Planning the floor tiles layout
Planning
As when tiling a wall, it is well worth planning your layout on paper first, particularly if you intend using a. complicated design. For rectangular or square tiles make a scale drawing on graph paper; for hexagons or other specially-shaped tiles, draw the shapes to scale on tracing paper, to act as an overlay to a scale floor plan of the room. From your scale drawings you can see if the layout you have in mind is going to work.
It will help you set out an attractive design and it will also enable you to work out the number of tiles you will require. Mark on your plan the position of fixtures such as a WC, wash or sink stand, cupboards or pipes to indicate where cutting will be required – where necessary adjust your plan so you will not have to cut pieces which are too narrow for convenient cutting.
Similarly, your layout should be designed so you avoid having to cut narrow pieces of tile to fit around the perimeter of the room. Floor tiles, being so much tougher, are less easy to cut than wall tiles and attempting to obtain narrow strips is likely to cost you several broken tiles. Where you are not using a_complicated design you can plan your layout directly on the floor. For this you will need a tiling gauge.
Last weekend I’ve read quite interesting interesting text written by Thomas Heatherwick about something called “new kind of architecture”. Full text was published on “The Economist” website – you can find review here: http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2011/12/thomas-heatherwick. In my opinion text is quite interesting for everyone interested in architecture, design, etc.