Handmade terracotta floor: walking over history

There are those articles for buildings, for furniture and interior design that allow anyone to come in contact with them to remain bewitched and to feel like at home: the handmade terracotta is definitely one of these items.
The charm of handmade terracotta and, more often, of a tiled floor, goes back to ancient times and brings the full force of the elements that compose it, a summary of the Aristotelian elements: the fact is nothing more than cotto, simplistically, is clay (earth) mixed with water, cooked in the fire and then left to dry in air.

The production of the beautiful elements that make up a floor, a pool, but also covers the roofs and roofs themselves (tiles, shingles, gutters) is even more valuable when the entire process is done in the traditional way: each item has in fact features distinctive, rounded corners, more or less concave surfaces, special treatments.
The workings of hand-made terracotta for the construction of a beautiful antique terracotta floor are the most diverse, and are also related to the position of the floor: it is internal or external?

For outdoor paving, for example, we recommend the use of terracotta in its raw state, without any kind of processing that enhances the rustic nature of the environments and does not require special care. Because of the difficulty of cleaning, however, the same raw terracotta floor is not recommended for interior floors, so there are in fact other types of processes: for example, we speak of sanding and glazing, which offer different possibilities according to environments and styles.

The antique handmade terracotta floors, in fact, turn out to be extremely versatile: they are among the most widely used products in green building and green architecture because of their extreme environmental compatibility, and can be inserted in both classic and rustic (such as the restructuring of old houses that are often used terracotta elements of recovery) and in the most elegant environments, as are well suited for mingling with glass and steel.
The warmth, beauty, practicality, together with the rustic elegance of terracotta is unparalleled in other building materials, and it is perhaps for these reasons that the terracotta floors are so popular in Italy and abroad, where the handmade terracotta made in Italy it is immediately associated with a very high quality product.

If you’re going then to floor your home, renovate a house or a cottage in the country, or to decorate your office so that it is at the same time welcoming and professional, think of a nice handmade terracotta floor, and ask at craftsmen who know how to create it with the shape and the color you want, according to environmentally friendly standards and according to your specific needs, then please contact a specialized layers and … enjoy your floor!