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From this point of view, the wall covering plays a fundamental role, not only in aesthetic terms but also with regard to its technical characteristics.
Walls are no longer mere dividers but become design features thanks to porcelain stoneware. Thanks to this solution’s versatility, natural materials like stone, marble, wood and concrete come to life on high-impact surfaces with an effective combination of aesthetic appeal and functional performance.
Ragno, which has always been renowned for its visual sophistication and innovation, offers solutions that meet all stylistic requirements, from contemporary minimalism to classical beauty. Its range provides a wealth of ideas and designs that tell stories, evoke impressions and adapt elegantly to daily life.
Why porcelain stoneware is the ideal material for the living room
Choosing porcelain stoneware for your living room means decorating this space with a durable, versatile material capable of reflecting your own individual style. Thanks to its ability to adapt to any aesthetic, this solution combines visual impact with functional values and defines the living room’s character with immaculate elegance.
In fact porcelain stoneware, well known for its amazing resistance to impacts, scratches and wear, is perfect for heavily-used interiors: able to retain its beauty intact even after years in service, this material is immune to damp and sharp changes in temperature.
Another major benefit of porcelain stoneware is how easy and convenient it is to care for. Since its surfaces don’t absorb liquids and stains, they can easily be cleaned with normal household cleaners, a practical benefit that natural materials like stone or wood can certainly not provide.
In other words, porcelain stoneware is durable and hygienic, ideal for families with children or pets who still want their interior design to be sophisticated and attractive.
Now let’s take a look at some practical ideas and applications for tiling the living area.
Ideas for covering the internal walls of the living room
The choice of covering for the internal walls of the living room may revolutionise its appearance and define its mood and style.
For this purpose, we recommend white-body wall tiles, more suitable because of their slim thickness. What’s more, this material may also have decorations that create a wallpaper effect. Every wall becomes a canvas for you to paint on: every texture, color or finish tells a story, generating moods that dialogue with the furnishings and lighting.
Here are some ideas for inspirations for creating the perfect living room.
Wallpaper-effect texture: a pattern for every taste
Imagine walls that are not just backgrounds but actually play a key role in a stylish design scheme with a strong personality: wallpaper-effect textures cast this magic spell, transforming every room into a unique visual story.
The Ragno Papers collection, with its large-size 60×180 cm tiles, is inspired by the lightness of wallpaper, which it reinterprets in practical, durable materials, ideal for anyone seeking solutions that are both highly attractive and very convenient.
The five patterns available are designed to suit every wall, with an assortment of delicate yet forceful colors – Bianco, Beige, Verde and Blu – and a three-dimensional structure called Shanghai, to delight anyone who loves textures that play creatively with light and shadows.
Stone effect: an ever-popular classic
Stone-effect porcelain stoneware is a timeless solution for anyone wishing to design an interior with a natural, relaxing appeal. Its blend of tactile texture and authenticity is ideal for rustic style living rooms, where it evokes the warmth of natural materials, or for industrial design schemes, where bare surfaces and the details typical of urban lofts reign supreme.
One very striking example is slate-effect porcelain stoneware, able to add depth and personality with its dark surfaces that generate a sophisticated contrast with light-colored or natural wood furnishings.
This mood is embodied to perfection by the Ragno Stoneplay collection, which captures and conveys the spirit of natural stone in a series of irresistible textures. Its range of distinctive patterns fit attractively into both rustic and contemporary contexts.
With their indoor-outdoor continuity, these surfaces transform the living room into a place where nature meets design, ideal for creating a tasteful interior with a strong personality.
Marble effect: luminous and elegant
For lovers of refined, striking interiors, marble-effect porcelain stoneware is the perfect choice. Its distinctive veining and glossy or satiny surfaces give the living room a luxurious, luminous gleam and it’s equally suitable for both modern and more classical design schemes.
This solution’s color spectrum ranges from classical shades like white and grey, ideal for refined, minimalist interiors, to warmer hues like beige, which add a cosier, more traditional touch.
In its Incanto collection, Ragno reinvents the classical beauty of marble in contemporary style, transforming its surface into a seductive visual experience, with mellifluous veining and luminous textures.
Ideal for modern living rooms and design schemes that pursue the ongoing dialogue between tradition and innovation, it features inspirations ranging from the most iconic varieties of marble to contemporary interpretations offering infinite customisation options for an exclusive living room with a timeless appeal.
Concrete effect: minimalism and industrial chic
With the concrete effect, the living room becomes a homage to urban design. Its surfaces evoke this material’s solidity and simplicity, reinterpreting it with elegance and modernity. Neutral shades like anthracite grey and beige combine with gleaming details to create walls brimming with personality that tell stories of contemporary life.
When it comes to the choice of color, cool shades like anthracite grey will give the interior a modern character, while paler tones make rooms look lighter, airier and larger.
The Ragno Stratford collection interprets concrete’s solidity with sophisticated colors and textures to give depth to the living room’s walls. Perfect for design schemes with a strong urban personality concrete-effect porcelain stoneware transforms every hint of roughness into character.
Wood-effect textures: warm and welcoming
If your aim is to create a welcoming living room, wood-effect porcelain stoneware is the right choice. Perfect for anyone wishing to design a living room with a pristine natural beauty, with its amazing ability to accurately replicate the veining and shade variations of real wood this material gives warmth and intimacy to interiors while providing all the typical convenience of porcelain stoneware.
From bleached oak, which teams up to perfection with the Scandinavian style, to darker shades like walnut or rustic brown, which evoke traditional or country moods, wood-effect porcelain stoneware offers a vast range of possible styles and solutions.
Ragno wood-effect collection Boheme has tactile patterning rich in details typical of oak planks, reinterpreting this timber in surfaces with an intimate, natural personality. The soft hues of wood make the interior appear larger and imbue the living room with a mood of calm and tranquillity, together with the timeless beauty that only nature can bestow.
How to choose the perfect wall covering for your living room
Choosing the ideal wall covering for your living room is fundamental in achieving a tasteful interior design scheme. From the wallpaper look to natural effects, Ragno offers perfect solutions for bringing style to every type of room, thanks to its materials’ aesthetic versatility and the different sizes available depending on needs.
Matching the porcelain stoneware to the furnishing style
The wall covering must dialogue with the furnishing to create an attractive, consistent design scheme. For a modern, minimalist living room, the glossy concrete or marble effect is the ideal choice: the smooth, uniform surfaces, in neutral shades like white, pale grey or beige, combine superbly with furniture with simple lines and in subdued colors.
For an industrial style living room, on the other hand, a stone or concrete-effect wall covering with rough textures and dark shades emphasises the urban, glamorous ambience. When it comes to style, the wallpaper effect is also particularly suitable for this purpose, with natural wood or metal details to complete the overall effect and highlight the combination of these two apparently contrasting materials.
Make the most of space with porcelain stoneware
Naturally, the room’s size and characteristics will affect the choice of wall covering. In small living rooms, large sizes and pale colors like white or beige are ideal for making the interior look larger, since these coverings create an effect of continuity that expands the space and enhances the light available. This impression is emphasised by glossy or satiny surfaces like those with the marble effect, which reflect the natural daylight and further improve the lighting of small spaces.
On the other hand, in larger living rooms you can be daring with smaller sizes, stronger textures and dark shades. These characteristics will help to create a more intimate, cosier atmosphere and make the interior inviting and well defined. A highlighted wall covered with stone or concrete-effect stoneware can become a central feature that adds aesthetic value to the whole living room without generating visual overload.
Personalise your living room with the Ragno collections
Every living room tells a story, balancing styles, functional features and personalities. With the Ragno solutions, every detail becomes an opportunity for creating interiors that are not just attractive to look at but also comfortable and individual.