A 2010 article written by kitchen designer Ronique Gibson has given one strong word of caution on selecting tiles for your kitchen walls and backsplashes.

Remember that your kitchen walls will have to handle food, drinks, soap, oil, grease, and hot water stains!

Therefore, select high quality easy to clean porcelain wall tiles for your kitchen, pantry, cooking area, or equipment corners! In addition,

Have you thought about using strong glass-effect tiling for your kitchen walls? Cynthia Bowman, a foreign home landscaping designer, has written in 2018 that glass walls and vertical backgrounds are useful to decorate rooms of your home.

We at Idel have several industrial grade glass looking ceramic porcelain wall tiles as well as floor tiles. All of our glass-effect tiles are manufactured in Italy and are popular in hotels, apartments, business offices, and supermarkets of Colombo, Negombo, Chilaw, Katunayake, and other cities of Sri Lanka.

However, the interior design and architecture researcher Simona Ganea (2017) have said that terracotta porcelain tiles are the most suitable for kitchens and bathrooms. In addition, she has stressed the importance of using different shaped wall and floor designs – from hexagons to rectangular tiles as well as extra large tiles. Using a combination of these for your house, shop, or office walls will paint a breath-taking scenery that will satisfy the senses of your customers, visitors, and family members.

Remember food fights in your school, home, or crazy office? And then after just a few milliseconds of fun, do you remember cleaning up food, drinks, and plates? Yes, if the floors, walls, table surface, and countertops were of an average material, then cleaning up was a nightmare!

Chefs, culinary enthusiasts, and home cooks will also know that while everyone would praise your delicious meals, it is like a political rally aftermath when meal time is over. Food stains all over, grease and oil spots everywhere, liquid beverages spilt on the floor, plates and spoons on every nook and corner!

However, fear not, chefs, mothers, and the occasionally-cooking husbands! Idel Tiles import and deliver the best quality tiles of all sizes and shapes to any home or office in Colombo, Negombo, Gampaha, Puttalam, Galle, Kurunegala, or any other Sri Lankan city! We distribute marble, wood, stone, terracotta, fabric, granite, and other types of ceramic porcelain tiles that look fabulous in any kitchen!

Furthermore, all of our tiles are made and designed in Italy by leading Italian companies with experience that begins in the 1930’s! Therefore, the extra-high quality of all our kitchen, pantry, barbeque-area, countertops and cabinet surface tiles are all guaranteed by ISO and other international organisations.

According to a customer, Conall Smith (2017), ceramic porcelain tiles are stain-resistant and moisture-resistant. Furthermore, Smith has advised other customers that tile flooring is the most preferred choice for houses, hotels, company offices, supermarkets, and other buildings because of the high-level of quality. Another customer, Divya Shah (2018), has advised future tile buyers that actual ceramic porcelain floor tiling is waterproof.

John Riha (2016), a professional author and researcher, has confirmed that the most common and natural kitchen floors are ceramic porcelain tiling due to many advantages, including the hardness of the material, water-resistant, and fights stains easily.

As we found out above by studying the opinions of designers and researchers as well as the personal experiences of previous tile customers, if you select ceramic porcelain tiles for your kitchen floors as well as walls, you will immediately receive the following valuable benefits:

1. Easy to clean and less maintenance is required
2. Stain-resistant
3. Waterproof and moisture-resistant
4. Fireproof and smell-resistance
5. Durable, tough, and long-lasting for decades.

Corina Wilson (2014), a professional home cleaner in Washington of the USA has suggested that ceramic porcelain tiles can be cleaned very easily. Just using water once a week or once a month (depending on how busy your home or office is) will be sufficient in most scenarios.

Furthermore, Corina Wilson (2014) has advised customers to follow a set of guidelines when cleaning kitchen ceramic porcelain tiles, for floors and walls:

1. Use water for light cleaning
2. Use a cloth, sponge, or soft mop and avoid hard or sharp equipment
3. For tough unclean tiles, drops of vinegar with water is recommended
4. Clean regularly, once a week or month depending on use
5. For unglazed tiles, the water should be dried soon after cleani

Architect Ronique Gibson of Florida, USA, said in 2010 that the best tiles should be able to withstand cleaning, oil splatters, and grease. We at Idel only import and deliver grade A Italian-designed tiles that are uni-body, heavy, beautiful, and ISO-certified.