Among the very best features of decor is that even when you feel you understand whatever about a particular product or method of doing things, something occurs to alter your point of view. The simple tile is an ideal example. Formerly booked for more useful usages in bathroom and kitchens, it has now end up being a method to include visual interest, depth, texture and colour to any plan in any space of your home.
Balineum’s ‘Mottled’ tiles can be seen here in the corner of this cooking area in a Wimbledon flat developed by Emma Burns. They develop a useful yet stunning splashback behind the worktop, and tone completely with the cabinets and walls painted in ‘Studio Green’ by Farrow & & Ball.
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Sarah Watson, the visionary behind tile business Balineum (and the winner of Home & & Garden‘s 2025 award for Exceptional Contribution) has actually seen the exact same pattern. ‘We are certainly seeing customers utilizing more colour and decor with their tiles,’ she states. ‘They are much bolder with pattern and colour than they were 5 or ten years back.’ She highlights the success of Balineum’s ‘Mottled’ tile collection, ‘which is based upon an old Victorian or Edwardian tiles that you ‘d frequently see in bars in north of England. It has actually been among our successful items over the previous number of years. We have customers who are tiling whole spaces in theses mottled tiles.’
We are presently really taken with concept of organizing tiles in an intriguing method (eg turning square tiles on their points or forming interested striped styles) in addition to utilizing dark, shiny tiles to develop a remarkable appearance. Tiled furnishings is likewise removing, with cabinets, tables, plinths and more being brought to life with stunning colours and vibrant styles. Keep reading to learn what’s captured our eye now and how to replicate these terrific style concepts.
Tile concepts from the Home & & Garden archive
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Dean Hearne1/18 Tiled splashbacks are a popular function in numerous cooking areas thanks to their intrinsic functionality, however this does not suggest they require to be uninteresting or traditional. We are significantly seeing attractive patterns and uncommon setups taking centre phase.
In Phoebe Holland’s eccentric London home, she has actually utilized Balineum’s ‘Felce’ style to cover the lower part of the walls, extending approximately the cooker hood to form a striking main panel. The leafy tile style is especially pleasing with the white and green of the cabinet doors.
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Dean Hearne2/18 Joshua Hale’s small home in the Cotswolds is now a gem box of colour and pattern thanks to the designer and artist’s creative, affordable concepts. One piece he did choose to buy is the wise steel chimneypiece from English Fireplaces in the sitting space.
However even this has actually been provided the individual touch with a border of spongeware tiles that he produced with his good friend and proprietor Matthew Rice, which were then made in Emma Bridgewater’s Stoke-on-Trent factory. A fantastic example of utilizing tiles to imbue an area with character and accomplish a distinct surface not seen anywhere else.
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Lindsay Brown3/18 Tiled fire surrounds have actually been around the centuries, using much-needed functionality in addition to being visually pleasing. However they can likewise work effectively as an addition to more contemporary interiors. In this 100-year-old home in Atlanta, designer Avery Cox chose to include brand-new dark green tiles to the chimneypiece in the sitting location, bringing colour and texture to this natural centerpiece.
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Ngoc Minh Ngo4/18 When half-tiling a wall, think about utilizing wallpaper instead of paint on the upper walls for a a lot more dynamic plan. In the kids’s restroom of this Connecticut home developed by Hugh Leslie, yellow train tiles have actually been partnered with ‘Herbarium’ wallpaper by Stig Lindberg from Borástapeter for a bright and uplifting impact.
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Dean Hearne5/18 This drawing space has actually been changed into a splendidly welcoming area by Nicola Harding, in an Arts and Crafts home included in the September 2025 concern of Home & & Garden. To the left of the fireplace is a gas blue-tiled ‘Invite’ cabinet made by Matthew Raw for The New Craftmaker, which belongs to a collection influenced by the standard tiles of Britain’s train stations.
Tiled furniture pieces can be a fantastic wish to present various products and textures into a plan. Think about presenting them in combination with a mix of various materials, as Nicola has actually done here on the chairs and couches, for a lot more textural contrast.
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Annie Schlechter6/18 Brilliant tiles never ever stop working to bring a cheerful feel, specifically when utilized on a big scale and on the other hand colours and patterns. The cooking area of this Mexico City home by Jessica Ayromloo is gloriously saturated with colour and shows 3 methods to utilize tiles: on the wall, on the flooring and– our preferred– on the round table. You may not be feeling rather this bold, however maybe it will motivate you to opt for a couple of tiled components in your next job.
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Dean Hearne7/18 The headboard in Carolina Irving’s Portuguese home is covered in vibrant tiles handmade in a little town in Andalusia– a somewhat various take on the mottled pattern– which were likewise utilized to develop a splashback in the cooking area. It simply goes to reveal simply how well tiles can operate in a more uncommon setting like a bed room.
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Dean Hearne8/18 In the sitting space of Carolina Irving’s home in Portugal we see more stunning tiles, this time on the flooring. The deep emerald tiles were made in your area in the town of Setúbal, with an ancient tin-glaze method that the designer keeps in mind wryly is ‘not rather safe for consuming off, however completely great to have underfoot’.
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Paul Massey9/18 Dark shiny tiles are having something of a minute, as exhibited by these lining the AGA of Philip Hooper’s Georgian home in Somerset. Walls in Documents and Paints’ ‘Pale Gres de Flandres Brown’ are the background for the entire cooking area, however using the dark tiles premises both the area and produces an unique zone.
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Paul Massey10/18 Dark Lapicida tiles contrast with walls in Edward Bulmer’s ‘Trumpington’ in this grand contemporary corridor of a 19th-century county home changed by Rita Konig. This entryway produces a minute of severe architectural drama, with its double-height plate-glass windows, modern staircase and flooring in black sandstone tiles, revealing another method which dark shiny tiles work specifically well.
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Paul Massey11/18 Another example of dark, shiny tiles working especially well can be discovered in this library area of a Thameside home by Nicola Harding. Woodwork in Pure & & Original’s ‘Aubergine’ and black bejmat tiles from Emery & & Cie offer a remarkable background for a good-looking 19th-century table and a classic painted stool.
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Paul Massey12/18 Nicola utilized flooring tiles throughout this home, including a shiny, significant touch in numerous areas. Here, in the hall in between the library (above) and orangery beyond, bejmat tiles are laid in a various development. We see the teal bejmat tiles in the adjacent orangery, where the a little lighter colour there provides an air of unwinded glamour.
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Lucas Allen13/18 Delft tiles are absolutely nothing brand-new however, when utilized in a contemporary setting, they can take an extremely various appearance. Here in a restroom in Joanne Citizen’ home in Henley-on-Thames, they have actually been utilized to line the fireplace, supplying an intriguing contrast with the yellow and white striped flooring and the patterned armchair. They likewise bring a painterly quality that instantly raises an area.
If you’re trying to find Delft tiles, the focus is no longer solely on antique example. This is now an entire host of sources for purchasing– and commissioning– brand-new handles them. Petra Palumbo does amusing contemporary handles them, such as her ‘Laundry Delft’ series. Etiquette Studio is likewise an excellent source, especially for sea-themed styles.
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Owen Gale14/18 Painterly tiles of all sorts are having a genuine minute and there has actually been a genuine boost in interest considering that we initially spotted these styles in this stylist’s London home a couple of years back. These are all hand-designed and transfer-printed by Maude Made, who makes the tiles to buy.
Balineum has likewise got a terrific offering of artistic tiles, with its extensive and constantly preferable lines. The cooperation with illustrator Cost Greening is definitely not to be missed out on.
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Paul Massey15/18 Bespoke Delft tiles develop a subtle yet unique splashback behind the AGA in this London home by Cavern Interiors. The most significant aspect of them– and a function we are seeing a growing number of– is their positioning. The tiles are not in a vertical grid, rather they have actually been turned 45 degrees to develop a charming diamond pattern on the diagonal.
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Christopher Horwood16/18 European Heritage ‘Metronome’ tiles in green and white develop a distinctive striped impact in the restroom of this flat by Natalie Tredgett. It has a practically retro feel, specifically integrated with the brass hardware, that is completely in keeping with the remainder of the flat.
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Lucas Allen17/18 In another corner of the restroom in Joanne Citizen’ home, we see a various method to develop a striped pattern. This time, it originates from the very style of the ‘Mustard Stripe’ tile by Otto Tiles, so there is no requirement for the tiles to be organized in an unique stripe development. It is echoed by the painted floorboards in stripes of white and Farrow and Ball’s ‘India Yellow’.
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Kate S Jordan. Styling: Brittany Albert18/18 Zia Tiles cement styles in earthy tones are organized in a chequerboard pattern that matches the tongue-and-groove panelling in the restroom of this farmhouse in Upstate New york city.
Obviously, there is absolutely nothing brand-new about chequerboard tiles in a restroom, however it definitely appears to be having something of a return. With myriad various providers to pick from, it is a reasonably simple method to improve your brand-new restroom plan– simply make certain you get a great tiler on board as it is not constantly simple to accomplish yourself.
