Transforming your outdoor area with porcelain paving can elevate its aesthetic appeal and functionality. PrimaPorcelain offers a diverse range of options to suit various design preferences. Here's a guide to help you select the ideal porcelain paving slabs for a sleek, modern outdoor space.
1. Consider Your Design Style
Begin by identifying the overall style you wish to achieve:
- Contemporary Look: Opt for large-format tiles with clean lines and minimal textures to create a modern, streamlined appearance.
- Natural Aesthetic: Choose porcelain paving slabs that mimic natural stone or wood, providing a timeless and organic feel.
2. Select the Appropriate Colour
Colour plays a crucial role in setting the mood of your outdoor space:
- Neutral Tones: Shades like grey, white, and beige offer versatility and can make the area appear more spacious.
- Darker Hues: Colours such as charcoal or black add sophistication and contrast, ideal for highlighting specific areas.
- Warm Colours: Earthy tones like browns and creams can create a welcoming and cosy atmosphere.
4. Assess Slip Resistance
Safety is paramount, especially in outdoor settings:
- Grip Factor: PrimaPorcelain rates slip resistance from R1 (low) to R5 (high). For outdoor areas, a rating of R4 or higher is recommended to ensure adequate slip resistance.
5. Plan for Indoor-Outdoor Transition
Creating a seamless flow between indoor and outdoor spaces enhances the overall design:
- Matching Tiles: PrimaPorcelain offers tiles in varying thicknesses for indoor and outdoor use, facilitating a cohesive transition.
- Consistent Aesthetics: Using the same tile design indoors and outdoors blurs boundaries and unifies the living spaces.
7. Maintenance and Durability
One of the advantages of porcelain paving slabs is their low maintenance:
- Stain Resistance: With less than 0.05% water absorption, PrimaPorcelain tiles resist stains effectively.
- Fade Resistance: The tiles maintain their colour over time, even when exposed to varying weather conditions.
- Frost Proof: Designed to withstand freezing temperatures, ensuring durability in colder climates.
8. Budgeting
PrimaPorcelain offers a range of products to fit different budgets:
- Porcelain Paving Prices: Tiles range from approximately £30 to £60 per square meter, reflecting quality and design intricacy.
- Value for Money: Investing in higher-quality tiles can result in longer-lasting and more aesthetically pleasing outcomes.
Conclusion
Selecting the perfect porcelain paving slabs involves careful consideration of style, colour, size, safety, and maintenance. PrimaPorcelain's extensive range caters to diverse preferences, ensuring you can create a modern and elegant outdoor space that complements your lifestyle.
For more information and to explore available options, visit PrimaPorcelain's website.
We have dozens of different paving colours on offer here at PrimaPorcelain, and we love it when our customers combine two of those colours to create a spectacular two-tone patio.
There are many different ways to utilise contrasting colours when designing your patio, and each method produces strikingly unique results. Read on for some eye-catching examples of this 'mix and match' approach to paving your garden!
1. Checkerboard Patio Paving
One of the most popular two-tone patio designs is the 'checkerboard' style, where dark and light tiles are alternated to imitate the appearance of a chess board. This customer achieved that very look using our Henley Black and Hampton Silver paving slabs.
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Grey is a very fashionable colour right now, and not just because of 50 Shades (though the popularity of those books may well have helped!) Grey items have a simple, neutral beauty that allows them to fit practically any design scheme, and whether you're shopping for furniture, clothing, or something else entirely, grey has a stylish appeal that works well right across the board.
We're big fans of grey here at PrimaPorcelain, so it shouldn't surprise you to learn that we have a variety of
grey porcelain tiles for our customers to choose from. Here are a selection of our favourites - to browse our full range, head over to the
PrimaPorcelain Product Selector.
Here's a room that's really embraced the appeal of grey! Our smooth Stoneware Pebble tiles look fantastic alongside the other elements of this magnificently modern interior.
These grey wood-effect porcelain tiles are perfect for an elegant, monochromatic interior design like the one in this photograph.
Grey porcelain tiles can also have an attractive stone-effect texture, as our Burlington Lead design demonstrates. Perfect for bringing a bit of nature into the home!
Click here to order a free sample of any of the grey porcelain tiles featured here. Remember, there's plenty more to see on our Products page!
From decking to stone paving to artificial turf, there are many different ways to floor a balcony. Still, we feel that porcelain paving is the best choice of all – our porcelain slabs are sturdy, water-resistant, and very beautiful indeed!
One customer in Berkshire certainly agreed with this point of view. They ordered 39m2 of our beautiful Limestone Champagne paving for their balcony, and the results are really rather stunning!
Here’s a ‘Before and After’ photo:
What a transformation! Not so long ago, the balcony was a grimy, grubby-looking thing, with weeds poking between the paving stones and a rather tired appearance in general. But now that our porcelain products have worked their magic, the balcony is all but unrecognisable. The champagne-coloured tiles look fabulous as usual, bringing a hint of classical decadence to the customer's outdoor space, and that beautiful white balustrade looks perfect alongside them!
And it’s the perfect time for it, too – we’re right at the height of summer now, and we’re positive that the view from this client’s balcony is absolutely astounding in the Berkshire sunshine!
Would you like us to transform your tired-looking balcony? Call 029 2080 3750 today, or visit our dedicated Balcony Flooring page for further details. Remember to order your free paving sample!
We are very proud to introduce you to our latest range of Italian Porcelain Paving Tiles - the Milan range. Milan is a range of 3 beautiful porcelain tiles all in various chic grey tones. Grey is becoming more and more popular in interior and exterior design, meaning by opting for one of our stylish Milan not only will you be on trend, but you'll have a timeless classic and durable choice of paving for your outdoor space. The three tiles featured in the Milan range are:
1. Milan Grey Paving
First up is our gorgeous Milan grey. A light silver-esque grey, this colour has found itself into many a design scheme as of late. It's light and fresh, which will work perfectly alongside any colour scheme you wish to implement your grey porcelain tiles into. As with all our porcelain tiles, there is practically no maintenance required and they are extremely non-porous.
2. Milan Graphite Paving
Our Milan Graphite Paving is a slightly darker gray with subtle charcoal-tones. It's lightly speckled featuring a gorgeous spectrum of grey pigments throughout. This sophisticated deep grey will add warmth to your outdoor or indoor space.
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