Wood effect porcelain tiles

Rosa_Damascena

Where can I find these?

I'd like to get a similar colour to my existing floors (am happy with the wooden floor match so far) for wet areas but have rejected Karndean / Amtico on account of the cost of the ranges that I like (£90-120/sq m all in) that aren't in fact a colour match. Tiles seem a better option but I have been warned against ceramic as they are very prone to chipping and cracking. The trouble is I can't find anything locally and samples sourced on the internet look lovely but nothing like the pictures online.


Has anyone succeeded in a similar task?

phoebe1989seb

We fitted some brilliant wood effect porcelain tiles in an ensuite bathroom eleven years ago. It was a Tudor house that had been rebuilt in the 1930s with lovely old oak flooring throughout which we wanted to match in the newly created ensuite.

Unfortunately it's so long ago I can't recall the brand/where it was from (but DH had many contacts in the high end bathroom industry back then, so guess it was a recommendation from one of those 🙄).

I do know it fooled virtually everyone that saw it!

NeverTooLate

We used the Mora oak tile from Topps in a kitchen in an old house, you can't tell it's not wood unless you get down on your hands and knees! It's been down about 5 years and no chips etc - best flooring we've used for dogs, muddy boots etc.

Colour of grout is very important to make it look like wood, we used a grey.

Rosa_Damascena

NeverTooLate said:

We used the Mora oak tile from Topps in a kitchen in an old house, you can't tell it's not wood unless you get down on your hands and knees! It's been down about 5 years and no chips etc - best flooring we've used for dogs, muddy boots etc.

Colour of grout is very important to make it look like wood, we used a grey.

I did see this at the weekend, but neither shade is a good colour match unfortunately.

Rosa_Damascena

See below: a couple are acceptable but none are a particularly good match:


 Eta: it turns out my preferred one is ceramic after all

Doozergirl

What are you going to be doing to chip tiles in the bathroom?  Cracking has a lot more to do with the subfloor than the tile.  

Why don't you go for something totally different?    What else is happening in those rooms?  Is everything in them new?   You're not breaking any interior design convention by having a tiled floor that isn't similar to what's outside the room.  It can feel like what's inside the room.    Contrast will feel less contrived than something that is supposed to really match, but doesn't.  

Or, conversely, is your lifestyle such that you really shouldn't go for engineered wood in there?  Is it just grown ups using a bath mat?  Or is it more a case of children flooding the floor?  

Doozergirl

For no reason other than The fact that I haven't been able to try it on people yet, my favourite wood effect tile is this one.  Found it in CP Hart but no doubt someone else will sell it for a lot less.    It wasn't this grey in real life.  

Rosa_Damascena

I just wanted the floors in the kitchen and cloakroom to "flow" with the rest of the ground floor, I also thought it would be nice with my bank of green kitchen units. The other option was to go with an anthracite floor tile in the kitchen but I like the parquet effect you have posted.

https://www.cut-price-tiles.co.uk/product.html?prod_id=5161

Doozergirl

Yeah.  Not that anthracite tile. 

Would you really not get away with the engineered flooring?  I'd argue that the kitchen/utility aren't exactly wet rooms in many homes.   

travis-powers

Doozergirl said:

Yeah.  Not that anthracite tile. 

Would you really not get away with the engineered flooring?  I'd argue that the kitchen/utility aren't exactly wet rooms in many homes.   

I fitted engineered flooring in kitchens many time never had a call back!