Your Favorite Designer’s Favorite Material: Brick Floor Tile

There’s a reason your favorite designers love brick floor tile–it’s the ultimate combination of style and substance. Whether it’s a cozy cottage or industrial loft, brick adds a layer of texture that gives any space a major design moment.

Available in two sizes (standard and elegantly elongated Norman) and over 35 colors, our Glazed Thin Brick is a favored floor option for well-known designers including Sarah Sherman Samuel, Shavonda Gardner and Orlando Soria. “Brick is a really lovely material to work with because it’s so classic,” Orlando shared with us. “You can configure it in so many different ways so you can really make it work for any space.” Plus, as part of our commitment to protecting our planet, we donate 1% of all Brick sales to the National Parks Conservation Association.

Now that we’ve established that brick is a designer darling, incredibly versatile, and a product you can feel good buying, you may be wondering where exactly you can install brick floors–and the answer is, almost anywhere! This is a popular choice in kitchens, bathrooms, transitional spaces, and more. Plus, since our brick can withstand freezing and very hot climates, it can be used for exterior applications like patios and stairs as well. See some of our favorite brick floor examples below.

Kitchens Get a Textural Touch

A popular choice due to their durability in the utilitarian space, kitchen brick floors are frequently installed in eye-catching patterns to add visual interest. Orlando Soria reached for weathered White Mountains brick for his vacation rental home’s kitchen, laying it in a classic parquet pattern to embrace his Nancy Meyers inspiration from the ground up.

One of the perks of Glazed Thin Brick is the rich palette to choose from, inspired by our National Parks. Sarah Sherman Samuel fell for the forest green shade of Cascade, using it to anchor this organic modern kitchen in a timeless herringbone pattern.

Another parquet pattern, but a very different vibe. Shavonda Gardner leans into cottagecore in her brick-filled kitchen with a backsplash of Sierra Nevada and a one-of-a-kind floor that shows off the texture and color variation of Adirondack.

Brick in Bathrooms

Although brick is not recommended for shower pans because of the porous material, it is a suitable–and very popular–choice for floors throughout the rest of the bathroom. We love how Valeria Jacobs combined parquet and checkerboard patterns for her two-toned kids’ bathroom floor below.

A border is a beautiful way to frame in your patterned brick floor and create distinctive areas in a space (especially helpful in open floor plans). In her primary bathroom, Ashley Petrone of Arrows and Bow used a single row of brick as a border around her matching black herringbone floor leading directly to the inviting soaking tub.

Flip the usual design script on its head with a brighter brick floor and more neutral backsplash. The contemporary space below is pure zen with a clean straight set foundation of turquoise brick in San Gabriel.

If you don’t think brick will work in a luxe space, the bathroom below would like a word. Offering satisfying textural contrast, our elongated Norman size in creamy Big Horn creates a sophisticated foundation in a herringbone pattern.

Other Spaces with Brick Floors

Brick is also a beloved choice for floors outside the kitchen and bathroom. Since it can be used for exterior installations in any climate, it’s an easy choice for patios like the Joshua Tree House’s desert studio below. The herringbone brick floor continues throughout the rest of the house, as well–see the entire project here.

Laundry rooms are another favored choice for brick floors. Black brick in a classic offset pattern makes a striking statement in Valeria Jacobs’ laundry room below and is carried into the attached powder room for a cohesive look.

Sunrooms invite the outdoors inside, so it makes sense to use one of our oldest and most beloved materials as a sunroom floor. Warm-toned Columbia Plateau matches the natural light pouring into the space below.

Hardworking spaces require a floor that rises to the occasion, and brick delivers on all fronts. Installing mudroom brick floors in intricate patterns like double herringbone serves multiple purposes: it looks attractive, and it also adds more grout lines which creates better grip underfoot.

Finally, brick floors are a great choice for commercial spaces. Brick is durable, easy to clean, and graffiti-resistant, plus with our large volume manufacturing capabilities, we can fulfill your biggest projects indoors and out.