Discover the refined elegance of Karndean Heritage Collection Clifton CLIF-02, a beautifully understated interpretation of the timeless Victorian star-and-square tile pattern that brings sophisticated contemporary styling to your interior spaces. This exquisite design features the iconic Clifton star motif created through precisely arranged square and triangular tiles in a soft two-colour palette of warm Dove Grey and crisp Lace white. The result is a floor that honours Victorian architectural heritage while embracing modern minimalist aesthetics, making it perfect for homeowners who appreciate classic geometric patterns but desire the calm, understated elegance that defines contemporary design.
*Special order product: This product is made to order and can take 2-4 weeks to be dispatched.
Each pre-assembled 229mm x 229mm panel showcases the mesmerising Clifton star pattern, where geometric precision creates an optical illusion of dimensional depth and rhythmic movement across your floor. The gentle Dove Grey introduces warmth and sophistication without the high-contrast drama of traditional black and white designs, while crisp Lace white provides brightness and definition that keeps the pattern feeling fresh and airy. This two-colour combination offers exceptional versatility – it works beautifully in Scandinavian-inspired interiors, contemporary country homes, coastal schemes, modern bathrooms, and minimalist kitchens. The soft tonal palette creates architectural interest while maintaining the calm, uncluttered aesthetic essential to modern living.
Key Features:
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Authentic Victorian Star Pattern – Iconic Clifton design featuring the timeless star-and-square effect created through precise geometric arrangement
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Sophisticated Grey and White Palette – Warm Dove Grey paired with crisp Lace white creates understated contemporary elegance perfect for modern interiors
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Pre-Assembled Mosaic Panels – 229mm x 229mm panels arrive ready to install, delivering authentic Victorian tile appearance without complex piece-by-piece laying
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100% Waterproof Construction – Ideal for entrance halls, kitchens, bathrooms, utility rooms, and conservatories where moisture resistance is essential
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Enhanced Surface Protection – K-Guard+ with PU coating provides hygienic, easily maintained surface that resists everyday wear, spills, and scuffs
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Lifetime Residential Warranty – Backed by Karndean's confidence in exceptional quality, with 15-year commercial warranty for demanding high-traffic applications
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Premium 0.55mm Wear Layer – Outstanding durability with embossed texture that authentically replicates the tactile feel of traditional ceramic tiles
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Micro-Bevelled Edges – Subtle edge detail enhances definition between geometric shapes for realistic dimensional tile appearance
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2.5mm Total Thickness – Robust construction ideal for renovation projects over existing hard floors without significantly raising floor height
Ideal For:
Clifton CLIF-02 excels at creating serene, sophisticated interiors where understated elegance takes precedence over bold statements. This design shines in modern entrance halls seeking to make a welcoming yet refined first impression, contemporary kitchens where the soft grey and white tones complement both light and dark cabinetry, and spacious bathrooms where the geometric pattern adds visual interest without disrupting the calm, spa-like atmosphere. The star motif provides natural focal point styling that anchors interior schemes while the gentle colour palette ensures the floor enhances rather than dominates your space.
In residential applications, consider Clifton CLIF-02 for dining rooms where the sophisticated pattern adds architectural elegance without feeling formal or stuffy, conservatories where the light palette maintains brightness while adding pattern interest, and hallways where the repeating geometric design creates pleasing visual flow that draws the eye through your home. The pattern's optical depth makes it particularly effective in both large open spaces where it creates impact across expansive floor areas, and smaller rooms where the light palette prevents the space from feeling cramped.
For commercial environments, Clifton CLIF-02 delivers sophisticated styling suited to boutique hotels, particularly in guest bathrooms, corridor areas, and breakfast rooms where calm elegance matters. Contemporary office reception areas benefit from the professional yet welcoming aesthetic that creates positive first impressions, while upscale hair and beauty salons, wellness centers, and spa facilities find the soft grey and white palette perfectly aligned with their brand positioning. Artisan coffee shops, contemporary restaurants, and lifestyle retail stores appreciate how the geometric floor adds architectural interest without competing with merchandise or interior styling.
Technical Excellence:
The Clifton CLIF-02 showcases Karndean's advanced luxury vinyl tile technology, delivering exceptional realism and durability through multiple precision-engineered layers. At the foundation lies a high-definition photographic layer that captures every subtle nuance of authentic Victorian ceramic tiles – from the warm, inviting tone of the Dove Grey that prevents the design from feeling cold or clinical, to the clean brightness of the Lace white that maintains the pattern's clarity and definition. This photographic layer undergoes meticulous colour calibration to ensure the grey reads as a sophisticated warm tone rather than a flat neutral.
Protecting this visual layer is a premium 0.55mm wear layer featuring an embossed texture that replicates not just the appearance but the authentic tactile experience of traditional tiles. This substantial wear layer ensures your floor maintains its pristine appearance even in high-traffic family areas, resisting the scratching, scuffing, and wear patterns that can compromise lesser quality flooring products. The texture provides genuine depth – run your hand across Clifton and you'll feel the subtle surface variations that make the floor convincingly realistic rather than flat and artificial.
The innovative K-Guard+ surface treatment with polyurethane coating provides superior protection against modern family life and commercial traffic. Muddy paw prints, spilled coffee, dropped makeup, children's art supplies, and dragged furniture are all handled with ease. This enhanced surface protection creates a hygienic barrier that prevents moisture penetration and bacterial growth, making it ideal for bathrooms and kitchens where cleanliness is paramount. Spills sit on the surface rather than penetrating, allowing quick cleanup that prevents staining and keeps the floor looking immaculate with minimal effort.
Beneath the wear layer, precision-engineered stability and backing layers ensure dimensional stability across varying environmental conditions. The floor resists expansion and contraction that can cause gaps or buckling, maintaining flawless appearance even when installed over underfloor heating systems operating up to 27°C. The complete 2.5mm construction achieves optimal balance between durability and practicality, being robust enough for demanding environments yet thin enough for renovation projects where floor height transitions must be carefully managed. With an R10 slip resistance rating, Clifton provides confident footing even when wet, essential for family bathrooms and busy kitchen zones.
Installation & Maintenance:
Clifton CLIF-02 requires professional glue-down installation using Karndean's specified adhesive systems, ensuring permanent secure fixing that prevents movement and maintains perfect pattern alignment. This installation method is crucial for the Clifton pattern, as the intricate star motif requires precise panel alignment to create the seamless geometric flow that makes this design so visually compelling. Professional installers appreciate the pre-assembled 229mm x 229mm panel format, which dramatically reduces installation time compared to piece-by-piece mosaic laying while ensuring perfect geometric accuracy that would be extremely challenging to achieve with individual tiles.
The glue-down method makes Clifton fully compatible with underfloor heating systems up to 27°C, allowing you to enjoy the visual elegance of traditional tiles with the comfort of warm floors underfoot. This combination proves particularly popular in entrance halls and bathrooms, where the period-inspired styling feels authentically luxurious when paired with gentle radiant warmth that takes the chill off cold mornings. The permanent installation also makes Clifton ideal for renovation projects, as it can be installed over most existing hard substrates including concrete, ceramic tiles, and existing vinyl flooring, provided surfaces are properly prepared and leveled.
One of Clifton's greatest practical advantages over traditional ceramic tiles is the complete elimination of grouting, sealing, and ongoing maintenance treatments. Your floor arrives with its protective K-Guard+ surface fully applied and ready for immediate use – no additional sealants or treatments required. Daily maintenance consists simply of sweeping or vacuuming to remove loose dirt, with occasional damp mopping using Karndean Clean solution to maintain the floor's pristine appearance. The seamless panel surface prevents moisture penetration and won't harbour bacteria, allergens, or mould, making it an excellent choice for allergy sufferers and households with young children or elderly residents concerned about hygiene.
Should any panel sustain damage over the years – whether from dropped objects, furniture movement, or simply extended wear in high-traffic areas – Karndean's individual panel format allows surgical replacement of affected sections without disturbing surrounding areas. This replaceability extends your floor's lifespan indefinitely, a significant advantage over monolithic floor coverings or traditional tiled floors where matching discontinued batches becomes nearly impossible. Simply keep a spare panel or two for future repairs, and your floor remains perfect for decades.
Design Inspiration:
Clifton CLIF-02 excels at creating contemporary interiors with Scandinavian and minimalist influences. In modern Nordic-inspired homes, use this soft grey and white star pattern to add geometric interest without cluttering the clean aesthetic – pair it with white walls, light oak or ash wood furniture, pale linen textiles, and minimal accessories for a cohesive Scandinavian look. The gentle colour palette creates a calming foundation that allows you to layer texture through natural materials like wool, cotton, and wood without creating visual chaos or overwhelming the space.
For contemporary country homes, Clifton CLIF-02 provides the perfect bridge between rustic charm and modern sophistication. The Victorian star pattern adds architectural interest that respects period character while the soft grey and white palette maintains the light, airy feel essential to modern country styling. Install it in country kitchens where the practical waterproof surface handles family life while maintaining elegant styling, or in entrance halls where it creates a welcoming transition between muddy outdoors and pristine interior spaces. Pair with painted tongue-and-groove paneling, butler sinks, and country furniture for relaxed rural elegance.
In coastal and seaside properties, the grey and white combination evokes weathered driftwood, sea foam, and sandy beaches, creating an immediate connection with the surrounding environment. Use Clifton CLIF-02 throughout ground floor living spaces to create flowing continuity between entrance, kitchen, dining, and conservatory areas. Pair with whites, soft blues, natural rope or rattan accessories, and sheer linen curtains to complete the coastal aesthetic. The geometric pattern provides visual interest that anchors the space while the soft palette maintains the light, breezy feel essential to seaside living.
Create visual zoning in open-plan layouts by using Clifton CLIF-02 in the kitchen area while transitioning to Karndean wood-effect planks in living and dining zones. This approach clearly delineates functional areas without requiring walls or physical dividers, maintaining the open, flowing quality while providing practical benefits – durable tile-effect flooring where you need moisture resistance, warmer wood-effect styling where you live and relax. Alternatively, use Clifton throughout an entire ground floor to create unified flow, letting furniture arrangement, area rugs, and lighting define individual zones.
The Heritage Collection's decorative border options allow you to frame your Clifton floor with additional geometric interest, creating custom designs unique to your home. A contrasting border in darker tones can define the perimeter of a large room or create a decorative panel effect in the centre of an entrance hall. You might also combine Clifton CLIF-02 with other Heritage Collection patterns – picture a Clifton entrance hall that flows into a Lansdown LANS-02 hallway through a geometric transition strip, or a bathroom where Clifton tiles meet Montpellier borders for layered Victorian styling.
Why Choose Heritage Collection:
Selecting Karndean Heritage Collection Clifton CLIF-02 over traditional ceramic tiles delivers compelling advantages in comfort, maintenance, and practicality that dramatically improve daily living. Traditional ceramic tiles feel cold and hard underfoot, particularly uncomfortable during winter months when stepping onto tile floors can be genuinely unpleasant, especially first thing in the morning. Clifton's luxury vinyl construction provides significantly warmer surface temperature naturally, and when combined with underfloor heating, warms more quickly and retains heat more efficiently than ceramic, reducing energy consumption while maximizing comfort.
The absence of grout lines transforms floor maintenance from a time-consuming chore into a quick, simple task that takes minutes rather than hours. Traditional tiled floors require regular grout cleaning with specialized brushes and harsh chemicals, periodic resealing to prevent moisture penetration and staining, and often develop discoloured, grimy grout that's nearly impossible to restore to original brightness. Clifton eliminates these frustrations entirely – seamless panels mean no porous grout lines to harbour dirt, bacteria, or mould. Just sweep and mop occasionally, and your floor looks pristine, saving countless hours of maintenance effort over the floor's lifetime.
Acoustic comfort represents another significant yet often overlooked advantage that dramatically impacts daily living quality. Ceramic tiles create hard, sound-reflective surfaces that amplify noise, making entrance halls and kitchens feel echoey and chaotic during busy family periods. Clifton's softer composition absorbs impact sounds, significantly reducing the clatter of footsteps, dropped items, and furniture movement. This creates a more peaceful, comfortable home environment, particularly valuable in apartments, terraced houses, or properties with open-plan layouts where sound easily travels between spaces and noise control becomes essential for harmonious living.
Installation efficiency gives Clifton considerable advantages in both new builds and renovation projects, saving time and money. The pre-assembled panel format installs much faster than individual mosaic pieces, reducing labour costs and minimizing disruption to your home. There's no drying time for adhesive or grout, allowing rooms to return to use immediately rather than waiting days for installation to complete. For renovations, Clifton can often be installed directly over existing floors, eliminating the cost, mess, and disposal challenges of removing old ceramic tiles – a process that can be both expensive and disruptive.
From a sustainability perspective, Karndean demonstrates strong environmental commitments throughout their manufacturing processes and product lifecycle. Clifton floors are designed for genuine longevity rather than planned obsolescence, with the lifetime residential warranty reflecting authentic durability that reduces the need for replacement and keeps functional flooring out of landfills. The ability to replace individual panels extends usable life even further, allowing you to maintain a perfect floor for decades. Karndean actively works to reduce environmental impact across sourcing, production, and distribution, making their floors a more responsible choice for environmentally conscious homeowners.
Clifton CLIF-02 represents the perfect synthesis of Victorian architectural elegance and contemporary minimalist design. You receive authentic star-and-square pattern styling that adds genuine value and character to your property, combined with soft grey and white sophistication and practical benefits that make luxury vinyl the intelligent choice for modern living. Whether you're creating a Scandinavian-inspired bathroom, updating a contemporary country kitchen, designing a coastal retreat, or specifying flooring for a boutique hotel, Clifton CLIF-02 delivers timeless geometric elegance with understated grey and white styling that will remain stylish and serviceable for decades to come.
