The surfaces that set the room.
Tiles & flooring / Navan showroom
The surfaces
that set the room.
The floor is the largest surface in the room and usually the last thing chosen. Scroll, and watch one hallway try four of them.
On the sample table
Six surfaces you can pick up.
Six of what is on the table in Navan. Take any of them home with you — a floor decided under a showroom light is a floor decided under the wrong light.
Irish bog oak
Bog oak
Vanity · panelling
Lifted from bog after thousands of years under it. Air-dried eighteen months, then hardwax oil.
Carrara, Tuscany
Statuario marble
Vanity tops · wet walls
Calacatta family. 30mm slab. Book-matched on request.
European oak · kiln-dried
Fluted oak
Vanity fronts · panelling
8mm-pitch routed flutes. Stained to four standard tones.
Unlacquered
Brushed brass
Taps · towel rails · trim
Left unlacquered, so it takes a living patina over the first year. Lacquered if you would rather it stayed bright.
Rolled cast glass
Reeded smoked glass
Shower screens · niches
4mm rolled cast glass. Smoke-tinted, on a low-iron substrate.
Hand-pressed
Glazed terracotta
Floor tile · feature wall
220×220mm, hand-pressed. Tonal variation between tiles is the point, not a fault.
Samples go home free, and come back when you have decided.
What we supply
Four families. Then the room decides.
Semi-solid, laminate, porcelain and large-format. The photographs show the format — the plank, the herringbone, the slab — because format is what you pick first. What it is made of follows from the room it has to survive.
Semi-solid wood
Laminate
Porcelain
Large-format
Your floor, laid first
Hold the samples against each other.
Every surface on this page is on the showroom floor. Bring a photo of the room and we will lay it out on screen before you choose.
Why we set it out first
Tile is decided at floor level.
A tile is a colour on a sample board and geometry on a floor. Where the pattern starts decides where it ends: whether the last row at the door is a full tile or a 30mm splinter, whether the herringbone points at the window or across it, whether a grout line lands in the middle of the shower tray or along its edge.
So the floor is drawn in the same 3D model as the units, and then you stand on it in the headset at full size, coming in through the door you will actually come in through. Grout colour, the direction of the plank, the skirting height against it, the fall to the drain in a wet room: settled while it is still a drawing, and free to change.
- 1:1
- Scale in the headset
- 1
- Set-out drawing
- 1
- Batch, ordered together
How a CKB floor happens
Four steps. The order matters.
Samples go home
Pick up whatever you are drawn to and take it home. Tile changes between a showroom light and a north-facing room at four o'clock in January, and only one of those is the room you live in.
Set out in 3D
We draw the floor with the units: the start line, the direction, the grout colour, and where the cuts land at the door and under the kickboards. Quantity comes off that drawing, cuts and wastage included.
Walk it in VR
Headset on in Navan and stand on it at full size. Change the pattern, the tone or the grout, then look again — it costs nothing until it is ordered.
Laid by our tilers
Supplied, and if you want it, laid by our own tilers off the same set-out you walked on. Levels, movement joints and the fall to the drain come with it.
Tile partners
Where the tile comes from.
APE Grupo are a Spanish ceramic house, and their Xlining slabs are the large format we reach for when a floor or a wet wall wants as few joints in it as possible. Whoever it comes from, the whole floor is ordered in one batch — shade moves between them.
Questions
The things people ask before they order.
Can I buy tiles without buying a kitchen or bathroom?
Yes. The tile and flooring side stands on its own. Come in with your room sizes and you can take samples away the same day.
How much should I order?
Bring the room dimensions and we will work it out with you, cuts and wastage included. Order the whole floor in one go: batches vary in shade, and a second batch rarely matches the first.
Visit the showroom
Bring the room's sizes. Leave with the samples.
The tile and flooring side stands on its own — you do not have to be buying a kitchen or a bathroom with it. Come in with the room dimensions and we will work the quantity out with you, cuts and wastage included, and the samples go home the same day.
- Where
- Unit 5, Mullaghboy Industrial Estate, Navan, Co. Meath
- Hours
- Mon–Fri 09:30–17:30 / Sat 09:00–16:00 / Sun closed
- Call
- 046 907 9944
- kitchens@ckbdesign.ie
