Floor Tile Patterns

When you plan the décor of a home, choosing a floor tile pattern is one of the key choices that you will make. You cannot take this decision lightly because tile is hard to replace once you have installed it. Do not feel daunted by the numerous choices in designs and patterns that you will see in any store that sells tiles. You can basically break down all the choices into four categories. Then you have to decide which is right for your home. You may want to consider different tile flooring for different rooms, or you may simply want to maintain a single tile floor pattern throughout the residence.

One Tile Patterns

  • Brickwork Square – This is a simple and efficient pattern for tile flooring. Dimensions differ but many producers offer 12 inch by 12 inch bricks and sell them by the hundreds. There is some leeway in color choice and you can always decide whether you want a rough finish or a lacquered surface.
  • Circular Rectangular – Using rectangular tiles, these home tile patterns radiate out from a point and give the floor an attractive appearance. You can get each tile in the six inch by 12 inch size or a larger 12 inch by 18 inch dimension.
  • Brickwork Vertical – While only using a single type of tile, tile installation using this design makes the floor appear more complex by alternating their placement. The continuous grout line of some simple tile patterns is broken up in this approach. Multiple tile sizes are available for this scheme.
  • Diamond – This is essentially a simple scheme for tile flooring but rotated so that anyone walking on it sees diamonds instead of squares beneath their feet.
  • Checkerboard – This pattern is commonly seen on a kitchen floor. It is essentially a simple design of squares given a more interesting appearance by alternating the colors or the hues of each tile.
  • Herring bone – Rectangular tiles are placed to form L-shaped floor tile patterns that break up the monotony of the tile flooring. These are available in the six inch by 12 inch versions and as 12 inch by 18 inch versions.

Two Tile Patterns

  • Corridor – A square tile and a smaller rectangular tile team up to create a design using alternating lines of tiles that vary in thickness. This pattern is known as corridor because it gives you the sense of traffic on a road when you look at it.
  • Hopscotch – Each tile in this pairing is a square but one is much larger than the other. The entire floor must be carefully planned to make sure that these pairs fill all the space.
  • Cobblestone – This design makes an ideal bathroom floor tile pattern with a small, square tile equal in size to the width of the rectangular tile with which it is paired. The design is complex and requires six rectangles and four squares to complete.
  • Windmill – A clever use of the same small square tile and a thin, rectangular tile. Four of the rectangles circle around a small square tile and give the appearance of a turning windmill.
  • Alternating – Just as its name suggests, this design uses a big square tile and a rectangular tile in an alternating sequence to break up a possibly boring similarity in home tile patterns.
  • Pinwheel – Similar to the cobblestone floor tile patterns, this set up uses thin rectangles and small square tiles to create a larger pattern. In this case, four rectangular tiles and eight small squares create an interesting pattern for a tile floor.

Three Tile Patterns

  • Divisible – Guaranteed to hold your attention, this design depends on clusters of alternating similarity to catch your eye. An L-shape is created by a large square tile as one arm, four small square tiles as the elbow of the pattern and two thin rectangular tiles as the other arm. Both the rectangles and the small squares are equal in size to the large square when they are put together.
  • Trellis – This pattern is simple yet pleasing to the eye. A large square tile forms the largest part of a bigger square that is completed by two rectangular tiles and a small square.
  • Block – The pattern appears simple yet is made of three distinct tiles of different size. They form an L-shaped floor tile patterns that begin with the large square, continue with one truncated rectangular tile and finish the remaining, smaller arm with a small square tile.

Multi Tile Patterns

  • Cyprus – One of the more complex floor tile patterns possible, this design depends on tiles of four different sizes and shapes to create an intricate floor scheme of interlocking tiles that do not have an easily described, overall shape.
  • Modular Pinwheel – This design excludes the thin rectangular tile but uses three different sizes of squares and a large rectangle to create a pattern that remains simple while it simultaneously engages the eye with an interrupted floor pattern.
  • Brick Joint – This pattern relies on four different tiles to create a series of alternating geometric designs of the floor. The basic pattern begins with a very large square tile joined to a rectangular tile with about half its width. This is followed by two small, square tiles of different sizes.

These floor tile patterns can be used in any section of a home or business. You can alternate patterns in different rooms or maintain a single design for the entire residence. Each pattern of tile has its own attractive aspect.