Select floor terrace

During warmer months, outdoor terrace is usually transformed into a kind of living under the open sky, it is suitable for their purpose: to gather her family and entertaining guests. To give the situation the comforts of home, equipment and design of the terrace should be given special attention

Making an open terrace to start with flooring - its main component. Materials such as wood, clinker brick and terracotta tiles create a warm home-like atmosphere, "coldish" anthracite-colored concrete slabs make a note of elegance, and be covered patina of natural stone allows you to feel at the moment a knight or a noble lady. Therefore, if you're going to change the look of the old terraces, or build a new one, do not rush to buy building materials and to begin to determine which style you would like to see it.

Floor terrace of the artificial concrete

For many years the choice of flooring, we were guided solely by its functionality. And the most marketable commodity boards were made of artificial concrete - a durable, inexpensive, not requiring any special skills for installation, no complicated maintenance. Today, owners of country houses give no less important decorative aspect: the coating should be, of course, beautiful! Modern concrete coating of the plates and tiles in all their variety, concerning color, size and shape, able to satisfy the customer with the most demanding taste. Someone chooses a neutral-color cover, and someone will also appreciate colorful patterned. Dust settling on this material, fouling it with moss and algae treated with a hamper and a protective surface coating, which greatly facilitates maintenance of a floor of concrete tiles.

Wooden floors

The heightened interest in wooden floors today due to people's desire for comfort. Wood - material of a warm and also natural. The most robust and durable wood, respectively, the larch and teak. Important: in the rain, wood coating becomes very slippery, so it is desirable that the board had "atraumatic" corrugated surface.

Granite floor

Natural stone - granite, porphyry, limestone or sandstone - practically forever. Paved with granite slabs of the floor, even many years later did not lose the beauty with minimal care. The most common granite - gray, but it is also pink and blue shimmer. Natural stone materials expensive and not everyone can afford. But there is an alternative - concrete slabs "Marble" which are not only more affordable, and very diverse in decor, but also very simple in installation.

Floor of the clinker

Clinker bricks for several centuries is widely used not only in building houses, but also in paving. Clinker - a durable material made of fired clay - with the time covered by a beautiful patina and becomes even more decorative. True, the first held more than one decade. For especially eager market of finishing materials now proposed would be a good option - artificially aged clinker with "secular" patina, which perfectly suits the old image stacking "herringbone", who became popular again today. The most beautiful covers with ornamental decorations are created using various combinations of different materials - brick, concrete tiles and artificial stone.
Important: in our area fans of Mediterranean style on the acquisition of finishing materials for exterior use should ensure that they are frost.