Ceramic Border Tiles

In the United Kingdom, on average, each household will redecorate each room in the house every six or seven years. This is so that the rooms in the house keep looking modern.  If you've been thinking of improving the look of your bathroom or kitchen in the next few weeks, or giving it a complete makeover, and important aspect of the rooms which the majority of people overlook is the tiling. Tiling is an important part of both the bathroom and the kitchen, as it helps to prevent the walls from getting wet, sodden and damaged. 

Most modern bathroom and kitchens have wall tiles built into the design of the walls, but if you’re starting from scratch, you need to make sure you know what you’re doing. As well as the physical benefits of using tiles in the bathroom for the walls, wall tiles are also aesthetically pleasing, as they can help to break up the large space that is the wall.

However, if the tiles in your bathroom extend all the way from floor to ceiling, it could be the tiles themselves that are not doing favours for how your bathroom looks. If you have a large block of similar colour, it can detract from the design of the room, as there is little interest in that area of the room. One tiling solution that many tiling specialists are offering now is the fitting of ceramic border tiles. Ceramic border tiles allow you to have two completely different tiling designs on your wall, without having them directly next to each other and risking them clashing with one another. Having two tile designs on your wall means that the large open space is halved, and the room design is likely to be improved.

Ceramic Border Tiles can be used for both contemporary or traditional rooms, as they only serve to provide a barrier between two different types of tiles. Ceramic Border Tiles can also be used where the end of your tile section abruptly meets the normal painted wall; in order to make the tiling work look more professional and more well designed, you can put them at the top of your tile section to border the tiles and provide a better aesthetic quality to your tiling job.

Types of border tiles can vary. Some are known as ‘pencils’ which are thin strips of ceramic tile to add a small border to a simple design. The designs of the borders then progressively get stronger, such as the rope effect ‘bridge’, which is a thicker version of the pencil, only with a rope-design on it. You can even get half-width tiles of a different design to class as a border tile – so long as it looks good with the rest of your tile set, which I am sure it will.