Sea-air whites & blues

Coastal living-room tiles

Coastal living rooms favour warm, breezy floors that disappear into the architecture. A pale-grey or sand-toned large-format porcelain reads like washed concrete; a bleached-oak plank porcelain reads like beach-house timber. Either way, finish matte, grout tone-on-tone, format large. Layer with linen-upholstered seating, sisal or jute rugs, and one piece of timber furniture. The hard surface is the canvas — the room's softness comes from textiles, not the tile.