Modern interiors are increasingly complemented by tile panels. This element has gained immense popularity among modern interior designers and ordinary buyers who want to create their own unique style in the house. We will not hide the fact that collections of ceramic tiles with decorative panels are quite expensive. This is due to the high costs of the manufacturer for the development and production of this interior element.
What is a panel
This word is of French origin. This is the name of a part of a wall or ceiling, which is framed with ornament, stucco and decorated with a sculptural or pictorial image. In addition, it can be a painting or a bas-relief that is made on part of the ceiling or wall.
Well-known manufacturers of ceramic tiles have adopted this technique and present interesting panels every year. Tiles for bathrooms, kitchens look especially impressive in combination with a masterful artistic image.
The easiest way to diversify the surface of the walls- use ready-made decorations. Often, along with traditional borders, collections offer decorative inserts and tile panels. They are a colorful pattern, which is sometimes combined with a pronounced relief, and in size they, as a rule, coincide with the background tile. Usually the panel has a fairly large area, a multiple of 2, 4, 6 background tiles.
The finished image is made on a solid ceramic plate measuring 1×1 m. In addition, it can be typed from individual elements. The plots of such images are endless - from ancient stories to avant-garde geometric paintings.
Quite often recently, tile panels can represent copies of paintings by famous masters, landscapes, still lifes, floral ornaments.
Most often, buyers turn to numerous companies that manufacture tiles with a photo pattern. In this case, they often face an intractable task - how to harmoniously combine the selected finished panel with the interior being created? Usually it is sold as a standalone product, and the problem of its compatibility is shifted to the shoulders of the buyer. Let's say that only a very experienced designer can handle such a task.
Today, many manufacturers of ceramic tiles solve this work together with artists. As a result, each sample is developed for a specific collection of ceramics. When creating a panel, certain image files are selected. The result is an ideal product that matches in format and color.scale.
Choosing pattern
Quite often, customers approach a tile company with a specific idea in mind when choosing a material. They have a good idea of the plot, color and configuration. Some of them prefer tile panels with images of birds and animals, others opt for landscape drawings. To facilitate the choice of the client, colorful catalogs are issued for them. In them, the pattern is presented both in a separate version and in combination with ceramic tiles.
Panel making
Image elements are produced by waterjet cutting. The smallest particles of abrasive, mixing with water, from a special reservoir under pressure come to the place of cutting. A metal superhard nozzle creates a jet of small diameter, which exits it at great speed. The aqueous solution reaches the cut point, and the abrasive particles break off and carry away the smallest pieces of the material being processed along with the water. As a result, a perfectly smooth surface appears on the cut.
Drawing
Images can be applied in different ways - airbrush, decal, mosaic. Traditional compositions from tile manufacturers are usually made in several colors. Often used the addition of different materials in the manufacture of panels. Pastel-colored tiles can be diluted with rich color porcelain stoneware inserts.
Application of panels
Most often this element is used when creating interiors in the kitchenor in the bathroom. However, there are non-traditional areas of its application. For example, ceramic tiles are found in exclusive, original interiors from leading designers. The panel, or rather the decorative composition, is used in the design of gyms and swimming pools in private houses. It is often used even in the bedroom.
Mosaic panel
Such an interior element can be compared with a genuine work of art, both in its beauty and value. It is difficult to distinguish a handmade mosaic panel from a painting. Realistic images with soft transitions of colors and shades are achieved by the method of pinning. Very small mosaic elements are split into even smaller pieces and laid out in full accordance with the developed sketch.
If you look at such a picture close up, one gets the impression of a random arrangement, but if you move a short distance, individual tesserae surprisingly turn into a stunning canvas.
There is another way to create mosaic panels - matrix assembly. This method is simpler and therefore cheaper. The image is assembled from whole tesserae of the minimum size (10×10 mm). Sometimes they are combined with larger parts. To speed up and simplify the laying process, the pattern is selected on cardboard (base).
A layer of paper is glued on top of the created composition, and then cut into parts convenient for transportation. Installers can only lay the individual elements of the panel in the required order,fixed with special glue. As you can see, it's quite simple.
It's no secret that the plot content of a ceramic panel clearly indicates the room in which it is preferable to place it. It is quite obvious that a sample with rural landscapes, still lifes, images of fruit baskets and flowers would be more appropriate in the kitchen. Today, relief paintings are leading in popularity. They are so voluminous that involuntarily there is a completely meaningful desire to take the fruits from the vase.
Widely used in the bathroom ceramic tiles. Panels are often made with marine motifs or traditional floral patterns. You should not think that this is a dogma, this is just advice, a guide to action.
