Tired of your old and dreary wood flooring? Here are our 9 ideas to bring your floor space back to life, revitalizing and refreshing your home interior.
1 – Blondes Have More Fun
We all have blonde moments, so try implementing the shade in your flooring with a beautiful warm-toned wood effect flooring. Light flooring with warm undertones can be great for refreshing your interior, transforming it to feel open and alive. It can be implemented into almost any scheme and perfectly complement any colours and style. Because of this, it can be seamlessly worked into your existing design, with no reason to completely redecorate your space. Try using a lighter wood effect tile with a darker grout, to create depth and texture. In this example, we’ve used Tejos Greige Porcelain Wood Effect Flooring Tiles with darker grout like Ultracolour Anthracite to achieve this beautiful appearance.
Above, Tejos Greige Porcelain Wood Effect Tiles
2 – Playing with Pattern
Laying your floor tiles in various patterns can let your personality shine through. It creates character and intrigue depending on how much creativity you wish to implement into it. We think using unique and different laying techniques for your floor tiles is a certain way of getting your guests talking and interested in your design choices. When we consider laying floor tiles in an unconventional way our minds automatically jump to parquet, but go wild and try something even crazier. In our example, we’ve used our Paintwash Cherry Wood Effect Wall and Floor Tile and have created a really unique and imaginative method of laying tiles. By creating squares with individual tiles, it has opened up the opportunity to then create a chequered effect, by laying the groups in different directions of the grain. This adds masses of depth and texture to the space, making the floor a focal point of this interior.
Above, Paintwash Cherry Wood Effect Wall and Floor Tile
3 – Tantalising Textures
It’s a massive trend within interior design at the moment to have a highly textured and ‘worn-in’ look across your flooring. It stems from the desperation of trying to reuse older materials to refresh and revitalize your space, which we highly advise doing, but it can get pricey sometimes. To get the same look and feel in your home, we recommend going for tiles that already look well-loved. This look can create a narrative for your home, adding individuality. Our reclaimed Dark Oak Nailed Wood Effect Floor Tiles have a believable replication of aged wooden planks that have been loved for years, with a realistic nail detail in each individual face.
Above, Reclaimed Dark Oak Nailed Wood Effect Floor Tile
4 – Going Cool With Grey
Grey flooring can be a simple and easy way of refreshing and brightening your floor space up. Grey is a typically modern colour and when paired with eqaully modern accessories can create a really elegant and sophisticated look. The shade also creates a beautiful base for other more vibrant or bold shades to be used alongside in the rest of your space, while still complimenting the flooring nicely. It can also be paired with more traditional colours and furniture to create a fresh and open country farmhouse appeal, like in our example. In this hallway space we’ve used our Tejos Grey Porcelain Wood Effect Floor Tile, paired alongside some darker brown shades and whites to create a really elegant and refined space.
Above, Tejos Grey Porcelain Wood Effect Floor Tile
5 – Be Bold With Blacks
Black/dark brown flooring can add so much depth to your interior, creating a unique luxurious atmosphere across your space. Black can feel scary and daunting to some people, but it doesn’t have to be such a big deal. When paired with lighter colours like whites or greys it can create a really modern and expensive look and feel, and the black becomes a part of the space rather than a big stand out feature. Our example of this is this kitchen space where we’ve used our Country Nut Wood Effect Wall and Floor Tiles. They’re an incredibly dark brown that resembles a black shade when put against the whites used around the space.
Above, Country Nut Wood Effect Wall and Floor Tiles
6 – Outstanding Outdoors
Wood effect flooring doesn’t have to be reserved for the interiors. It can be used just as effectively in your outdoor spaces also. Using wood effect flooring in your exterior can create a sense of comfort and warmth, as it gives the appearance of an interior while remaining outside. We love the use of wood effect flooring outside and think its something everyone should be doing more of. In this example is our Vertige Beige Wood Effect Large Outdoor Porcelain Slab Tile. This tile really brightens up the exterior space of this home, also adding a lot of texture to the area.
Above, Vertige Beige Wood Effect Large Outdoor Porcelain Slab Tile
7 – Parquet Laying
Get playful with parquet flooring. Parquet flooring is something that in our opinion, everyone should be doing more of. It’s a fun and stylish way of laying your floor tiles and can achieve a really high-end and luxurious look. Parquet is becoming more of a trend within interiors recently, with more designers using it across their space. To style our beautiful Chason Rock Grey Herringbone Luxury Click Vinyl Flooring, we’ve used asymmetrical lines and details throughout this hallway space to create a dimensional and fashionable look. The angles of the flooring work seamlessly with the details used throughout.
Above, Chason Rock Grey Herringbone Luxury Click Vinyl Flooring
8 – Think of The Wider Broad Appeal
When using wood effect flooring, don’t limit yourself to a small format tile, think bigger. Sometimes there are great benefits to using larger formatted tiles across your space. They create less room for errors when they are laid, and their finish appears grander. For our Vertige Grey Wood Effect Large Flooring Tile, we’ve used them them across a garden space, to show that the area can be really opened up and bought back to life.
Above, Vertige Grey Wood Effect Large Outdoor Porcelain Paving Slab
9 – Going Oak
Oak is a timeless shade when it comes to wood flooring, and has been used for years and years across peoples home interiors. The warm undertones in oak wood flooring help to create a wonderfully warm and inviting space, and can create a cosy, homely atmosphere. We have plenty of oak wood effect flooring available so there are choices and options when it comes to finding the perfect match. We’re showcasing our Sea Medium Oak Laminate, which we believe will replenish the life in your space, adding some well-earned style.
Above, Sea Medium Oak Laminate Flooring
– What’s Trending?
Wood effect flooring is timeless and can be used across any area of the home. But, here is what is on our radar at the moment…
It’s noticed that we’re moving away from narrow, pale woods, and more towards darker toned flooring, especially deeper reclaimed floors. Oak is a favourite at the moment due to its variations and colour options. Oak flooring blends seamlessly into most current designs across your home, working hand in hand with colour schemes and styles.
Wide planks and boards are also rising in popularity in recent months, especially those that have a distressed finish.
Parquet flooring is also more popular than ever and getting hotter within interior trends. Rich honey colours are great for parquet flooring, creating a traditional and timeless appearance.
The term greige is now used a lot more than it once was, meaning the combination of grey and beige. To create a warm but modern shade of flooring. It’s an in-between shade that’s keeping everyone happy, with warm comforting undertones of beige, but cool modernity of grey.
We hope you get some inspiration from our ideas on wood effect flooring. Consider us when you finish your projects, we want to see them. Tag us in your pictures on Instagram, @Tilemountainuk
