Solutions and ideas for the floors of an attractive modern home

The choice of floor for your home is one of the key points in its interior design, since this surface combines with the walls and ceilings to define the envelopes of the individual rooms and of the interior as a whole.

By choosing a concrete or marble effect stoneware floor covering or a parquet with a running-bond or herringbone layout, you can clearly proclaim your adoption of a style and an idea of what a home should be.

The floor can therefore be thought of as a kind of base, a horizontal frame within which the other design features can be placed, choosing them in matching or contrasting colors depending on the intended look and mood.

Nowadays, to gather ideas for the floors of your home you have only to browse the many images made available by the specialist press and producers on their web pages, or scroll the virtually endless feed of social media platforms like Pinterest or Instagram. Once you’ve put together a nice collection of inputs, inspiration is sure to follow and your new porcelain stoneware, wood, marble or resin floor will be ready to create a lovely, comfortable new home.

Now let’s find out together how to choose the perfect floor for your home, bearing in mind factors such as:

• the context of the home itself: a floor for a seaside home will very probably be different from a floor for a country home with the same spacial and functional characteristics
• the floor’s colors and materials, to be matched with those of the other surfaces, the furnishings and the fittings
• the functional and technological details of the possible solutions

Stone-effect stoneware slabs for the floor of a home in town

The home’s context – in town, by the sea or in the country – is one of the crucial factors when creating an interior design. In fact, a carefully designed relationship between the interior and its outdoor surroundings, both visual and perceived and emotional in the broader sense, generates an immediate sense of harmony and “rightness” noticeable in every detail.

Over time, this makes the home a pleasure to live in, and ensures that every room has a positive, relaxing, welcoming vibe.

Let’s imagine we’re in town and walk into an apartment in a residential block. Behind us is a stairwell with marble flooring, its walls painted in pale, light, neutral colors. Daylight floods in through the large windows, which offer glimpses of greenery and perhaps the balconies of the building opposite.

Looking through the many solutions and ideas for the floors of the home, to achieve a stylish overall effect we might opt for a surface in which every discontinuity is masked by the large size of stone-effect porcelain stoneware slabs, with only moderate shade variation, with straight, rectified edges and colored grouts.