Give your home a modern touch with the latest ceramic trends. Get inspired by our tips for selecting flooring, wall coverings, and furnishings with an exquisitely contemporary appeal.
Clean lines, essential materials, neutral colors, and diffused lighting: the modern style revolves around practical and sophisticated design. This style creates cohesive and refined spaces.
Originating and evolving throughout the first half of the 20th century, modern style remains popular thanks to its balanced combination of aesthetics and functionality. Within this style, each piece of furniture, accessory, or decorative element must remain simple, free from unnecessary details, yet fulfilling its intended purpose. Everything should appear visually harmonious.
Ceramic surfaces play a crucial role in defining a home's modern character. Firstly, because they shape the overall aesthetic appeal of spaces, and secondly, because they determine their comfort, practicality, and durability. Panaria’s collections, featuring textured surfaces and elegant finishes, provide ideal solutions for creating highly personalized, contemporary interiors.
Decorating a modern-style home means selecting high-quality materials, versatile solutions, and an essential yet distinctive aesthetic. If modern style is defined by the pursuit of essentiality, then every detail plays a crucial role in creating harmonious and well-organized spaces. Surfaces should be uniform, often matte, and lightly textured, featuring predominantly neutral colors such as gray, white, beige, and taupe.
Porcelain stoneware perfectly suits modern interiors, being durable, practical, and available in a wide range of colors and finishes. Large formats, including thin slabs, allow for minimal grout lines, enhancing the visual continuity of the chosen covering. Its technical performance, combined with increasingly refined aesthetics, makes it the ideal choice for any space in the home. Each surface thus becomes the focal point of a functional yet highly personalized space.
Flooring plays a crucial role in defining the identity of a space. For contemporary interiors, the ideal solution is to choose modern interior flooring with neutral tones and uniform textures. From this perspective, a slightly textured concrete-effect finish integrates seamlessly into any living context.
In addition to providing visual continuity between spaces, porcelain stoneware is also an ideal finish for areas equipped with underfloor heating. Thanks to its physical structure, porcelain efficiently facilitates and evenly distributes heat.
We've already touched on the concrete look. However, when it comes to deciding which porcelain stoneware flooring is most suitable for a modern-style home, there isn’t a single answer. Many collections available today allow you to interpret this style through various color and texture combinations—from the minimalism of the concrete-effect to the elegance of glossy surfaces, and the natural, tactile charm of the stone look.
All of this is possible thanks to modern technologies that allow ceramics to faithfully replicate natural materials, such as stone, wood, and marble, as well as mimic industrial surfaces like concrete and metal. The difference lies in the interpretation. The best results occur when the inspiration material is highlighted with elegance, maintaining consistency in color and style.
Among the styles that best embody the essence of modernity, the concrete-effect undoubtedly stands out. Its architectural strength and distinct yet understated texture immediately convey the modern appeal. As for color, light-colored modern flooring amplifies spaces by enhancing brightness, suggesting openness and airiness. Lastly, glossy surfaces add a sophisticated touch and are perfect for creating refined contemporary environments.
A modern-style kitchen also favors linear surfaces and a functional arrangement of elements, without sacrificing design—on the contrary, aesthetic appeal is achieved precisely by highlighting these features. Tiles for modern kitchens should be easy to clean, heat-resistant, and waterproof, effortlessly withstanding steam and moisture. Thanks to a wide range of sizes, porcelain stoneware can be used for floors, backsplashes, and countertops, often creating exceptional visual continuity, achieved through carefully balanced color combinations.
The use of large-format modern tiles helps to minimize grout lines, contributing to a uniform and sophisticated visual effect. As for modern kitchen countertops, large, thin porcelain slabs offer incomparable advantages by combining style with advanced ceramic technology.
These slabs enable expansive, seamless surfaces and deliver a pleasant monolithic appearance, ideal for highlighting aesthetics such as concrete, marble, or stone. Additionally, they offer the significant benefit of bacteria-resistant surfaces: the most advanced ceramic products integrate continuously active antibacterial technology, eliminating up to 99.9% of surface bacteria, as seen in Panaria’s Protect® technology.
As in the kitchen, in a modern-style bathroom, the design of its few key elements goes hand in hand with functionality. Surfaces should be simple, practical, yet aesthetically refined. Floors and wall coverings in a modern bathroom lend themselves to endless combinations thanks to the variety of effects and finishes available in porcelain stoneware.
If you appreciate modern, colorful bathrooms and enjoy creative touches, you might consider solutions featuring color blocking and vivid accents, or textured combinations. In this case, it’s crucial to carefully select the color palette, considering the furniture and strategically balancing color accents to give your bathroom character.
This is also true when it comes to large-format wallpaper-effect ceramic slabs (such as Panaria’s Glam collection), where color is enhanced by distinctive graphic themes or patterns. In this respect, modern style embraces a hint of eclectic inspiration, allowing for diverse subjects as long as they are well integrated into the space and thoughtfully balanced.
One of the most appealing aspects of designing a modern home is the opportunity to create textured combinations using different surfaces. Porcelain stoneware allows for the pairing of various looks (such as concrete and wood, concrete and marble, or stone and wood), which through their juxtaposition reveal unexpected facets of their character.
Combining a grey concrete-effect surface with a light-colored wood-effect covering, for instance, creates a modern yet welcoming atmosphere, dividing an open living space into distinct areas. When planning these combinations, you can choose either contrast or harmony between the selected surfaces.
Personal taste plays a significant role in choosing styles and color pairings, but porcelain stoneware manufacturers also offer guidance. Ceramic surface catalogs are often designed with special attention to compatibility between collections, simplifying the creation of harmonious interiors.
Panaria’s ceramic surfaces offer endless design possibilities for creating contemporary spaces, where design and functionality characterize every detail, expressing the personality of those who live there. Indeed, one could say that modern style is part of Panaria’s DNA.
Their product range is specifically designed to interpret the home through a warm, welcoming modern style, refined yet never excessive. As previously mentioned, some collections are created specifically to complement each other, fostering carefully designed aesthetic synergies.
This is the case with wall-covering collections like Glam and Workshop, perfect for creating modern bathrooms with vibrant colors, among other applications.
Even combines precision and sobriety with a texture inspired by spatula-applied plaster, providing a discreet aesthetic that’s soft and pleasant to the touch. Even the stone effect can be interpreted in a modern key.
The Surround collection is a perfect example: its richly textured surface with subtle veining and tiny fossil inclusions lends it an authentic character, while its five shades evoke elegant and welcoming atmospheres.
Stone Trace is ideal for those seeking the depth and charm of natural stone. By combining these collections, you can create modern interiors that are cohesive and consistently elegant.
Must is a thin porcelain stoneware collection, suitable for various applications, that emphasizes the purity of white and the intensity of deep black, available in captivating glossy and matte finishes. As a result, Must is perfect for creating modern glossy floors of striking elegance and impeccable aesthetic precision, ideal for open-plan spaces, living rooms, and kitchens that discreetly and luminously furnish interiors with the pure expressiveness of ceramic surfaces.
