Mistake #2 – You Need to Use the Same Floor Tile in Any Adjoining Rooms
So you’ve got tiles you’re happy with in your hallway. You’ve got a majestic black and white chequerboard floor tiles that looks the bees knees, but your kitchen flows from your hallway, and now you’re thinking you need to cook in the company of a chequerboard floor too. Right?
Wrong. Well, not wrong, if you do choose to continue the same tile as what’s in the adjoining room then it’ll look smart as design continuity always does, but the important thing to note is you don’t have to.
Back to that hallway chequerboard example, rather than letting it limit your design options in your kitchen. Instead, be informed by any neighbouring floor tiles in the same way you would with wall colour and choose a tile that’s sympathetic to it and you’ll still create a sense of flow and order.
Mistake #3 – Not Linking Tile Palette to Cabinet Colour
Sticking to conversations in colour, because tiles are often thought of as a material first and foremost, they aren’t always woven into your kitchen’s colour palette in the way they should be. Similar to worktops, people often simply see them as a stone surface that’ll bed into your kitchen whatever happens.
But tiles are one of your kitchen’s greatest areas of colour, texture and even pattern (if you so choose), so to get them looking their best, they should really talk the same language as your cabinet and wall colour.
As a working example, see this charcoal grey kitchen by
@emmarosestyle. With crisp white walls as a blank canvas, she’s added warmth underfoot with our
Marlborough parquet terracotta floor tiles whose tones are repeated in the copper worktop. Deep grey on her cabinets adds depth and then she’s woven in a third hue via her
Lyme ceramic green metro tiles in Olive that feel right at home because of her many accents of potted greenery. An example of kitchen floor tiles, wall tiles and paint colour working in perfect harmony.
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