Trend watch: green tiles for your kitchen and bathroom
With shades from cool mint to warm olive, green is fast gaining appeal. Try these top decor tips to add tranquility to your kitchens and bathrooms.
Green has firmly planted its roots as a colour for the year. In fact, such is its growing popularity, it will likely be here to stay for the whole decade. This is not just because green looks harmonious indoors and out, it goes deeper than that. Research has shown that in the past few years we have been desiring more calming, nurturing spaces and looking to our homes to provide this. Whether we're conscious of it or not, we are yearning to reconnect with nature. Enter trends that bring nature back into the home in the form of natural woven textures, wooden flooring, stone and other natural materials.
Decor trends inspired by nature
Similarly, wall colour choices draw inspiration from nature: Dulux’s paint colour of the year for 2021 is a rich, earthy hue called Brave Ground. More to the point, Benjamin Moore chose a soothing blue-green shade called Aegean Teal as its 2021 Colour of the Year and Farrow and Ball selected three earthy greens to include in its 2021 trend forecast (Sap Green, Treron and Green Smoke).
In colour therapy, green is called a balancing colour, resting as it does in the middle of the visible spectrum. Consequently it is said to bring harmony and balance. Translate that into your kitchen or bathroom and you have a wonderful oasis in the home. If ever there was a time we needed healing, tranquility and harmony in our lives, it’s this year. And you can do so by incorporating tiles in plain or patterned green, muted or bold hues. Consider these ideas to bring green into your spaces.
Green lends itself to vintage style and the muted shades combine particularly well with classic neutrals.
Combining naturals and neutrals with a splash of sage green
Accents of sage in these porcelain patterned floor tiles give a nod to green and add authenticity to their vintage style. The beauty of subtle green shades such as sage and mint is that they combine very well with our favourite neutrals: grey, beige, ivory and cream. Add them as an accent colour to a neutral scheme to enjoy the benefits of green without stepping out too far. With porcelain tiles you can confidently install underfloor heating and enjoy the aesthetic of a bygone era with the comforts of heated floors.
The soft tones and classic biselado shape of these sage green subway tiles pair well with both contemporary and vintage styles.
Sage advice for kitchen and bathroom wall tiles
In spite of being popular for decades, subway tiles are not going anywhere soon. There are seemingly endless ways in which to keep these Underground tiles top of mind and looking fresh, such as novel colours, designs, glazing and creative tiling patterns. Sage is one of the stars of the green spectrum as it complements many design elements that are currently popular, such as brushed warm metallics, black worktops and taps, and raw wood in light to mid tones. It also has a vintage element to it: leafy greens were among the popular colours in Edwardian decor schemes, so sage is an authentic choice if you're hankering after a traditional bathroom.
Jewel colours such as these bottle green subway tiles have made a comeback.
Bold bottle green adds mid-century style or bohemian vibes
Bottle green is not just for bottles. It's also the colour of delicious monster leaves, an indoor plant that has made a strong comeback in recent years. Recently there's been a resurgence of the rich jewel colours so popular in mid-century-modern decor and this intense green pairs boldly with red, orange and turquoise hues from the era, if you dare. Delicious-monster green pops with white for a fresh look or when paired with warm metallic accessories such as brushed brass, copper or rose gold.
With 1500 colours to choose from in our Dolocast range, there are a number of pretty green options.
Green bath + green basin = perfect harmony
Soak in those healing vibes in a green bath and complete the look with a matching freestanding basin. Our Dolocast baths and basins are available in 1500 different colours, including a number of shades of green. Just add bubbles to this mint combo of and you'll soon be feeling refreshed.
Bring nature into your home with natural materials such as raw wood and stone, then add plants or a green wall.
Biophyllia brings the outdoors in
Our desire to reconnect with nature has prompted the biophyllia trend, which is all about connecting living spaces with nature. Green walls, verdant indoor gardens, big picture windows that gaze on natural scenery and indoor hanging plants all answer this need. Biophyllia in architecture and interior design is about using natural building materials, sustainably sourced wood and natural stone. Engineered wood flooring, wood effect tiles and stone-look tiles are all more practical and budget-friendly ways to create the same atmosphere, then just add plants... lots of them.
