Terracotta Tiles Bathroom Floor

Best color scheme for terracotta tile floors.

Terracotta tiles bathroom floor.

Get free shipping on qualified terracotta or buy online pick up in store today in the flooring department. This can include spaces such as a powder room changing room or even in part of a half bath arrangement. For thousands of years and across the world architects favored terracotta tiles to build iconic structures. The word terra cotta means baked earth in italian and its rich orange and brown coloring certainly lives up to its name.

The broad category of clay ceramic tiles contains several subcategories and one of the oldest is terracotta. Terracotta translates from italian as baked earth and as a category of ceramic tile it refers to tiles created from a particularly porous and easily shaped clay with a high iron content that gives the tiles their characteristic reddish brown color. Terracotta tile flooring isn t ideal for direct installation in most bathrooms but if properly sealed it can be used in locations around the bathroom. I really love the soft turquoise here as a perfect complementary color to that dominant terracotta.

Both ancient chinese palaces and classical greek temples had roofs built from these tiles.