Modern interior floors: ideas and tips

The characteristics of modern interior floors

Today’s innovative modern interior floors meet different taste and style requirements than traditional ones. In fact, while in the past architects and interior decorators used to give each room a different floor – the kitchen, for example, stoneware, and the living room marble – today they prefer to install a single, uniform floor in order to broaden the visual perception of rooms. This is because this solution makes spaces appear larger than they actually are. Here are plenty of ideas and advice for making the most appropriate furnishing choice in stylistic and functional terms.

Modern interior flooring: ideas and tips for choosing

By replacing a single tile with a special, hand-laid one, it is possible to give a completely different and trendy look to the room. However, those who are in the process of planning a new home, or simply have the desire to renew the look of the rooms in their home, cannot help but consider installing one of the modern interior floor models.

Making the right choice is crucial to giving your home a trendy look. In fact, a wrong choice is not only about an undesirable aesthetic appearance, but is also related to an investment issue in terms of wasted time and money. Therefore, it is necessary to think, already at the planning stage, about every smallest detail, perhaps with the help of a professional floor and wall tiling specialist, who is able to harmonise the rooms with modern and trendy furnishings.

Modern interior floors: the styles

Resin or large format stoneware tiles in neutral colours such as black, beige, sand or anthracite grey are preferred for modern interior design. However, thanks to the wide range of modern interior floor models, you can choose the model that best suits your aesthetic needs. In fact, thanks to different materials, shapes and textures, modern interior floor coverings fit in with the style of the furniture, the colour of the fixtures and doors and even the colour of the furniture, the furnishing protagonist of every home. All this without forgetting the functionality of the flooring surfaces. In fact, some materials are more delicate than others and are better suited to certain environments than others.

In particular, if the project for the furnishing of one’s home envisages industrial style furnishings, the materials to be preferred for the floor are concrete or a model with a metallic effect. Whereas, for a more traditional, country style furnishing the most suitable materials for the floor are wood or terracotta. On the other hand, in homes with a classic style, marble in all its declinations cannot be missing.

Modern interior floors: suitable for mixing materials and colours

As mentioned above, modern interior floors are versatile and in addition to adapting to different furnishing styles, they lend themselves very well to combinations, even contrasting ones, of different materials and colours. In fact, thanks to the latest new processes, it is possible to achieve stunning effects suitable for any type of home. However, especially in this case it is important to be able to accurately predict the final effect already at the design stage. This is in order to avoid trivial stylistic errors.  Here are the different types of modern interior floors.

The parquet floor

Among the types of modern interior flooring, parquet is an evergreen that never goes out of fashion. Today, it is also available in large-format planks to meet every need. In every gaso, the preferred and popular wood for Italians remains warm oak, both in natural and matt varnished versions.

Modern PVC wood-effect flooring

Modern PVC floors have established themselves as a real trend in the interior design sector. As well as being an excellent substitute for parquet flooring, as they replicate the effect of wood to perfection, they are practical, hard-wearing and durable. They are also characterised by quick and extremely practical laying.

A young and trendy choice: wood-effect laminate flooring

In addition to parquet and PVC flooring, laminate flooring with a parquet effect is one of the most popular models for flooring your home. This is because these have an excellent ratio between product quality and material price. They are characterised by ease of laying and an extremely pleasant final appearance, the perfect substitute for parquet. Moreover, they are available in a variety of colours in both small and large formats. Ideal for contemporary and youthful projects.

Tips for a marble-effect floor

If you want to enjoy the aesthetic qualities of marble in your home, without necessarily having to spend a fortune, you can opt for a modern interior floor covering in marble-effect porcelain stoneware. Slabs also available in large polished format are much more affordable than natural marble. Furthermore, they tastefully decorate elegant and sophisticated interiors with strong references to the classic style, revisited in a contemporary key.

Venetian-style floors: trendy grit effect and easy to lay

Strange but true! Venetian grit-effect floors are back in vogue! These, thanks to the innovative processing to which porcelain stoneware can be subjected, perfectly replicate the grit cement floor that characterised the homes of the last century. Today, grit-effect porcelain stoneware floors, from coloured ones to those in grey with a polished finish, represent a real furnishing trend that takes the homeowner back in time.  There are many vintage-style projects that see their use, in the kitchen or living room, and they are also characterised by the reinterpretation of retro furnishings in a contemporary key.

Modern stone effect floors for rooms with a strong character

Modern stone-effect floors, also made from a special processing of porcelain stoneware, are also among the modern interior floors of 2022. These, in lighter shades, are ideal for use in square or rectangular formats in the design of refined and prestigious interiors. Whereas, in the darker, slate-effect, black or grey shades, they lend themselves very well to projects with a strong character and strong visual impact. However, in this case the advice is to combine this type of flooring with furniture with soft lines and to focus on the natural light that penetrates into the home thanks to the presence of large windows.

A fashion that doesn’t go away: the concrete effect floor

As mentioned above, those in search of an essential and minimal style can opt for cement or cement-effect porcelain stoneware tiles in a light grey colour. This is because this light shade, especially if opaque, allows endless combinations to be created, leaving ample possibilities for customisation. In addition, it lends brightness to the environment, visually making spaces larger and more airy.

Modern floors: which ones to choose for a trendy exterior?

Porcelain stoneware is also widely used for modern outdoor floors. In this case, both the wood-effect and the stone-effect versions are available with a more resistant thickness of a good 2 centimetres. Ideal for paving balconies, terraces and porches, they can be used in the countryside as well as in the city. In particular, modern wood-effect porcelain stoneware floor tiles for outdoors are ideal for paving a garden with a swimming pool, or a terrace overlooking a beautiful natural landscape.