To renovate your home or your office is always a delicate moment, which involves emotions as well as your wallet.
Often a restructuring stems from a desire to change, to “put things right”, and in many cases, this feeling is radical enough to revolutionize a house. Always, during a renovation, the aim is to give something of your own to environments, expressing ourselves, and usually it is done with furniture and different types of materials.
One of the noble materials that is gaining increasing relevance in the context of restructuring is the handmade terracotta: despite being made of materials called “poor” (we’re still talking about clay, water and fire, after all), terracotta bricks, terracotta tiles, glazed cotto tiles decorated with various machining operations still have considerable appeal, being definitely timeless.
Terracotta bricks are used in many ways, especially in the floor: they are decidedly rustic, warm and cozy when applied in old farmhouses and paired with classic wooden furniture, while they are interesting, new, elegant if matched with materials such as steel and glass, as happens in many professional Studios.
Like the terracotta tiles also cotto bricks have considerable appeal and are used in different environments, even as covers of concrete columns and walls in sight.
The handmade terracotta, which by its nature has elements with different characteristics from each other, has colors that can also vary greatly: we pass by all shades of yellow to peach, to pink, to red , ending with particular colors such as white and black, very elegant.
In order to ensure proper maintenance of the terracotta elements that you will use for the renovation of your house, you should remember that there are simple rules for maintenance that will make them virtually infinite: as an example a handmade terracotta floor maintenance is of course subject to the use of the same floor, to the number of people who usually use it, to the possible presence of animals.
Wash and rinse surfaces, remove the wax layer present from the moment of posing, apply an anti-saltpetre and finally put the wax using impregnating products that penetrate the cotto without forming surface films are the next moves that will ensure you to have excellent terracotta bricks.