The crossroads between all the other rooms of the home, the lounge is also the place for welcoming relatives and friends: a kind of showcase of the residents’ taste and personality. Living room tiles for the floor and walls are inevitably a central feature in the interior design project. Access to a catalogue with many collections offering a wealth of colours, sizes, finishes and thicknesses is thus fundamental, while the freedom to use an array of hyper-realistic and detailed material effects that can easily be combined together and a shade assortment kept constantly up to date is priceless.
However, the living room is not only the most elegant, most carefully furnished room in the home: it is important for the living area to be designed to combine comfort and convenience, paying great attention to factors such as the size and shape of interiors, the amount of natural daylight and the type of artificial lighting.
One trend has now become clear: the contemporary living room is tending to incorporate the kitchen, and often a small study corner, in one large, multipurpose interior. It can be subdivided into two or three main areas with the aid of architectural features (such as panels, suspended ceilings, differences in level, archways or pillars), or simply by choosing floors with different effects. For example, if you are considering a wood effect porcelain stoneware lounge and an open plan kitchen, the ceramic parquet boards can be combined with a stone or concrete effect, just in the cooking area. This will separate the dining area from the kitchen while conserving the lounge’s open plan character.