Connected Living – Inside & Out | Contemporary Timber

Wooden boards are often thought of as a traditional floor finish but, whilst incorporating the irregular grains, figures, knots and notches of natural wood, porcelain planking can be produced to exacting specifications with precision rectified edges and continuous calibrated sizes.

Porcelain tiles can also be manufactured in a wider range of colours but with greater consistency. Higher pattern frequencies ensure the diversity and distribution of the design appears organic, but production in parcels using the same batch of raw materials ensures a homogeneous chromatic finish. The most avant-garde ranges include the silver tones of birch, through tints of teak and hazelnut, to ashen oak and ebony.

Essenza Oudh

As the name suggests, Essenza Oudh seeks to capture the essence of wood in its design and embraces the urge to get back in touch with nature using materials with tactile textures and warm, natural colours.

These wonderful wood-effect tiles, in various lengths and large format slabs, are designed with the look of a closer grain pattern and with all the technical advantages of a high-performance porcelain product.

This is a very versatile range with seven creative colours that echo the elegance and tactile texture of timber, providing designers, architects and property developers with exciting options to experiment and differentiate their developments with new surface solutions. For use on walls or floors, with specifications for installation inside or outdoors, the breadth and depth of this wood-look series is unprecedented in terms of the choice of sizes, colours, formats, decor tiles and mosaics.

Further details for the Essenza Oudh range are available on our website here.

Twelvenoon

Twelvenoon has the wonderful warmth of weathered wood with the gnarly knots and gorgeous graining you would expect in the natural product, but with all the practical benefits of man-made porcelain. With Matt / Natural and Grip / Textured surface options for inside and outdoors, whilst Twelvenoon looks more distressed and open grained, it has a softly structured surface for comfort underfoot.

Unlike true timber, porcelain tiles have near zero porosity and are therefore almost entirely impervious to water, oil and dirt. As such they highly resistant to damage from frost or heat, are efficient conductors of underfloor heating and will not distort, fade or split with time.

Twelvenoon’s contemporary credentials are evidenced in the five forward-looking colourways that echo the urban ambiance of warehouse lofts and factory floors. We’ve seen great examples of different designs being mixed to create patchwork quilts of colour, or plank shapes interlaid between strips of chevron format tile to create interesting textures and patterns.

Visit our website to explore the Twelvenoon range in more detail, here.

In the next and last article in this Connected Living series, we’ll take a closer look and tiles collections with Microfine finishes.