Hi everyone! I can’t believe how long it has taken me to share our DIY faux brick flooring on the blog. I’m really not happy about that. As many of you know, we gave our downstairs powder/laundry room a makeover this past April and I have to admit that doing laundry hasn’t been such a chore anymore. It’s amazing how a pretty space can really lift your spirit! As soon as we went to look at the house for the first time I instantly could see pretty brick flooring in this space. Brick floors are so charming and in keeping with colonial homes. We priced them out and I got pretty discouraged. The price for just this small little space was going to be in the upward of $1000 before it was all said and done. I knew that would be a stretch for us so I decided to check out what else was out there. After looking at so many beautiful options my heart still drifted back to brick. I bucked up and decided no, I was not going to give up on my dream floors. After all, if God doesn’t have other plans in mind we are in this home for the long haul. After weeks of searching and going down the rabbit hole that is Pinterest too many times, I stumbled across the craziest, prettiest, most affordable option ever!
It’s called Rustico glazed porcelain floor tile. I’ve only found it in two places. Home Depot and as of late Amazon. I came across it by accident one day while looking for another item at Home Depot. The price is a third of real brick. Everyone that has seen our bathroom in person has thought that it was real brick! The color and texture looks and feels like the real thing. Best part, it installs just like basic floor tile.
Here’s a before picture of the space before we moved in- Yikes!
Here’s the room now-
DIY Faux Brick Flooring
Like I said before, it’s just a basic porcelain tile. We installed the floor in just an evening and I went back two days later and did the grout. Tile is always a great DIY project to try. If you’ve never done it before I would recommend watching a couple how-to videos or try your hand at back splash tile first. You can install the tile in whatever direction you choose. Herringbone is a gorgeous pattern. It will use much more tile though, FYI.
Look at that gorgeous texture and color! We went with a grout color that was in between white and gray. I wanted a natural grout color that you would see on an old brick building. They turned out petty perfect in my opinion.
It’s been a few months now and I love them just as much today as the day we installed them! They only ran us a couple hundred dollars unlike real brick at a thousand. It was a huge budget savor and who can tell the difference? I love coming across more affordable options that look like the real thing. If you’ve been dreaming of brick floors, don’t fret. I’ve even mentioned installing this tile in our foyer down the road. It’s so charming I keep looking for places to put it, ha!
I hope you all have a great weekend. Fall weather has finally hit Ga so I’m going to be getting outside with the family a little and working on the wrap up of our kitchen reno. If you follow my Instagram stories you saw the beautiful marble tile that came in. I can’t wait to get it installed!
Michele (Finch Rest) says
WOW!!! It looks absolutely amazing!
Very very well done!
sincerelymariedesigns says
Thank you so much, Michele! It’s become one of my favorite spaces in our home.
Your flooring is beautiful and timeless. I love it and was thinking about using it after I saw yours. Do you think it would work well in a large kitchen, laundry room, breakfast room area? Is it easy to clean especially the grout?
Crikey, the flooring looks fantastic! Thank you for sharing how you made it happen. Cheers, Ardith
I am loving the brick! Oh my it is just gorgeous, so glad you spent the money That is timeless and in ten years it will be just as pretty.
Thank you so much, Christine! I couldn’t agree more. It was well worth the money. 🙂
The room is beautiful and the floor just perpect!
Ahh thank you so much, Marie!
Oh wow, your floors, bathroom and laudry room look amazing. Really love the floors, and was wondering how that brick would do outdoors
on a porch? What a lovely and charming look……Great job, and thanks for sharing…..
Blessings,
Nellie
“Wow” is the word that popped into my mind as I looked at these pictures. You would think that those floors had been there for decades! I can’t believe those are floor tiles. Thank you so much for sharing this with us!
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This floor looks amazing, I always think doing the floor makes such a difference to a room & it doesn’t have to cost the earth. Your finished room looks amazing & I love it!
Holly from The Art of Being Holly xo
Gorgeous!!
Your brick tile project turned out Beautiful And Charming! I was so impressed with it and now I’m doing our home office in the same brick tile from HD. Thank You for sharing and also for helping us save money.
How did you fix the lip that the brick creates at the door? Or was it not a problem? I am thinking of doing this in our entryway.
It depends on the house I think. When we installed the tile it wasn’t any higher than the hardwoods in the other room. We just put down the hardwood floor transition piece that was already there before. I guess that’s not super helpful. Depending on what flooring it’s up against will depend on what you use.
I just picked this exact tile to do a couple walls in our home! I love how it looks. Can you tell me what color grout you used? I, too, was wanting to go with a cream/grey color and this looks PERFECT! How did you get it to look just slightly white-washed? Excellent job!
Thank you so much, Tawny! We went with a grout color called Frost. Fast forward a year and a half later and I kinda wish I had gone with a grout that was a shade darker. This bathroom gets a lot of traffic and the grout has been a little difficult to keep it clean. I do love the color of it though. It appears whitewashed in places because the tile has dips that the grout naturally sinks into when you grout. Depending on how you clean the tile after grouting will depend on how white washed it looks. Hope that makes sense. 🙂
Thank you so much!!! Ours will be on the wall so I don’t think the grout would get as dirty as it would on the floor. I appreciate your response 🙂 Have a great day!
Your floors are beautiful! We are considering the same tile for our mudroom. Did you find that the boxes had a lot of variation in the tile? Also, do you mind sharing what brand grout you used? Thank you!
Hello! I’m super late here but this is exactly what I want in my kitchen. I’ve seen other post where they used a sanded grout. Is that what you used? Maybe I missed it in the post.
Thanks so much!
How big was the grout joint? It looks amazing!
Thank you so much Kathy! We used a 1/2 inch grout spacer.
Just used these bricks from HD on clearance and it looks amazing! Thanks so much for this post or else I wouldn’t have found them!!
This is so beautiful!!! I’m thinking of doing something similar in our three season room. How well have these held up over time? That’s my fear!
Well done! Great post 🙂
Brooke
This is EXACTLY what I was looking for! Tile that looks like brick. Just want to be sure, your Amazon link is for “MS International Capella Red Brick Tile” but you’re Home Depot link is for “MSI Rustico Brick Porcelain Floor and Wall Tile.” Which color did you use? Thanks so much, I LOVE the way yours looks!
Thank you Betsy! We used the red. I linked both at the time because Home Depot was out of the color we used online but it now looks like Amazon is as well. Hopefully you can find it in store at HD. It’s such a great tile, super durable too!
Thank you so much! They do have it at Home Depot, but for order only. They have the Rustico color in store, but can’t order it. The pictures of the tile on the Home Depot website don’t have the beautiful color variation that yours do. Did you find you had to open several boxes to get the color variation or were they pretty well mixed? I so appreciate you taking the time 🙂
Ooh, sorry, one more question. Did you tile OVER the existing linoleum? or did you scrape it up to tile? Thanks again!
I used this product, ordered from HD. Every single one of the boxes contained an excellent mix
BTW. I did a herringbone pattern, just rotated 90’ at the start. No more waste than any other pattern
How do you clean it?
Hi Kim! It’s a porcelain tile so any cleaner that is safe for tile floors would work fine. I personally use a Shark steam mop.
Hi! Love your floors. I have this tile I’m laying as well. What brand of grout did you use? Wondering which shade to do as well and might go a shade darker like you suggested.
Do you happen to know what grout color and brand you used ?
This floor looks great! Can you tell me the Brand and name of the tile you guys used?
What is the color of the brick?
We went with the red brick.
What are your thoughts on using this brick tile in a master bedroom? I love that the look is so classic! Thanks so much!
We just used the same tile. Did you all have a rough time with grout haze??? Or did you leave some to make it look old? Please help! I do love the tile.