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A suitable floor covering simplifies daily life and cleaning procedures so you can enjoy your home by the sea to the full. In fact, the dream of a seaside home combines practical and aesthetic demands: durable surfaces that don’t need constant care while still highlighting the beauty of the surroundings.
These requirements are met by modern, easy-clean floor tiles, which tick the all-important boxes for ensuring a comfortable, immaculate home even in demanding coastal locations.
Which materials should you choose for the floors of your seaside home?
When choosing the materials for the floors of your seaside home, porcelain stoneware is the perfect option for combining style and convenience: this material provides unbeatable benefits, with resistance to damp, thermal shock and seawater.
What’s more, its non-porous surface makes routine cleaning easier, so it’s ideal for anyone wanting to minimise the time spent caring for surfaces.
Marazzi porcelain stoneware for a seaside home: versatility, style and technical benefits
Marazzi porcelain stoneware is an excellent choice for houses by the sea, thanks to its many technical and aesthetic benefits. This material provides tough, anti-slip surfaces, ideal both indoors and outdoors, including pool edges and terraces. Resistant to damp and wear, it’s perfect for dealing effortlessly with typical seaside conditions.
What’s more, in a home by the sea porcelain stoneware is easy to clean and durable over time, retaining its beauty intact. In terms of appearance, Marazzi offers a vast range of collections that provide a wide assortment of decorative options and enable indoor-outdoor continuity, for a seamless, matching look.
Colours and textures: choosing the right floor tiles for every location
The choice of the floor’s colours and textures significantly influences the mood of a seaside home.
Pale, natural shades like beige and white amplify the light and create radiant interiors. On the other hand, neutral colours with stone or sand effects evoke the natural surroundings and blend perfectly into the marine landscape.
Combining different textures in living areas, bathrooms and terraces adds dynamism to spaces: for example, use of a floating paving on terraces provides extremely attractive yet very practical solutions. Another option is colour-matching of the indoor and outdoor areas in a total look that beautifies the entire home.
Wood-effect porcelain stoneware: warmth and authenticity
Wood, with its message of warmth and authenticity, is an ever-popular classic in spite of its care and maintenance problems. However, wood-effect porcelain stoneware for a seaside home delivers all the aesthetic benefits of traditional parquet but overcomes its limitations thanks to impressive resistance to damp and external factors.
Marazzi offers a vast assortment of wood-effect stoneware in different colours, sizes and finishes, ideal for the creation of welcoming, natural interiors: aesthetic solutions like wide planks, herringbone installation or stripped wood effects add character to interiors, combining tradition and innovation with unique, individual solutions.
From the aesthetic appeal of Vivo to the varying colours of Vero, every collection is designed to allow complete personalisation of your seaside home’s wood-effect floor covering.
5 ideas for the floors of your home by the sea
Choosing the right floor covering can radically transform the look and convenience of your seaside home. Here are five design tips for making the most of every room, with trendy solutions it’s easy to put into practice thanks to the impressive versatility of porcelain stoneware.
Bleached wood effect for a relaxing mood
Inspired by beach huts and wood honed by the sun and salt, the bleached wood effect creates a relaxing, welcoming mood for the tiles of your seaside home’s bathroom, and not just there.
Pale colours like white, beige and light grey make an interior appear more luminous overall: in these cases the recommended installation patterns are wide planks or herringbone, which add a touch of timeless elegance. This stylistic versatility is enabled by Marazzi wood-effect stoneware, ideal for creating this seaside mood (with its overtones of countless movie sets) without the limitations of traditional parquet.
Natural stone look for an authentic, tactile touch
Inspired by Mediterranean cliffs, coves and landscapes, the natural stone look provides a tactile sensation of authenticity.
The colour range is one of warm greys, sand and taupe, ideal for creating matching indoor-outdoor spaces; stone-effect stoneware with anti-slip finishes is recommended for this purpose, especially for verandas and pool edges, where it provides safety with style.
One of the natural stone-inspired collections best suited to these locations is Mystone Berici, which includes mosaics and geometrical or floral decors for contemporary design schemes.
Sandy and nude colours for radiant, airy interiors
Soft shades like sand and nude amplify the daylight to make rooms seem larger and airier: these colours are ideal for small seaside homes or those with panoramic views, since they help to create and foster an impression of spaciousness.
These surfaces also combine attractively with white or pale wood furniture thanks to the various effects available: from the concrete or terracotta of collections such as Slow and Slow Cold to the resin style of Flora, by way of the unique tactile appeal of stone.
Continuous indoor/outdoor flooring and paving for a free-flowing home
As already mentioned, using the same material for the indoor flooring and outdoor paving of a home by the sea creates visual and functional continuity, ideal for open-plan kitchens and living-rooms leading onto a terrace.
Here again, porcelain stoneware offers a variety of surface finishes, such as the grip texture for outdoor use, enabling you to break down the barriers between indoors and outdoors and achieve an attractive unbroken flow across the different spaces.
Mixing sizes and effects for a seaside home with a unique personality
Alternating large slabs and small decor tiles is an excellent strategy for creative combinations, such as terracotta effect combined with the wood effect, or stone paired with mosaic.
This solution is highly recommended for homes in boho or eclectic style, as every room can be given a strong, individual character: Marazzi offers plenty of scope for personalisation, with collections that range from small and medium sizes to decorative slabs, for unique, bespoke projects.
Furnishings and floor and wall coverings: a coordinated design scheme to make the most of every space
The floors of a seaside home are the foundation on which the entire interior design project is constructed. The chosen materials and effects must establish a tasteful dialogue with the coverings and furniture, to create an attractive ambience.
Stone-effect tiles and wood-effect porcelain stoneware can be combined in a fascinating mix of materials that evokes the colours and impressions of the Mediterranean landscape.
Marine-style furniture, with natural materials and light-touch finishes, will harmonise perfectly with the seaside home’s pale-coloured yet durable tiles. As always, the details are crucial: matching skirting tiles, minimal joints and meticulously designed sizes enhance interiors’ elegance and ensure that they will be convenient and practical even when the sun and salt are at their most intense.
Choosing the ideal flooring for a seaside home enables every room to achieve its design potential and improves overall liveability. Marazzi porcelain stoneware floor tiles combine exquisite appearance, durability and Italian-made quality, to provide solutions to meet all home design needs.
Check out all the collections available and be inspired by the best floor tile solutions for the interiors of your seaside home, so you can enjoy the beauty of life by the sea every day without sacrificing quality.
