancient world.

Tiled bathroom

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