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With National Tile Day falling on Feb. 23, it’s a timely moment to look at how tile is shaping home design right now. Tile remains the No. 1 surface for bathrooms, patios, and kitchen and bath walls, but its role has evolved. 

Today, tile is setting the tone of entire rooms, bringing warmth, texture, and continuity across kitchens, bathrooms, and living areas, rather than serving as a simple finishing touch, said Ashley Biscan, Interior Design & Trend Expert at Floor & Decor.

“Tile is a material made for self-expression,” she explained. “We’re seeing tile used more intentionally to define spaces, anchor color palettes, and introduce personality through material, scale, and form. From patterns and colors to sizes and textures, custom looks are at your fingertips without a high cost.”

Tile helps a space tell its story, she continued. Through unique craftsmanship and colorways, tile adds to an eclectic touch with applications on floors, walls, and even furniture.

“Tile often sets the stage for multiple layers of design elements and styles,” Biscan noted. For example, checkerboard tile packs a punch in traditional and whimsical spaces, she said.

Floor & Decor is a multi-channel specialty retailer of hard surface flooring and related accessories and commercial flooring distributor. At the end of the third quarter of fiscal 2025, the company operated 262 warehouse-format stores and five design studios across 38 states. Floor & Decor offers a broad in-stock assortment of laminate and vinyl, tile, wood, and natural stone flooring and installation materials and decorative accessories, as well as adjacent categories, at everyday low prices. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Ga.