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Resort Life: Crafting Unforgettable Resorts with Crossville

May 15, 2024

Building Incredible Resort Spaces with Crossville Tile

The selection of surface materials in hospitality resort design is not just a matter of aesthetics but a crucial aspect that can significantly impact the functionality and durability of the spaces. High traffic and varying environmental conditions necessitate careful consideration of the type of surface materials a designer or architect would specify for a resort design. Tiles, in particular, whether porcelain, ceramic, or glass, are key players in this process, as they combine aesthetics, functionality, and durability to create the right ambiance and ensure the designs endure in both form and function for years to come.

Choosing the Right Tile Material

Porcelain, ceramic, and glass tiles are perfectly suited for public gathering areas in hospitality and multifamily properties due to their durability, longevity, and wide range of aesthetic options. Porcelain tile’s resilience against high foot traffic makes it a practical choice for busy areas, while its extensive design possibilities ensure it can complement any design style. Property owners and designers can leverage tile to craft inviting and luxurious spaces that support diverse activities and maintain aesthetic appeal.

Porcelain Tiles

Known for their durability and low water absorption rate, porcelain tiles are ideal for floors and walls in high-traffic areas such as lobbies, hallways, bars, restaurants, and cafes. Porcelain tile is extremely hard and durable, easy to maintain, and long-lasting. While most of Crossville porcelain tile can be used outdoors, safety is paramount, especially in areas like bathrooms, patios, and pool decks. Specifying exterior finish porcelain tiles that offer enhanced traction is an ideal option to ensure the resort guests’, employees’, and homeowners’ safety. Crossville offers exterior finish options for use in these potentially slippery areas.

Stone Fiction exterior finish porcelain tiles are the elegantly effortless alternative to travertine.The soft, swirling surface graphics and mild, neutral colorpalette emulate what Mother Nature created in travertine’s distinct mineral deposits.

Ceramic Tiles

Similar to porcelain, ceramic tiles offer a wider variety of designs and are suitable for vertical surfaces such as bar backslashes, restroom walls, shower walls, pool waterlines, water features, and decorative focal points.

Each Cursive ceramic tile has a handmade appearance with a watercolor effect around the edges. Create unique and inspiring patterns with Cursive’s triangle tile, circle tile, half circle demilune tile, and more- all in nine trending colors.

Glass Tiles

Glass tiles are waterproof, stain-resistant, low-maintenance, and easy to clean. Glass tiles are beautiful for vertical installations indoors or out, but because these resilient tiles are light-reflective, they invigorate outdoor spaces with vivid color and create a shimmery effect when reflecting off the water. Glass tiles and glass mosaics can be used in pools, fountains, fireplace surrounds, outdoor spas, pool waterlines, and accent walls or backsplashes in outdoor decks and bars.

Convergence glass tiles capture the look of end-grain woods is awash in 8 vibrant colors and cast in polished glass for lustrous effect. The glass mosaics meld bio-mimicry with an artistic splash, bringing a natural visual and glamorous shine to your design.

Create The Most Relaxing, Awe-Inspiring, Tranquil Vibe from The Indoors to Out with Crossville Tile

Crossville offers a variety of tile, panel, and slab collections designed to enhance both interior and exterior spaces. These collections are ideal for infusing a touch of luxury into the lifestyle of residential and commercial areas alike. Our tile products range includes everything from low-maintenance, marble-look porcelain to robust exterior finishes. Built to last, Crossville tile products combine functionality with aesthetics, ensuring that our customized solutions create a resort-like ambiance in any setting.

Exterior & Facades

From outdoor flooring to exterior cladding, Crossville has you covered with a wide range of porcelain products, including exterior-finish porcelain tiles for enhanced traction and porcelain tiles and panels suitable for exterior facades, feature walls, waterfalls, fountains, and more.

Owen Stone porcelain tile collection's matching interior and exterior tiles allow designs to flow seamlessly from indoors to outdoors.

Terracotta-inspired Cotto Moderno porcelain tiles bring forth the essence of the earth, transforming raw materials into art. he bohemian style and artisanal make up of each unique tile bring nature’s energy to your vision.

Crossville Cutsom Tile clads the exterior of an Austin hotel in stunning style. Read the case study.

Crossville's Shades 2.0 porcelain tiles and Laminam® I Naturali porcelain panels added the finishing touches to a stunning pool and patio with a sunken fire pit when homeowners transformed their back yard into a resort-style retreat.

Inspired by Portuguese Atlantic Dark limestone, Portugal porcelain tile is graced with natural beauty found only in the Mediterranean. This line comes in interior and exterior finishes, offering ideal solutions for installations that flow from indoors to out.

Owen Stone porcelain exterior finish tiles grace a resort's poolside in luxurious style.

Lobbies & Clubhouses

Due to its durability, longevity, and wide range of aesthetic options, tile is perfectly suited for public gathering areas in hospitality and multifamily properties. Tile’s resilience against high foot traffic makes it a practical choice for busy areas, while its extensive design possibilities will ensure it can complement many design styles. Property owners and designers can leverage tile to craft inviting and luxurious spaces that support diverse activities and maintain aesthetic appeal.

Designs flow seamlessly from indoors to outdoors with Owen Stone porcelain tile collection’s matching interior and exterior tiles.

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Our Classic Grooves porcelain tile collection is characterized by graphic movement enhanced with subtle striations and tone-on-tone optics. The swirling surface glints and glows with a soft, sophisticated sheen.

While Owen Stone porcelain tiles offer a buttery, cashmere-like feel and luxurious look, they can easily withstand high-traffic environments.

Bars & Restaurants

From intricate ceramic or glass tile bar backsplashes to porcelain floor tile for interiors and exteriors, Crossville provides surface solutions for every restaurant and bar throughout a resort. For back-of-house, our Cross-Colors Mingles with Cross-Tread® is an excellent alternative to quarry tile. Our diverse range of colors, textures, and visuals will elevate any restaurant, bar, or residential kitchen, transforming it into a five-star destination resort experience.

A mix of unique textures and shapes in our Cotto Moderno porcelain tile collection creates a wow factor in a indoor-outdoor resort bar and restaurant.

Our carbon-neutral Native Metal porcelain tile collection captures the eternal luxury of patinaed minerals and ores in a refreshingly unique porcelain and resin tile line.

Ceramic tile on the bar backsplash protects the wall from spills and splatters while adding an eye-catching focal point to the space. Our Snippet wall tile offers just a left and right mirrored iteration of bold graphic geometry and an almost endless array of patterns can be created to help you express your vision. The tone-on-tone design feels edgy and organic all at once, and the colorways match our Swatches lines to add even more options to your design.

We have your back-of-house covered with the perfect alternative to hard-to-source quarry tile. Learn more about our Cross-Colors Mingles with Cross-Tread®.

Spas & Fitness Centers

By making mindful design and material selections, any space, from a spa retreat to a backyard oasis, can become a haven of tranquility and relaxation. Foster a calm atmosphere in your home or allow hotel guests to enjoy a serene experience through our diverse range of surfaces.

Perfect for spas and other wet areas, glass tiles are not only beautiful but also durable and easy to maintain. Crossville’s Glass Blox mosaic tile collection offers pure, prismatic color in expansive Bright, Neutral, and Mosaic Blends palettes that range from gleaming jewel-tones to softly glowing neutrals to bring eye-catching light and life to walls.

Our textile-inspired Ready-to-Wear porcelain tile has style that can dress up—or down— to suit any look. Patterned with classic warp, weft, texture, and tone, the collection brings touchable, everyday appeal to floors and walls.

Durability and easy-maintennce are paramount are for resort spas and salons, but not at the expense of creating a luxurious, pampering environment. Cotto Moderno porcelain tiles in a combination of textures and shapes create just the right vibe for revitalizing and relaxing.

With subtle striations, aggregate finishes, and concrete colorations, our cement-look Gotham porcelain tile collection contributes to a modern, minimalist vibe.

Crossville tile collections are readily available to help you create a relaxing, awe-inspiring, tranquil vibe from the indoors to the outdoors. Be sure to order free samples of your favorite tile collections to bring your design visions to life!

How to Order Your Free Sample

You can quickly and easily order a sample of any Crossville tile through Crossville’s Sample Express. To order free tile samples, just set up an account here to get started. Once you have an account, ordering a tile sample is as simple as clicking a button on the product swatch you are interested in. Samples are always free!