Tile "boar" in the bathroom: features, pros and cons, recommendations for choice

Ceramic tiles are most often used to decorate a bathroom. This material is resistant to high humidity and temperature extremes, relatively easy to clean, and it looks quite impressive. The palette of colors and sizes, as well as shapes is very large, which allows you to find an option to your taste for each person.

Tile with the funny name "hog" is a great solution for decorating the bathroom. What kind of tile is it, how it looks and why it is worth choosing - the article will tell.

"Boar" is called a volumetric rectangular ceramic tile. It has a chamfer, and in appearance it is very similar to a brick. This type of tile is more than 100 years old, its purpose was facade work.

The tile acquired an interesting and memorable name due to the production technology: when the raw materials for the “bricks” were poured into molds, two symmetrical holes resembling a piglet appeared on each. When the ceramics were fired, the blank was split in two, after which two tiles with a convex surface were obtained.

However, there are also faceless models, that is, they do not have a beveled edge.

The advantages of this type of finishing material can be called:

• excellent properties of hardness and strength;
• long service life;
• not subject to destruction due to changes in temperature, humidity and chemicals;
• easy to clean, due to the dense texture of the modules dirt does not eat into them, remaining on the surface;
• the boar does not require a perfectly flat surface, it fits perfectly on any.

Among the shortcomings: the tile is very limited in size, the width is not more than 10 cm, the length is twice as long.

The shades in which the product is manufactured are mass, however, there are the most popular ones.

White is the most common because of its versatility. It can be put in a large and small bathroom. He is good both solo and as a companion for any bright color - red, yellow, turquoise or ultramarine. It is not necessary to combine it with bright tiles - these can be walls painted in saturated colors.

Of course, the classic is combination of black and white. This combination is also used quite often because of the spectacular contrast created by the dark and light tiles laid out in various combinations - chess, blocks, patterns, inverted.

Black tile in the bathroom is a non-trivial and very effective solution. It must be remembered that black modules visually reduce space, and the boar, due to its convex texture, reduces it actually. therefore in small bathrooms it is undesirable to design the interior in the style of total black, this can give the effect exactly the opposite of what is desired.

Gray or beige - the colors are too neutral to perform solo. They can be the basis, and plumbing, for example, is made in black. Or taps, mirror frames can be bright red or gold. The neutral base must be supported with bright accents, then the bathroom will become a place from which you do not want to go.

The traditional color for this kind of premises is blue, but pale tile of this shade is already out of fashion.

The red tiled bathroom is a real challenge to the classic canons.. But it should be remembered that red is a merciless color; it is difficult to psychologically and physically be in an interior that is completely decorated in it. therefore To create an art deco interior, only part of the room can be made red.

Red tile goes well with white, light beige, dairy. In the interior, red can be an accent, a bright spot, but not to solo - it's too hard for the psyche.

Shades of yellow look great in the design "boar", but it is better if the colors are saturatedbut not excessively, but as if slightly dusted. You can support yellow with white, brown, or grass green.

Green tones are another great option for a hog and a bathroom. Bright colors are suitable for “point” calculations, and pistachio, mint or reed can also solo, occupying most of the space. Green is a great companion for white, yellow, black, and orange.

This type of finishing material is available in very different sizes. The smallest is 7.5 cm by 10 cm, and the largest is 28.5 cm by 8.5 cm. The thickness of the boar modules differs from standard ceramic tiles (0.8 cm) and reaches two centimeters due to their inherent bulge.

The smaller the room, the smaller the size of the module., and spacious rooms can be faced with segments of any size using various decorative details.

Despite the rather stringent restrictions on the shape, color scheme (only monochrome), the “wild boar” is nevertheless represented on the market of finishing materials by a fairly wide range of designs and textures. In most cases, the modules have beveled edges (chamfer), which gives volume. A chamfer may have a pointed apex, or it may be rounded. What to choose is up to the consumer to decide.

Monochrome is not a sentence either - Manufacturers are constantly experimenting with the “color” of tiles.

The hog is produced not only from ceramics, but also from glass. This is a very beautiful, voluminous design that not only does not conceal, but also visually expands the room. No need to spread the bathroom from floor to ceiling, but as an emphasis on one of the walls, it looks amazingly impressive.

Modules may have Both matte and glossy texture. Gloss is more common, as its spectacular shine immediately attracts attention. The glossy-tiled bathroom looks more spacious thanks to the play of light on shiny surfaces. Matte texture perfect for styles hi-tech loft but remember that such a lining can turn a bathroom too small into a “box”.

There are 7 main ways of laying ceramic tiles, including the "wild boar". They can be used both separately and in combination with each other.

• Traditional brickwork - the rows of segments are laid out horizontally, each subsequent one is shifted by half of the segment relative to the previous one. This is the easiest and most demanded method, but this does not mean at all that it is ineffective.
• Horizontal stack. There is no bias here, the seam-in-seam layout technology. This may seem very simple from the outside, but in fact, only an experienced veneer can perform the perfect joining of tiles. Each seam should be smooth and accurate.
• Vertical Offset. This is, in fact, traditional brickwork, only in vertical rows. The main thing in this method is not to “knock down” the vertical, the lines should be clearly perpendicular to the floor line. Small bathrooms with this type of layout do not look very impressive, but spacious ones are more than enough.
• Vertical stack. The same as horizontal, but the difficulty of joining the seams also adds the need to maintain verticality. The method is very complex, only specialists can do it.
• Chess - the well-known method of layout, it looks spectacular both on the walls and on the floor. In the case of the “wild boar” the placement is as follows: take two tiles, one is laid horizontally, one vertically. The work is difficult, but the result is worth it.
• Diagonal. This is the most difficult way. The straight diagonal should be truly straight, not wavy. Such painstaking laying of tiles and their joining requires not only skill, but also patience. It looks most spectacular in light performance.
• Herringbone - classic "parquet" layout. The tile will have to be cut at an angle of 45 degrees, but the result can be very beautiful.

See how beautiful a simple boar tile can look beautiful:

• the combination of white and black is very impressive;

• dark accents perfectly set off a white background;

• blue and white bathroom - very fresh and elegant;

• yellow in the interior adds sun and light.

The technology of laying tiles "boar" see below.