If you think ceramic and porcelain tiles are only for walls and floors, listen to the latest trend alert: ceilings are declaring, “We are part of the show too!”
We are living through a time when home life and interior design have gained great importance. Homes, where we live, work, socialise, create and, in short, spend almost all our time, have moved far beyond the basic need for shelter. Your space is now your home, your workplace and your social hub. It also carries equally important meanings and roles as an extension of your character, your inner self and your imagination.
This is precisely why the need to personalise spaces is gathering pace. Instead of replica living spaces that all look alike, interiors are emerging with creative features that express their owners’ inner worlds. This personalisation takes shape around the occupant’s habits, passions, daily rhythms and tastes.
One of the most prominent trends for the coming period, ceiling decoration is a small part of the movement to distinguish a home from a thousand others around it and personalise it creatively. Ceilings have become the newest playground in interior design as designers, accustomed to working with every surface in a room, have realised that they have repeatedly overlooked a small detail and left it out of their plans.
When ceiling decoration is mentioned, plaster ornamentation and cornices may naturally spring to mind, but the subject has long since moved beyond them. Like floors, ceilings now dance from colour to colour, material to material and corner to corner, establishing themselves as a focal point in the room.
There are various ways to make a ceiling stand out through texture, but ceramic and porcelain tiles offer one of the most effective solutions. The first reason is that, whatever material you choose, the world of tiles offers a much more affordable counterpart with the same aesthetic. Cladding a ceiling in gold, bronze or silver, for example, may seem beyond imagination, yet creating this effect with decorative tiles is straightforward. Heritage from the Formart collection in the Çanakkale Seramik family is an excellent way to highlight classic elegance overhead. Its handmade metallic and glossy surface options allow you to introduce both a jewel-like effect and a bright colour accent to your ceiling.
So where should you apply it? The answer lies in the lines above: only in the area you wish to highlight. As a contact surface, the floor needs a covering for functional reasons; walls are covered in selected areas to bring the theme to life and create a backdrop. To enliven the ceiling, however, you need to choose a focal point and use the right texture in the right place. For example, you could define the area above the kitchen island, the gathering place for so many enjoyable occasions, and cover that section with colourful tiles. A beautiful pendant light will also connect the vertical and horizontal elements.
Wood-effect and three-dimensional ceramic tiles offer another example. If you want to give your home a rustic chalet atmosphere, you can cover the floor and ceiling with ceramic tiles that recreate wooden floorboards. The most important point here is to leave the walls bare; otherwise, you will make the space feel much smaller and visually overwhelm it.
Three-dimensional ceramic tiles with wave effects or fluted profiles create a highly artistic focal point on the ceiling. Since reflected light and shifting shadows also come into play with three-dimensional tiles, choose a colour that fits as closely as possible with your home’s overall palette.
Finally, we come to a space where ceiling tiles are already used: the bathroom. You need not cover the entire room, but if you want to distinguish the shower area both functionally and visually, you can create a cocoon by continuing the same tiles from the floor up the walls and across the ceiling. Here too, the best solution is to choose tiles that suit the overall dimensions of the space. Mosaic tiles remain the most popular choice for this combination of bathroom surfaces. If you wish to separate the shower area with metallic-effect mosaics, we recommend Çanakkale Seramik’s İpek Kapitone Bronz tiles from the Gelin collection. If you are looking for a slightly more modern design and a broader colour palette instead of mosaics, be sure to explore Çanakkale Seramik’s Miniatile-Windsor series.
