Lobby Tile Makes A Great First Impression

Featured Image: More Wood Miele 8 x 48 Porcelain Wood-Look Lobby Entrance Floor Tile from Arizona Tile

First impressions are everything! When clients or customers enter your business, they want to be greeted by a welcoming ambiance with thoughtful design. Color and décor are important, but the significance of flooring shouldn’t be underestimated. It’s always wise to strongly consider installing a durable, long-lasting floor tile in a commercial space. As important as flooring is to the look and function of a space, wall tile can have a profound impact on the design aesthetic as well. The lobby of your business is worthy of extra attention to ensure everyone who walks through your doors is immediately struck by a well-thought-out and strategic design plan.

Customers Take Notice

When your client or customer walks through your entry door, you want them to be impressed and feel welcomed, and perhaps even pause to revel in the room’s design. When a person feels comfortable in a space, they’re more likely to relax and engage in the services your business has to offer.  Your lobby in your commercial space may be your business’ first impression, and while we don’t all have the same taste in design, offering neutrality or a custom layout to emphasize your type of business is an important element.

Image: Reflexion Mercury 24 x 48 Large Format Porcelain Lobby Floor Tile from Arizona Tile

If you want to present your customers with a peaceful, modern, and clean setting, the Reflexion series provides just that. With its shimmering appearance and infinite transformations of reflective light paired with the grounded feeling of concrete, it’s hard not to feel inspired by this tile. With four colors spanning from white to black, there is versatility for any type of commercial setting, from a spa to a tattoo shop, to a café. The Bright color option will cause the space to almost glow with its stunning softness, while the Night color choice provides a rich feel that can create stunning contrast. If you like both light and dark for your lobby tile, try using multiple tile colors. Go ahead and create a pattern or place one color on the floor and another on the wall.

Do you have a cute boutique, offer a nice workspace, or run a salon, for instance? Regium switches gears from porcelain for a moment. Regium large format agglomerate marble tile adds a lively look with its resin base embedded with black, gold, and grey marble chunks. With a bright white background and pops of color throughout, Regium is a unique and stunning polished surface that will dazzle your customers.

Image: Regium Agglomerate Marble Retail Store Tile Flooring & Montreal Quartz Countertop from Arizona Tile

If your business wants to offer a cozy, warm ambiance, the More Wood series provides the appearance of wood in four porcelain wood-look colors. Though the aesthetic of real hardwood flooring can be nice, wood is susceptible to many pitfalls, and maintenance is required. More Wood porcelain tile provides beauty without worry—it’s also available with R11 Anti-Slip Finish that helps make an outdoor environment, or wet area, safer from slips and falls. Make a beautiful and memorable statement with this porcelain tile.

Don’t forget stairways… they should not be overlooked if they’re part of your lobby space. Stairways and stairwells are often dark and non-appealing but that can be avoided. Just as you would a general entry,  you can use tile in this space as well. Canyon is a durable porcelain with a variety of tones that mimic the look of slate. Available in four colors of varying sizes, Canyon creates a soft, welcoming atmosphere that can brighten and enrich an otherwise dingy stairway.

Image: Reflexion Mercury 24 x 48 Large Format Porcelain Lobby Stairway Tile from Arizona Tile

Why Tile in Your Lobby?

Here are some great things about using tile in high-traffic areas:

1. Most tile is incredibly durable
2. It offers versatility allowing for different design preferences
3. It’s long-lasting without discoloration or deterioration
4. Most tile is easy to maintain

Owning a business is hard enough, so worrying about more than just routine cleaning isn’t something any business owner wants. Carpet gets dirty and can stain over time. Wood can scratch and absorb moisture. But tile keeps all those headaches at bay. Floors are floors and will get dirty, wet, muddy, and sandy or worse. With tile, you can easily sweep, give it the occasional spot mop, and you’re done. Painted or wallpapered walls can look nice, but over time fingerprints, dirty spots, splashes, etc. can collect and they aren’t always the easiest to keep clean.

Image: Canyon Matte Porcelain Retail 12 x 24 Wall Tile & 24 x 48 Floor Tile from Arizona Tile

Here’s a fun fact: Have you ever been in a subway station and noticed tile on the wall? This is where the subway tile design began. In the early 1900s, New York City installed subway wall tile because people had learned of its sanitary nature and other beneficial factors. NYC chose what became known as subway tile for several reasons:

1. Porcelain and ceramic do not promote the growth of mold or bacteria
2. It’s stain and scratch-resistant
3. It remains true to color
4. Light can bounce through a space more effectively if the tile has a glossy sheen.

Subway stations are mega high-traffic places, so if ceramic and porcelain wall tile can hold up to that action, your lobby wall tile design will be a breeze.

Entry Ways and Others

Lobby wall tile and creative floor tile designs will impress anyone who walks through the doors of your business. With inspiring tile options, your lobby floor and wall tile will completely enhance the environment. At Arizona Tile we want to help inspire you and provide you with the best tile and stone products available. While you’re planning your commercial space, swing by an Arizona Tile store or slab yard to see our products and to talk to our knowledgeable staff. When you have some ideas in mind, use our Just Imagine Tile Visualizer to develop a better  idea of what your tile ideas would look like. If you have questions along the way, please send us a message and our knowledgeable staff will be happy to help.