Brightening Tiles for Winter

With winter drawing in and the days darkening, there’s no better time to brighten up your bathroom with cheery tiles. Indeed, if you want to make your indoors a little cosier during the long winter months, there are lots of options when it comes to choosing tiles which will lighten your mood as well as your home.

The following blog will subsequently provide some inspiration for tiles which are perfect for adding vibrancy to your interiors and enhancing the mood of the space. Curious …? Read to the end to find out what we recommend.

As the days darken, using bright colours in your home can lift your mood and make spaces feel more welcoming.

Lighter tiling to uplift your space

If you want to make your bathroom less gloomy in the winter, then tiles with lighter colour palettes are a surefire way to lift the mood and make it appear cheerier and more welcoming. Research shows that colours do affect our mood, with darker tones more likely to make us feel sad or lonely, while brighter tones evoke feelings of cheerfulness and optimism.

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a type of depression linked to seasonal change and generally affects people in the darker winter months, when the days are shorter and the environment generally duller. However, you don’t need to suffer from SAD to benefit from a brighter home environment – lighter colours and illuminated spaces tend to make everyone feel an uplift in mood, so incorporating these into your home always makes sense.

Nature-inspired colours such as blues, greens, ambers and soft pastels are all great for helping us feel calm and at ease. Lighter tones also reflect more light so work on multiple levels, as well as helping to make rooms feel more spacious and generally brighter. So, opting for these tones for your tiles – whether for walls, floors or feature areas, will immediately make your bathroom feel more welcoming.

The Palm Stripe Green Porcelain Hexagon Tile can be laid in various ways so you can create different patterns.

For example, the Palm Stripe Green Porcelain Hexagon Tile is a large hexagonal wall and floor tile with a modern matt finish and a green base tone with stiped detailing. This combination creates a bright colour palette, with the tiles also suitable for styling in various ways – for instance, in a starburst design, with the stripes facing outwards. They can also be arranged to point in one direction and, together with the hexagonal shapes of the tiles, this creates visual interest.

Both scratch and stain-resistant, the Palm Stripe Tiles are also very robust, being made from hard-wearing porcelain and are ideal for high-traffic areas and humid environments.

If you prefer something even lighter, however, without rich colour, then the creamy tone of the Tadan Bone Rectified Tile is ideal. This large rectangular tile has a matt finish and subtle detailing which gives it the appearance of real stone. The neutral colour palette combined with these features subsequently makes this a tile which will help to create a calm, tranquil atmosphere, while also making the room feel more spacious.

Perfect for pairing with a wide range of décor, the Tadan Bone Tile is also rectified, so has clean straight edges which allow the tiles to be laid more closely together, creating a seamless aesthetic.

The Tadan Bone Rectified Tile has a creamy colour palette and modern matt finish.

Boost brightness with gloss-finish tiles

As well as opting for lighter coloured tiles, choosing designs with gloss finishes will also help to create a brighter interior, as this allows light to bounce more easily off the tile surfaces.

Bearing this in mind, the Metro Rosa Pink Biselado Brillo Ceramic Tile is ideal, as it combines a pale pink tone with a smooth light-reflecting gloss finish. The rectangular metro style of these tiles also means you can lay them in various formats – brick-effect, horizontal, vertical or in a chevron pattern – so you can add character as well as that lightening effect to your bathroom.

Metro Rosa Pink Biselado Brillo Ceramic Tile has a gloss finish.

The White Soul Rectified Porcelain Tile is another great option, as this large-format wall and floor tile has a smooth, gloss finish and a white background with wisps of light grey featured across the tiles in a marble effect. The rectified edges of these tiles allow for minimal grout lines and that seamless aesthetic, while the large square size creates a sense of space, along with the light-reflecting surface and neutral colour palette.

Giving you the luxury look of real marble but with all the benefits of hard-wearing porcelain, the White Soul Tiles are ideally suited for high-traffic areas and can be used throughout the home, as well as in your bathroom. They’ll also work well alongside a range of décor, thanks to the light colour palette and are very versatile.

The White Soul Rectified Porcelain Tiles have a smooth gloss finish which is great for reflecting light.

Tiles with metallic accents

As well as using glossy tiles in your interiors, designs which feature metallic elements and finishes will also add lustre and a subtle sheen to rooms, so this is another inspired way to boost illumination. They also bring a certain sophistication and will again, reflect light around the room.

For example, the Delta Gold Mosaic Sheet features arrow-shaped tiles with a subtle sheen, interspersed with gloss gold tiles which all work together to create a stunning metallic finish. The shimmer effect of the main tiles, combined with the shiny surfaces of the gloss tiles, create an eye-catching aesthetic which will enhance any space – and is ideal for feature walls.

The Delta Gold Mosaic Sheet features gloss tiles and has a striking metallic aesthetic.

The Hex Habana Copper Mosaic Sheet has a similar design, in that the predominant white hexagonal tiles – some of which have copper veining detail – are interspersed with shimmering full-copper tiles. These add a metallic effect which creates texture and added visual interest, creating an attractive sparkle in the light.

The Hex Habana Copper Mosaic Sheet includes shimmering copper accent tiles.

Close up of the metallic copper elements of the Hex Habana Copper Mosaic Sheet.

Pick patterned tiles for added energy

Opting for tiles with bright and cheerful patterns can add vibrancy to your bathroom and lift the mood during the winter months – and you can even mix and match different patterned styles, if you want to go really bold. Cheerful colours will also add a warming vibe to your space, which will help in making it into a more inviting place.

The Marrakech Hexagon Pattern Tile combines a mixture of colours, including burnt orange, red, blue, green, white, grey and purple, so will certainly brighten up your interior. Perfect for creating a striking feature wall or for use across the bathroom – on the walls or floors – this contemporary tile has a modern matt finish and will definitely help to elevate your mood.

The Marrakech Hexagon Pattern Tile will add vibrancy to your bathroom.

For a pattern tile which is a little more simplistic, though still striking, the Mijas Celeste Pattern Tile has a blue and white colour palette which will help to create a tranquil, calming vibe. The light blue base tone is overlaid with a white grid pattern with intersecting petal-shapes and the finish of the tiles, though matt, also has a subtle sheen and therefore reflects light.

The Mijas Celeste Pattern Tile has a calming blue and white colour palette.

Refresh your bathroom at Tileshack

Whether you’re giving your bathroom a complete makeover or simply want to add a bit of brightening colour to your interior, you’ll find a wide range of options to choose from at Tileshack. From plain and patterned tiles to gloss, matt and more, we have an array of colours, finishes, shapes and styles – including contemporary and more classic designs.

So, if the dreary days of winter are too much for you outside, it couldn’t be easier to transform your inside spaces, making them into more inviting and welcoming places which will banish those winter blues …

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