Choosing Tiles For Your Home

Choosing tiles for your home is one of the fun parts of a renovation or new build, isn’t it? There are so many shapes, sizes, patterns, colours and textures out there for you to find exactly what you’re after and what best reflects your personality.

But it’s also easy to become overwhelmed with all those choices and the abundance of technical expressions.

Ceramic tile versus porcelain tile

Well, let’s start with what they both have in common. They are both made up of clay, quartz sand and water and you won’t be able to spot the difference in appearance. But the clay in the porcelain tile, which is also called a vitrified or fully vitrified tile, is a lot more refined and purified. It is also fired at higher temperatures and with greater pressure that makes the tile denser.

Perfect tile for your interiors

Due to those differences in materials and manufacturing processes, porcelain tiles are:

• harder wearing and stain resistant,
• more versatile when it comes to intricate designs, textures, colours and sizes,
• suitable for both indoors and outdoors,
• more expensive than ceramic tiles.

Beautiful and hard wearing tiles for your spaces

Porcelain tiles are more versatile when it comes to intricate designs like this metallic tile used for the bathroom renovation in Castle Hill.