Beautify Your Walls with Wall Tiles

Are you planning to decorate your new home? Or, renovate your existing home? It is important that you design your walls carefully since they comprise majority of your room area and also are responsible for enhancing the interior decor, be it your home or commercial space. Nowadays, wall tiles are quite commonly used for bathrooms, kitchens as well as in some room parts where, maybe you want a particular pattern- floral or any picture! Let’s discuss more about these small boxes which can add to the charm of your living, dining or commercial space without a crunch in your pockets. Wall tiles have replaced the demand for marbles owing to their low prices and creative space.



How are Wall Tiles made – Tiles are made by adding silica, quartz and feldspar to clay and churned with kiln. To carve out the various shapes and sizes, this concoction is heated and molded to solidify. The solid item is then carved out with cutting machines for tiles into various sizes and shapes.

Types of Wall Tiles

The most commonly used wall tiles are described as below:

  • Ceramic Tiles – You must have heard about these a number of times! Prepared from clay and silica, these tiles come in various sizes, with designs and patterns imprinted on them. Suitable for use almost everywhere, from living room to bathroom and kitchen walls, these are again of 2 types – glazed and unglazed.

    •     Glazed – On the layer of clay and silica formed tiles, the wall tile manufacturer adds a coating of glass or other substance which adds shine and lustre. Be it monochromic or a mix and match of several colours, these glazed substances add to the sleek look. Especially in bathrooms with white décor, these are the tiles which add to the magical charm. Also, in kitchens, they add to the glory owing to their stain resistance.
    •   Unglazed- Generally these come in matt single colours and are suitable to be used indoors, they don’t provide stain resistance. So it is advisable not to use them for your kitchen area. 
  • Digital Wall tiles – While the world goes digital, why not try digitalization for your walls! The mixture of clay and silica when hardened, the surface of the tile boxes is available for some creative work! You may ask your Wall tiles manufacturer to create some HD or 3D paintings on each of the wall tiles or you may design your wall with a beautiful scenic landscape or under-water life by assembling several wall tiles together. The perfect shine and lustrous finish along with the HD imprints can work wonders for your quiet walls! 
  •  Glass wall Tiles – Glass tiles are generally used in luxurious hotels and are comparatively expensive. The glass coating is fused with colour and is then cut into small pieces. These colouring effect will never fade away. The wall tile manufacturer may choose to fuse the colour on one side of the glass tile or on the entire tile, based on the design and pattern.
So, contact your Wall Tile Manufacturer to get the pattern and style you want to decorate your walls with. Don’t forget to check the physical properties of porosity, stain and water resistance before you finalize the type of tiles for your living or commercial space.

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