When creating a more contemporary, high-end, expansive, and streamlined appearance, it’s hard to beat the out-of-this-world appearance of large, stylish porcelain slabs. Whether embracing the latest minimalist trends, creating a more engaging and welcoming living space, or simply looking to create that clean, seamless look, there are numerous ways to incorporate larger porcelain tiles in kitchen and bathroom renovations.
Large Porcelain Slabs for Bathrooms and Kitchens
While porcelain has always been used for bathroom tile and kitchen tile, up until quite recently, it’s largely included smaller tiles or slabs. Unfortunately, multiple smaller porcelain tiles mean more grout lines, and more grout lines mean more unappealing dirt, grime, and unsightly residue.
Not only do large-format porcelain slabs eliminate multiple grout lines, but they also provide a more uniform, leveled, cleaner, and more visually appealing surface. Given their exceptional strength and durability, alongside incredible stain, moisture, and impact resistance, today’s large-format porcelain tiles are the ideal solution for high-traffic areas and sleek, modern-looking living spaces.
With the ability to mimic natural wood, stone, marble, or slate, large porcelain tiles are a low-maintenance, incredibly affordable, and versatile design option that comes in a vast array of colors, designs, textures, and styles. Here are some ways to leverage large-format porcelain slabs within your bathroom and kitchen.
Large Format Porcelain Slabs for Kitchens
Say goodbye to conventional and antiquated square-foot porcelain kitchen tile. Instead, refresh your kitchen with larger, more expansive, and far more impressive 72-inch or larger porcelain slabs. With large-format porcelain tiles, you’re able to create a more open and more expansive living area.
- The Perfect Flooring Solution
From enhanced visuals to creating a wider, open, and more welcoming kitchen floor, large-format porcelain tile flooring can help your kitchen appear larger and more appealing. When positioned properly, larger porcelain tiles give the appearance of a single cut-out surface laid down on your kitchen floor. It’s this appearance of wider spaces that makes large porcelain tiles the go-to solution for visual expansion.
- Uniformed Backsplash
One of the more frustrating outcomes of a smaller tile backsplash is how it becomes uneven over time, making it a less-than-appealing surface. While this unevenness can be caused by the type of tile used, how it was installed, or the tile adhesive, it can also be caused by having multiple grout lines, which is an all-too-common outcome with smaller porcelain tiles.
With large-format porcelain slabs, these problems can be avoided altogether, ensuring everyone who enters your kitchen immediately comes away impressed.
- The Ultimate Kitchen Island
Large-format porcelain slabs are a more affordable option that can convey the same high-quality look as marble or high-end wood. Much easier to clean and maintain, having a kitchen island with large-format porcelain slabs creates a visually striking and more-than-impressive appearance without the added cost of marble, granite, or quartz.
- Kitchen Countertops
Large porcelain slabs also have a place as a material for your kitchen countertops. Whether it’s accentuating your existing layout, wanting to contrast other porcelain slab colors, or just creating the ultimate surface and meeting place, large porcelain slabs can create that one-of-a-kind look your kitchen has longed for.
- Vein Matching
Matching veins on beautifully styled porcelain tile is incredibly difficult when using 12 x 12-inch kitchen tile. However, that’s not the case with large porcelain slabs. The ability to perfectly match the veins and lines on decorative porcelain is much easier when using larger-format porcelain slabs. The end result is an incredible, head-turning visual and aesthetic that adds instant refinement.
Large Format Porcelain Slabs for Bathrooms
Create a stunning and bold look while eliminating drab, outdated bathroom tile so often overrun by soap scum, streaks and discoloration. With a wider surface area, large-format porcelain slabs can instantly transform the look and feel of your bathroom without the time and maintenance required with conventional smaller porcelain tiles.
- Stylish Showers
Larger-format porcelain slabs will make soap scum, hardwater deposits, streaking, discoloration and mold and mildew a thing of the past. With large porcelain slabs, you can create a great-looking, floor-to-ceiling shower with fewer grout lines and a more even and consistent surface. Your shower will be much easier to clean and maintain while offering unparalleled style.
- Cleaner, Sharper-Looking Flooring
That same great feeling can be extended to your bathroom flooring. With larger porcelain tiles and fewer grout lines, your flooring will appear spotless, no matter how much foot traffic it gets.
- Paneling
Bathrooms look their best when they look and feel clean. However, it’s never just about cleanliness but about combining different patterns and textures. Using larger porcelain tiles for wall paneling means you have a non-porous, easy-to-maintain, and easy-to-clean surface that can add instant flair and grandeur to your bathroom.
- Modern, Contemporary Vanity
With made-to-fit porcelain slabs, you can achieve whatever pattern, look, and feel you want for your bathroom’s vanity without breaking the bank. From being cut to any-sized shape or configuration to coming in numerous different colors, styles, and patterns, there is no limit to what you can achieve when using large-format porcelain slabs for your vanity.
Achieving the Look You Want with Saran Tile
For over 40 years, Sarana Tile has been the go-to solution for homeowners looking for high-quality, high-end, durable, great-looking, and affordable porcelain, glass, and ceramic tiles.
To learn more about how larger-format porcelain slabs can replace your bathroom tile or kitchen tile, contact us now.