Ceramic tiles, chosen in daylight.

Floor tiles at Carré Parfait in Zouk Mosbeh are porcelain by default. The dense body absorbs under 0.5 % water and suits living rooms, kitchens, bathrooms and terraces alike, while ceramic suits bedrooms and light-traffic rooms. Porcelain floor tiles start from $8 per square metre and ceramic from $5, US dollars as of August 2026. Prices are tiles only.

Body, not pattern, makes a floor tile. Porcelain is pressed dense and fired at around 1,200 °C. The body then absorbs less than 0.5 % water, the threshold ISO 13006 and EN 14411 use for the class. The same density makes it harder and more abrasion resistant than other ceramic tiles, which is what a floor asks of it.

Floors need that hardness, because a floor has to resist impacts where a wall does not. Choose by traffic. Wear is graded from zero to five under ISO 10545-7 and ASTM C1027, so a collection is matched to the room's use. The hall and the kitchen sit at the hard end of that range, a bedroom lower down.

Format is the second decision, and 60 × 60 and 60 × 120 cm are common porcelain floor formats. Porcelain slabs in formats such as 120 × 260 and 160 × 320 cm give a large room a few wide joints instead of a grid. Rectified edges allow narrow joints on either. Finish is the third: matt for most floors, slip-rated surfaces for bathrooms and terraces.

Floor tiles at Carré Parfait come from Spanish and Italian factories and stand laid in daylight at the 4,000 m² showroom on the Zouk Highway. One visit compares them underfoot. Starting prices by room sit on the tile prices page. Porcelain floor tiles start from $8 per square metre and ceramic from $5, US dollars as of August 2026.

Wall tiles at Carré Parfait are ceramic. Ceramic wall tiles are lighter and thinner than floor tiles, glazed in colours and reliefs a floor does not need. The band starts from $5 per square metre in Zouk Mosbeh, US dollars as of August 2026. Porcelain slabs from $24 cover showers and kitchen splashbacks where a jointless surface is wanted.

"Thinner tiles can be used on walls than on floors", as the Wikipedia entry on tiles puts it. That thinness is the economy. Less clay and a lighter box mean a lower price per square metre, and the glazed face carries colour and relief. Ceramic wall tiles at Carré Parfait start from $5 per square metre, US dollars as of August 2026.

The rule runs one way: a porcelain floor tile can be fixed to a wall. A ceramic wall tile cannot be laid on a floor, because a wall tile is not made to take foot traffic and impacts. Bathrooms and kitchens use this asymmetry. One porcelain collection can run from the floor up the shower wall, while a decorative ceramic covers the dry walls.

A porcelain slab is the answer where a wall should read as one surface. Grespania publishes slab formats including 160 × 320 cm in thicknesses from 3.5 mm to 20 mm, listed for wall, floor, countertop and outdoor use. One piece, no joint. A slab faces a shower wall or a kitchen splashback that way. Slabs start from $24 per square metre at Carré Parfait, an official Grespania dealer, US dollars as of August 2026.

Wall tiles are displayed in daylight at the Zouk Mosbeh showroom, beside the floor tiles and sanitaryware they will share a room with. One designer prices both surfaces.

Bathroom tiles at Carré Parfait come paired. A porcelain floor meets ceramic or porcelain walls, chosen together at the Zouk Mosbeh showroom beside the basins and WCs they will share. Porcelain absorbs under 0.5 % water, which suits the wet floor, and walls take ceramic from $5 per square metre or one porcelain slab from $24.

A bathroom is two surfaces with different jobs. The floor stays wet and carries traffic, so the floor tile is porcelain: under 0.5 % water absorption and a hard, abrasion-resistant body. The walls stay drier and carry nothing. So they take ceramic wall tiles at the $5 band or, for the shower wall, a single porcelain slab from $24 per square metre.

Starting prices by surface, with a worked 6 m² example, sit on the tile prices page under "How much do bathroom tiles cost in Lebanon?". Read that first, then choose.

The tile is half the bathroom, so Carré Parfait, an authorised VitrA dealer, displays bathroom tiles beside VitrA sanitaryware and its own made-to-measure vanity units. Tiles and fittings become one scheme. The sanitaryware range is on the sanitaryware page. Washbasins made at Carré Parfait's own factory sites in Zouk Mosbeh and Safra are on the custom basins page.

Directly from Castellón — the province where about 94% of Spain's ceramic tiles are made, per ASCER, the Spanish tile manufacturers' association. Carré Parfait maintains its own office there, Carré Parfait Spain, which selects collections at the factories and manages export; the company ranks among the top five Lebanese importers of Spanish tiles. The current Spanish roster carries three houses — Drevex, Azulejos Benadresa and Grespania, with Carré Parfait an official dealer for all three — alongside Italian factories that round out the range.

The Castellón relationship runs in both directions. Carré Parfait does not only import from Spain — it exports its own manufactured ceramic basins TO Spain, supplying Drevex in Castellón. The trade flows both ways, which is a quality argument no catalogue can make.

Buying from a direct importer matters in practice: fresher collections, real stock instead of catalogue promises, and a price that skips the middle layer.

As of August 2026, ceramic tiles start from $5 per m², porcelain from $8 per m², and large-format slabs from $24 per m² — in US dollars, the way Lebanon's market prices. What moves the figure above each starting point is format and size, porcelain versus ceramic body, Spanish or Italian origin, rectified edges, quantity, and the collection's design tier — the full picture is on tile prices in Lebanon. Direct import from Spain and Italy — with no local middle layer — keeps Carré Parfait's pricing competitive at every tier, and wholesale rates apply to project quantities.

For a same-day estimate, send your room dimensions and the look you want over WhatsApp, or bring a floor plan to the showroom — a designer on the floor will price options with you in one sitting.

Porcelain is denser and absorbs almost no water, which makes it the default for floors, wet areas, high-traffic rooms and anything outdoors. Ceramic is lighter, easier to cut and gentler on the budget, which keeps it the smart choice for interior walls and low-traffic surfaces. Most homes end up using both — porcelain underfoot, ceramic on the walls — and the right split depends on the room, not the trend.

Updated September 2026