Everyone crossing your house on the street may not venture inside to experience the interior, but do turn to look at the exterior of your house. Needless to say that beautiful buildings, including houses, can be a monument of pride for a community.
Home elevation design is the ultimate finishing touch to the building, and Elevation tiles are the perfect material to accomplish that.
Why Use Elevation Tiles?
Using exterior wall tiles for home elevation has several benefits apart from the looks and unique design perspectives:
- Durability
- Weather resistant design
- Zero moisture damage
- Provides insulation against heat and noise
- Exterior wall tiles are fire resistant
Vitrified tiles provide these benefits without the hiccups of other wall cladding like wood or metal. You can still achieve the looks using wooden wall tiles for home elevation.
Here are a few concepts and design ideas you can follow for home elevation using exterior wall tiles.
Stone Concepts
Stone cladding designs have been an all-time favourite for exterior wall cladding and elevation tiling in India. These sturdy designs reflect a strong structure and remain unaffected for decades.
Over time several new stone elevation tile concepts have come into the market:
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Sandstone Bricks
Sandstone bricks are a 3D elevation tile design for external wall cladding. These glazed vitrified tiles imitate the appearance of natural sandstone and offer similar durability. However, the water absorption for GVTs is negligible. So, you can be free from weed or moisture growth on the walls covered with these tiles.
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Marble Chips
These greyscale tiles make your walls look like they were made from waste marble chips. The rustic finish of these tiles gets them quite close to the real marble stack.
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Mixed & Split stones
You can try chip-stone patterns if marble chips seem too organised and structured. The combination of irregularly shaped stones feels far more natural than any other tile design.
You can choose from more than five different designs of these elevation tiles at H&R Johnson, e.g., Ledgestone, Harmony, Fieldstone, Chipstone, Edenstone, etc.
Split stones are the monochrome design of these tiles, i.e., it showcases pieces of a single type of stone.
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Slate Bricks
Slate bricks are similar to sandstone bricks in design but get a darker shade like slate stone. You can choose from multiple designs using similar colour scales but different block shapes.
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Rolled Blocks
Elevation tiles with rolled stone block design also bring natural elements with a sense of order to your exterior walls. Available in beige and grey colour themes these tiles are also GVTs with rough natural texture.
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Stone Décor
Stone décor is exterior wall tiles with engraved features and artistic impressions. Using these tiles on your home elevation and boundary walls can bathe your structure with the artistic impressions of the golden age.
Fired Brick Elevation Tiles Concepts
Fired brick exterior wall tiles make your home look like a bare brick structure. While not a common site in India, the red brick building definitely is a site to behold especially if covered with greenery.
You can choose from one of the several options for firebrick cladding tiles – the smaller horizontally or vertically placed bricks without mortar. You also have a choice of two colours red and grey for these tiles.
Wood Concepts for Home Elevation
Wooden elevation concepts are not new but they are gradually catching up in India thanks to the wooden GVTs. The wooden glazed vitrified tiles imitate the appearance of natural wood and offer all-weather wood exterior wall tiles for buildings.
Here are three concepts you can try based on the different types of wooden wall tiles:
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Wood Planks
Wood planks are the most common type of wooden tiles in this category. Available in wood matte and rustic finishes, wood plank tiles have a size of 120x20cm. These tiles feature various shades of wood based on the type of wood it imitates.
Some of the popular shades are Oak, Egyptian, Larch, Maple, Merbau, etc. While these shades are darker, you can also use wooden wall tiles with lighter colours like Pine, Sandal, and Teak.
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3D Wood Carving
3D wood carving designs represent the traditional art of crafting designs on wood for home building. While the woodwork has been quite popular among the cultures of Northern India and South-East Asian countries, tiles make it possible for you to use in any location.
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Lumber Wood Tiles
Lumber wood tiles are larger tiles, i.e., 120x60cm. Unlike planks, these tiles are proper tile slabs and offer a unique appearance for home elevation design. Nonetheless, the appearance remains completely natural as these tiles have a grainy wood-like surface.
Terracotta Décor Elevation Concepts
Terracotta is another earthly shade that can catch the attention of everyone to the building. Various tones of the tile shade provide you with ample options to cover any area of your home elevation.
Terracotta appearance can be more classical and soothing to the eye. At the same time, the glazed vitrified tiles are free from all the flaws of terracotta. For example, a high water absorption rate is absent, the tile colour doesn’t fade, and the tile will look the same even after bearing many storms and summers.
Adhesive & Grouting for Elevation Tiles
You should find the tile manufacturer’s instructions for adhesive type and quality for installing wall tiles, especially in the outdoor environment. Most manufacturers, including H&R Johnson, will offer specialised adhesive solutions for all types of Tiles including exterior wall tiles.
Also, make sure the trowelling gives the adhesive 100% coverage for the tile base. Similarly, use only recommended sealing grout for the external wall tiles like Ardex Endura. Also, remember that you can always check for the best tile ideas with the experts at the leading tile brands.
