Is there a pattern to random tile your kitchen in diffrenet colour tiles. (5 different colours)?

Answer 1

If it's random, there cannot be a pattern

Answer 2

A truly random pattern would not prevent tiles of the same colour being laid together. I suspect you want to use 5 colours to tile the floor in such a way that there is not a repeating pattern, or tiles of the same colour next to each other.

I would suggest drawing a scale plan of the floor with squares to represent the tiles. Make a few photocopies.
Get an old pack of playing cards and number 50 of the cards from 1 to 5, giving 10 sets.
Shuffle the cards. Turn them over one at a time onto a discard pile. Starting in one corner, number the tile squares on the plan according to the numbers on the cards as you turn them over.
If the same number appears on two adjacent squares, put the card on the bottom and use the next one until you get a different colour.
When you have gone through all 50 cards, shuffle them and start again if there are tiles left.
Allocate a colour to each number.
Colour in the grid to see whether you like it. You can change the colour assigned to a number if you prefer a different one, or start all over again...

Answer 3

The best way to do random tiles is to truly choose any color at random for the next tile you place. For example, assign each color to a number (1 through 5) and get the ace through 5 cards in a suit of a deck of playing cards. Shuffle the cards and pick one at random. That's your first color (set it aside or write it down). Put the card back in the pile, reshuffle, and pick again. Continue doing that until you have picked enough tiles to do your area.

But, you might want to lay the tiles out in the order you randomly chose (set them on a flat surface without mastic or anything) to see how the "pattern" came out. Is there too much of one color in a given area? Does the overall tone look too dark or too light, or is it too much of the wrong color?

When you're satisfied that a particular layout will work, write that down (draw a grid and assign the color number for each tile in each box). Then tile away, knowing that your "pattern" works for you.

(BTW - I put "pattern" in quotes because, while "random pattern" is the correct term for what you are doing, it's actually an oxymoron)

Answer 4

Yes there is, we have a chess style thing, you know, how the knight can move? So there are five colours and white, and there are four white tiles between each colour, and then under the colour is a chess move to the next... it's hard to explain, I wish I could draw it for you! Here, the c is for colour, the w is for white;

w w c w w w w c
c w w w w c w w
w w w c w w w w
w c w w w w c w

I hope it makes sense-ish! The colours in our kitchen go in the same pattern across, we have dark blue, green, orange, light blue and then yellow.

Answer 5

No there isn't but in a truly random selection you could end up with three, four or even five same coloured ones together and you don't want that.Seperate the five different colours into their own groups.Do a practice square of twentyfive tiles and when your happy with how it looks lay it.Carry on like that but make sure your groups of colours are being used up at the same rate.

Answer 6

depends on what your looking for !~ the guide i would follow would be to ensure no other color is with in 2 tiles from the same color!
it's sort of a pattern but not
so i get what you are saying !

Answer 7

Isn't having a pattern defeating the purpose of being random?

Answer 8

Lay it all out first in the space....we tiled our kitchen with slate, and the overall colors are neutral, but when you start examining it, there's purple, blue, green, yellow....and we have NO pattern, but we laid it all out first and ended up switching a few so all the 'color' didn't end up in one space.

Answer 9

Random means there is no plan.

Answer 10

Um - isn't that a contradiction in terms?