From the floor to coverings, the cement tiles I am one of more beautiful ideas for decorating the kitchen. From historical tiles to floor tiles of new production obtained with innovative materials, the fashion of cement tiles is back in the limelight thanks to the charm of their characteristic decorations with an elegant soul. Dedicated to those who love to give a vintage look to the home but also perfect to dampen the coldness of a modern environment, we see the most beautiful proposals to dress the kitchen with that touch of historicity that only the decorations of the cement tiles can give.
Photo: Cement effect tiles by Bisazza
Resistant to fashions and the passage of time, cement tiles are the right flooring if you want to give a vintage allure to your home.
The refined patterns and graphics in elegant tones allow to give the rooms, including the kitchen, a strong personality and a unique welcome.
On the market there are cement tiles made in the early twentieth century and recovered from noble homes, tiles worked today but with the artisan technique of the past and tiles produced with today’s industrial materials and techniques that reproduce the polychrome designs of vintage cement tiles. .
Photo: Cement-effect tiles by La Guglia and Kis Ceramiche
There are tiles with floral borders or geometric optical decorations, but also plain colored cement tiles characterized by nuances that reproduce the materiality of those decorated with marble powders.
Certainly the cement tiles conquer for their play of colors and decorations with which you can create very particular combinations for floors and walls.
Photo: Cri-lla cement tiles
The kitchens dressed with their geometric or floral motifs, polychrome or monochromatic, will be able to evoke the atmosphere of a noble past, emphasizing the classic furnishings, warming and cheering the contemporary ones.
Available in hexagonal, square and in some cases even rectangular shape, the cement tiles for the kitchen must however also be chosen based on practical needs: for coatings only traditional cement tiles are also perfect while for flooring, especially in the work area it is it is advisable to opt for the modern ones in porcelain stoneware, which are more resistant to water, grease, impacts and detergents.
The trend for kitchen furnishings sees cutlery combined with other coatings, generally in plain colors, and used only to dress certain portions of the surfaces to be coated, so as to create elegant and refined scenographic effects.
An absolutely decorative use, therefore, to embellish the walls, perhaps defining the space of the fire area or to frame the breakfast counter. Decorative solutions also for kitchen flooring with the use of cement tiles to create real carpets to create creative patterns in combination with parquet, not just ceramic tiles.
Furnish the kitchen with colored cement tiles
Photo: Valsecchia tiles
Proposed in square or hexagonal formats, the colored cement tiles are fascinating thanks to their decorations with great scenographic ability.
The porcelain stoneware effect tile collections are to be preferred over traditional cement tiles as they offer a more practical solution for the kitchen environment while maintaining their romantic charm.
Cement tiles for the modern kitchen: floors, furnishings and coverings
Photo: Tiles by Ceramica Sant’Agostino
Cementine tiles are perfect for decorating even a modern kitchen because they know how to interpret the elegance of the nobility of the past in a contemporary way.
From the floor to the coverings, the decorations of the cement tiles also proposed in the industrial stoneware tiles are a real piece of furniture. Their geometric graphics manage to give character to the linear monochromatic furniture. Green light for cement tiles for a white but also red kitchen, as well as for one with a wood finish. The use of this type of tile has almost no limits.
The floors for the kitchen with cement tiles
Photo: Keope tiles
Whether you choose the traditional decorated concrete tiles recovered from a period house, produced today according to the techniques of the ‘900 or made using today’s innovative materials and techniques, the cement tiles are able to dress the floors of the most social environment of the house very well.
The graphics in which the textures and geometric patterns intersect can be used for the entire flooring or to create circumscribed islands, juxtaposed with other coverings.
