The Healing Home
In 2020, when the pandemic led people to seek to enrich their lives with well-being, the home became the primary place for self-care, meditation, and healing practices. The desire for wellness spaces has remained stable since its peak in 2020 and remains a top design consideration in the healthcare, hospitality, and residential segments. Research shows that products and designs that support mindful spaces and self-care practices will have momentum for years.
Alternative Spaces for Wellness
Consumers in the residential market are looking beyond traditional spaces for rest and relaxation as they seek alternative spaces for wellness activities outside of the bedroom and bathroom. Gardens, outdoor living spaces, yoga rooms, and living rooms are now coming into wellness conversations as consumers seek more communal areas where friends and family come together. Homeowners seek to blur the lines between indoor and outdoor environments by creating seamless transitions with windows, doors, and flooring.
Concrete-look porcelain tiles – beautiful, durable and eco-friendly with none of the required upkeep of porous concrete – are crafted from natural materials for the ultimate organic flooring choice. Explore Trajectory poreclain tile collection.
Marblique porcelain tile’s revolutionary Visual Touch™ technology, manufactured in partnership with Italy’s Ceramica del Conca, brings life to design with rich, textural realism.
Indoor-Outdoor Transitions
Porcelain flooring collections that contain matching indoor and outdoor tiles are an exciting way to create those seamless indoor-outdoor transitions. The exterior pavers look like the interior tiles but the surface offers enhanced traction for slip-resistance. Check out Crossville® Beljn™, Portugal™, Owen Stone™, and Stone Fiction™ porcelain tile collections for creating spaces that flow beautifully from indoors to outdoors.
Carbon-neutral Beljn porcelain interior and exterior tiles are inspired by Belgian limestone and feature white veining, coal lines, and even visible fossils.
Inspired by Portuguese Atlantic Dark Limestone, Portugal porcelain indoor-outdoor tiles are different from others of its kind, featuring a subtle, organic surface that delivers a sophisticated, tactile elegance.
Stone Fiction porcelain tile collection is the elegantly effortless alternative to travertine. Each tile convincingly reinterprets stone’s naturally dramatic pits in subtle, easy-to-clean depth.
Outdoor Living
Outdoor surface solutions must be slip-resistant, freeze/thaw-resistant, and UV-resistant. While there are surfacing solutions that offer some of these attributes, none of them stand up to the tasks like porcelain tile.
Taking its cues from the elegance of Italian Pietra di Cardosa and merged with technical advancements, Owen Stone is a porcelain tile unlike any before. The porcelain exterior tiles are aesthetically beautiful, yet they can withstand the toughest outdoor environments.
Luxury Bathrooms
But when consumers do talk about bathrooms in wellness conversations, it’s a luxury they want. People are demanding more from their bathrooms to accommodate elevated treatments and self-care rituals and to create hotel-like spa experiences at home. Cold plunge therapies, saunas, outdoor baths, and long soaking baths are a big part of wellness conversations. Beautiful, water-resistant, easy-to-maintain porcelain and ceramic tiles are the perfect surfacing solution for any luxury bathroom where wellness is top of mind.
Stone Fiction’s travertine look makes for a stunning, waterproof surface in this luxurious spa-like bathroom.
Beljn porcelain tile in large format and mosaics.
What’s more luxurious than a bathroom with marble-look floors and walls? Marblique’s Vistual Touch™ technology replicates the look of sophisticated natural marbles with unparalleled accuracy.
Restorative Softness
In residential design, homeowners and interior designers who prioritize wellness and care are looking to incorporate soft-touch surfaces to provide a restorative impact. Did you know that porcelain tile can be soft? Crossville’s carbon-neutral Beljn porcelain tile collection has our new state-of-the-art FeatherSoft™ finish for an extraordinarily touchable interior surface that is buttery-smooth. Yet, despite its softness, FeatherSoft demonstrates wonderful wet DCOF performance. Our Owen Stone porcelain tile collection’s leathered finish has a silky, cashmere-like feel. These tile collections are perfect for bare-feet floors and luxuriously soft wall finishes. They must be touched to be believed, so be sure to order free tile samples to experience the tactile magic for yourself.
Beljn porcelain tile is buttery soft to the touch yet demonstrates a wonderful wet DCOF performance.
Owen Stone’s leathered finish has a silky, cashmere-like feel, perfect for bare-feet floors.
Indoor Environmental Quality
Indoor environmental quality, or IEQ, encompassing thermal comfort, acoustics, lighting, and air, is vital in shaping our health and well-being. Let’s explore how porcelain and ceramic tile walls or floors can contribute to IEQ.
Notorious porcelain tile offers big city style in the distinct look of concrete— with superior technical performance.
Air Quality In Healthy Homes
Studies have found that the concentrations of many Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are consistently up to 10 times higher indoors than outdoors. In their quests for healthy spaces, homeowners are prioritizing low-VOC and non-toxic flooring and wall covering for their homes. Allergies are another key concern. Using porcelain and ceramic tiles for surfacing throughout the home is one of the best ways to ensure good indoor air quality, as they have no VOCs and are still one of the best hypoallergenic flooring choices because they don’t harbor allergies (nor germs and viruses). Additionally, porcelain tiles are impervious (water absorption of 0.5 percent or less), which makes them mold- and mildew-resistant. Ceramic tiles are not quite as dense as porcelain and are, therefore, a little more porous. Still, glazed ceramic tiles have superior water resistance compared to many other types of surfaces and are often suitable for shower walls and swimming pool waterlines.
Thermal Comfort
Thermal comfort, a key component marked by temperature, airflow, and humidity, directly affects sleep, mood, and focus. Effective home temperature management incorporates a holistic approach that goes beyond simply adjusting the air temperature.
Ceramic is one surfacing material that can contribute to thermal comfort in cooler or warmer environments. Ceramic and porcelain tiles are “passive solar effective” (the ability of a material or design to take advantage of the sun’s energy to reduce the need for heating and cooling) when used and installed correctly. This means they have an innate capacity to store heat or cold, emitting it later to either warm or cool a house. Due to their thermal mass property, porcelain or ceramic tiles are a good choice for passive solar design.
Porcelain tiles are also excellent conductors of heat, making them ideal for use with radiant heating systems, which distribute heat evenly throughout the floor.
Why Crossville Tile for The Healing Home?
In embracing wellness at home, Crossville’s porcelain tiles emerge not only as a functional choice but also as a cornerstone of holistic well-being. From fostering cleaner air and accommodating restorative rituals to enabling the seamless blend of indoor and outdoor living spaces, our tiles are integral to creating environments that promote health and tranquility. Whether through the tactile luxury of the FeatherSoft finish or the durable elegance that withstands the elements, Crossville’s innovative offerings prove that the foundation of a healing home lies not just in its aesthetics but also in its materials. By choosing Crossville, homeowners can rest assured that their spaces are designed not just for today but for a sustainable, wellness-focused future.
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