Designing country-style terraces: essential to creating your oasis of peace this summer
Would you like your terrace to become a real refuge for wellbeing? Country- -style spaces is the answer for those looking for a cozy, natural and charming outdoor area. This summer, dare to transform your terrace into a place where every little detail invites you to relax and enjoy the open air, surrounded by noble materials and a warm atmosphere. You don’t have to be an expert in decoration: with the right keys and choice of materials, such as extruded ceramic clinker, you’ll get a country-style, functional and long-lasting atmosphere, perfect for living and sharing.
The secret to country-style terraces: harmonizing colors, materials and textures
Designing charming country-style terraces is all about connecting with nature and searching for warm, enveloping atmospheres. To do so, you must be careful when choosing colors, materials and textures to create a space that offers absolute relaxation.
Outdoor porch with clinker material in the Naturales Classic collection in a Mali color
What colors combine best when designing a country-style terrace?
The colors play an essential role: warm and natural tones such as beige, brown, terracotta and olive green evoke the Earth and vegetation, to generate a serene atmosphere. You can combine them with touches of white or cream to achieve light, spaciousness and balance between warmth and freshness.
Natural color
Serene White color
Urban Beige color
Cronos Cream color
Which materials are essential for a country-style terrace?
As concerns materials, wood, stone, clay and wicker are must-haves on any country-style terrace. Solid wood furnishings with sturdy finishes and an aged look offer authenticity and character. Benches, tables and wooden chairs invite people to spend time together in a cozy setting. Clay pots and wicker decorative elements reinforce this connection to all things artisan while stone adds a country touch.
A terrace project in a private home with a cozy atmosphere
Natural textures: the warm touch that defines the country style
thenatural textures are the unifying thread for warmth on a country-style terrace. Fabrics like linen and cotton in cushions and other upholstering bring comfort and softness, while jute or sisal rugs add extra warmth under the feet. Plants and flowers arranged in wicker baskets or clay pots not only embellish the space, but also fill it with freshness to create a small oasis of vegetation.
Country-style terrace inspiration with decorative elements
Essential lighting for a country-style terrace: relaxing atmospheres
The lighting is essential to boosting the charm of a country-style terrace. Choose warm, dimmed lights: lamps, candles, strings of lights to transform summer nights into intimate, magic scenes bringing out the beauty of every little corner. Decorative details, such as antiques or handmade ceramics, offer authenticity, turning the terrace into a unique, history-filled spot.
Clinker flooring: the base that differentiates country-style terrace design
If there’s one element that defines the success of a country-style terrace, that would be the floortheclinker extruded stoneware is the most versatile and resistant choice for outdoor spaces. Thanks to the extrusion manufacturing process, this material offers highly robust pieces, with acabados antideslizantes, varied formats and reliefs that reproduce the texture of stone and natural clay. Its resistance to temperature changes, moisture and daily wear and tear make it the perfect base for any terrace with guaranteed durability and easy maintenance.
The extrusion process makes it possible to create country-style floor tiles for terraces that are highly resistant, hygienic and sustainable, with a wide variety of finishes and formats. Clinker extruded stoneware stands out due to its capacity to remain unaltered under the elements of time and intensive use, which makes it a safe, long-lasting investment. Its all-natural look with warm tones and rough textures matches a country style perfectly, evoking the Earth and nature.
Clinker terrace flooring
Inspiring collections: tradition and innovation when designing terraces
The ceramic is one of the best options not only for terraces, but also to give that country touch to places like attics, gardens and patios. At Gres Aragón, we have a variety of floor tiling collections that adapt to a country style.
The Natural collection is a tribute to the origins: our first extruded ceramic floor tile, which has remained faithful to the original clinker for 75 years. Its innate charm is boosted with robustness and reliability. naturalis not just a name: the color and effects are the result of a clay-based process.
The personality in a country style when designing outdoor spaces offers ideas like clinker tiling Antic or the legendary ceramic of Esmaltados Classic that recalls the reddish and toasted tones of the first floor tiles. On the other hand, digital printing on clinker achieves such bold effects that preserve the natural look and boost the color of the clay like in the collection Jasper.
Inspiration for different projects with clinker
Get inspiration from Gres Aragón and transform your terrace into a peaceful space
Country style is much more than just a trend: it’s a way of understanding outdoor areas as places to meet, relax and connect with nature. If you’d like to find out about all the possibilities and get inspiration for your next project, download our catalog. At Gres Aragón, we’ve been betting on innovation and tradition in ceramic floor tiles for decades. Contact our team of experts and transform your terrace into the coziest summer refuge.