ᐅ Wood-look patio slabs next to an indoor room with hardwood flooring?

Hello everyone,

Has anyone here coincidentally chosen ceramic terrace tiles with a wood look while also having one of the adjacent rooms—such as the living room—floored with parquet?
We would like the terrace to have a wood appearance but face the exact situation where the living room has parquet flooring that directly borders the terrace.
We are unsure how this will look, since the color tone will obviously not be identical, and the installation direction will also differ.
The two areas are only separated by a 30cm (12 inch) wide metal grate.
Maybe someone has some experience to share.

Best regards

Inside, we have oak parquet flooring, and outside, larch wood, which was initially almost orange but has gradually developed the desired silver-gray tone. The colors and textures are quite different; outdoors, there are gaps between the boards, and the installation direction is rotated by 90 degrees. It looks very good.

The key seems to be avoiding the attempt to make everything appear as a uniform surface. That only works with identical materials and identical installation. Wood is not suitable for that.

BoPaDi24 schrieb:

Has anyone here by chance chosen ceramic tiles with a wood-look finish for their terrace and at the same time installed hardwood flooring—like parquet—in an adjacent room, for example the living room?

Sort of. Outside we have a wooden terrace (Tatajuba) and inside oak parquet. Before that, inside the house is smoked oak with an IPE terrace, and before that, inside the house is dark brown parquet (I can’t recall the exact name), and outside is thermo ash.

BoPaDi24 schrieb:

We are unsure how this will look, since obviously the shades won’t be exactly the same.

What’s the problem?

I would definitely do it. Especially if the colors are NOT identical.

A 30cm (12 inch) wide grate in front of the patio door would rather cause visual discomfort for me!

There are also much (!) narrower options available with a linear bar design...

Thank you all – so we will probably go ahead and deliberately rotate the installation direction by 90 degrees. In our case, the exterior will be ceramic anyway, and real wood will be used inside.

Gerddieter schrieb:

A 30cm (12 inches) wide grate in front of the patio door would actually cause me some visual headaches!

There are much (!) narrower ones available in a linear bar design...

Unfortunately, this is a requirement from the house provider. Our landscaping contractor has already suggested an alternative, but if we were to implement it without a grate, we would lose the warranty. As far as I know, this is the case with every prefabricated house.

By the way, I used the word “grate” as a general term. It won’t be a mesh grate, but rather one designed to look as nice as possible and probably color-coated as well.

BoPaDi24 schrieb:


Unfortunately, this is a requirement from the house provider. Our landscaping contractor also suggested an alternative, but if we implement it without a grate, we would lose the warranty. As far as I know, that’s the case with every prefab house.

No, it would be easy for the general contractor – you have the same warranty with or without the drainage channel. But of course, if water does get inside, then your builder has an excuse.

You’re not supposed to completely omit the channel, but 30cm (12 inches) sounds like a 200m² (2,150 sq ft) rooftop terrace on a commercial office building. For a single-family home, something between 11 and 17cm (4.3 and 6.7 inches) is more typical.