Outdoor flooring: style tips for an impeccable patio

Style solutions and furnishing ideas for home patio design.

Before delving into the search for the most suitable material for your needs, it is good to clarify the authentic definition of patio, a word of Spanish origin which means courtyard, square. It is in fact a space located outside a house, usually provided with flooring and in some cases covered with a hut or cladding: a perfect place to engage in outdoor activities, relax after a stressful day or organize parties and small events for friends and family.

Green light therefore for a few but essential decorative elements, such as floral arrangements, comfortable and trendy seats and an ad hoc lighting system to create an intimate and suggestive atmosphere.

Precisely because of its importance, the patio must necessarily be provided with safe and reliable flooring, as well as aesthetically in line with the architectural style of the entire home.

The advantages of porcelain stoneware for outdoors

Porcelain stoneware is the best material to cover your patio floors. Among the criteria taken into consideration:

- ease of installation;

- resistance to atmospheric agents and loads, shocks and moulds;

- anti-slip and water-repellent properties;

- plurality of colours, effects and finishes;

- numerous thicknesses specifically designed for outdoor flooring.

Thanks to porcelain stoneware, it is possible to choose between different effects to create a patio flooring, respecting the technical requirements for a safe and long-lasting outdoor space.

How to choose the best porcelain stoneware for the patio: style advice from Ceramica Rondine

Regardless of the space available, the patio can certainly add great value to a home. Thanks to the most modern production techniques, Ceramica Rondine's outdoor collections are able to faithfully reproduce material effects such as wood, concrete, terracotta and other natural stones, or even the cementine effect.

The patio represents an area of communication and passage between the interiors and the exteriors, for example between the house and the garden. The most suitable choice, therefore, is to follow the leitmotif of the home, both from the point of view of the furnishing style and as regards the shades to be used. You can even think of installing the same floor used for the interiors outside, with the aim of recreating a pleasant effect of visual continuity.

The Angers stone-effect collection, produced with Advance technology, ensures maximum coherence between the patio and interior environments, drawing inspiration from the material expressiveness of natural slate, proposed in a porcelain stoneware of incomparable beauty and with refined contemporary shades.