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Installation Equation: Cement Wall Tiles Add a Lovely Layer in Chicago

Granada Tile

Don’t get us wrong—we love the backsplashes and floor tile installations that we see—but we go gaga when we see unusual cement tile installations. Take a new Chicago tapas place, Black Bull. Headed to Chicago soon? The restaurant bills itself as a hidden gem, and it is in more ways than one.

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Flooring wins big at NeoCon 2021

Floor Covering News

Flooring exhibitors came out big winners at the 30 th edition of the Best of NeoCon Awards in Chicago earlier this week. Di Anna Borders, VP design, Armstrong Flooring. In the Hard Surface/LVT category, Armstrong Flooring took home the Gold for its Rest & Refuge Rigid core line, while Aspecta won Silver.

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A Restaurant Owner’s Guide to Choosing Tile for a Patio or Restaurant Floor

Granada Tile

With their durability and beauty, they are shown being used as tiles for floors, walls, backsplashes, and countertops. Cement Tile Wall in Restaurant The Sofia-55A cement tile pattern by Granada Tile business offers a vivid background for the tapas served at Black Bull restaurant in Chicago’s Wicker Park area.

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A Playful Bathroom Floor Using Tunis Cement Tiles

Granada Tile

A Playful Bathroom Floor. For the bathroom floor of a renovated 1890s Chicago townhouse, architect Rebecca Liddy of Kulinski and Rappe Architects , was hoping to find tile that would be appropriate to the period. Moreover, our cement tiles are the ideal choice for a bathroom floor. The tile is smooth and not slippery.

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Creative Edge acquires Custom Flooring Insets

Stone Update

FAIRFIELD, Iowa – Large-scale waterjet fabricator Creative Edge acquired Custom Flooring Insets (CFI) of East Dundee, Ill. CFI has partnered with Chicago-area flooring contractors since 1946, engineering and fabricating custom flooring designs from their plant in East Dundee, IL. Terms of the deal weren’t announced.

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Experimenting with Ceramic Formats

Tile of Spain USA

The idea that square tiles are the only option for floors and walls has become a thing of the past. Special formats have the ability to bring a space to life, transforming floors and walls into a creative canvas. These non-traditional wall and flooring options establish a steady rhythm of movement throughout a home.

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Armstrong Flooring wins three 2019 Good Design awards

Floor Covering News

Armstrong Flooring has received Good Design awards for Rigid Core Vantage, Migrations and Striations BBT, and Alterna engineered tile. Founded in Chicago in 1950, Good Design is organized annually by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design in cooperation with the European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies.