We learn about fashion trends in the field of interior design from glossy magazines and television projects. Someone invents interesting forms, and someone gives a second life to old things. In any case, both there and there you need a creative approach, attention to detail, good taste. Often, all of the above is joined by technical progress, adding new colors, making the design more vivid and memorable. Domestic and foreign manufacturers of tiles and porcelain stoneware, who have long adopted these principles, annually improve their products using modern technologies, equipment and creativity. One of the directions of this process is the release of tile collections in imitation of natural stone.
In recent years, ceramic copies have been used in interior decoration where the level of moisture and fumes exceeds the permissible standards. Unlike their natural prototypes, they firmly endure all aggressive influences from the outside, are easy to install and easy to clean. If a decade ago, “stone-like” coatings were not very similar to the original and were represented by a rather limited assortment, today in the catalogs of Spanish, Italian and Russian factories you can see dozens of collections of tiles and porcelain stoneware, almost perfectly repeating the texture of granite, marble, travertine. paving stones, slate, etc. As a great alternative to the natural counterpart, cladding from this category is commonly used in interior design. Depending on its size, purpose and style, one or another copy is selected. For large rooms, RIALTO porcelain stoneware (Kerama Marazzi) with a classic stone pattern is suitable. It will organically fit into the environment and greatly simplify the installation process.
In a bathroom or kitchen, limited by square meters, large-format products are contraindicated. In this case, it will be appropriate to use a small or medium-sized tile so that it does not visually “eat” the centimeters. We can talk for a long time about the decorativeness of ceramic copies reproduced using digital technology. They automatically become accent, regardless of whether it is a bathroom or a kitchen. Some samples so accurately convey all the nuances of natural material that at first glance it is difficult to recognize the substitution. By transferring the image from the surface of the stone to the surface of the tile, the color rendition, all the subtleties of the pattern, the features of the texture are preserved.
At the moment, you can pick up any cladding option from this category. The coatings produced in Russia and supplied from abroad are represented by the richest assortment of products intended for wall and floor decoration. As a rule, such lines include decorative elements in the form of borders, baseboards, inserts. Among them, panels and mosaics are quite common, enhancing the beauty of the design. Thanks to a wide range of stone-like tiles, everyone is given the opportunity to choose the best option for the bathroom floor or kitchen backsplash. If in the first case porcelain stoneware is suitable in imitation of marble, travertine or quartzite, then in the second it is better to give preference to small-format tiles with "patchwork" decors or the so-called "boar" with a pattern of tuff, sandstone, etc. Interpretations of semiprecious specimens are expensive in every sense. which are reproduced no less accurately and filigree than all the others.
