Floor Covering News

JANUARY 8, 2024

This feature is designed to help suppliers get their new products in front of the specialty retail community, which is eager to learn what’s new for 2024. The core technology features Envision AI, which designs intricate wood and tile patterns; DSE, which adds authentic textures; and TruBevel, which aims to perfect the edges.

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Diary of a Tile Addict

APRIL 18, 2018

The company’s stand will feature, among other new designs, King’s Star Blue; durable ceramic slabs which have four 83/4in (200 by 200mm) squares separated by scored grout lines. SomerTile suggest using a charcoal grey grout during installation to emphasise the design’s strong graphic appeal. Improving lives.”

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Diary of a Tile Addict

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Odhran Connelly with his winning tiling creation at SkillBuild 2018. So many, many congratulations from Tile Addict to Odhran Connelly from Southern Regional College in Northern Ireland for his recent victory at the SkillBuild 2018 National Finals in Wall and Floor Tiling. What an opportunity! More at: [link].

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Diary of a Tile Addict

JUNE 4, 2018

I have had a great feedback on my recent posts concerning the application of colour, and particularly coloured grouts, at the recent Coverings exhibition. This product can be used to fix and grout most materials, including porcelain stoneware, klinker, glass and metallic mosaic, natural and reconstituted stone, pebbles and even wood.

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Granada Tile

DECEMBER 22, 2017

As 2017 slides into 2018 and the trend forecasting begins — what’s in, what’s out, what to keep, what to throw away — we were excited to see that tile remains high on the list of trends that Lonny editors want to stick around. We’re sure you’ll fall in love before the grout even dries.

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Diary of a Tile Addict

JULY 4, 2018

This is the time of year when tile manufacturers start to inform Tile Addict of their plans for Cersaie 2018. Supreme Wide 20 in Noir Lauren design by Flaviker. Note the coloured grout lines. Flaviker will be pushing back the frontiers of porcelain at Cersaie 2018, with new 12mm thick panels and its new Bath Design project.

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Diary of a Tile Addict

JULY 5, 2018

With its 70’s inspired palette of, soft glazes, and linear and circle patterns, Bold offers designers the ultimate cutting-edge look for contemporary residential and commercial projects. A new post by Joe Simpson, Diary of a Tile Addict, July 2018. Bold, mustard circle, by Marca Corona. Bold palette – white, sage, mustard.

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Diary of a Tile Addict

MAY 21, 2018

If you are looking for innovation in wall tile design, the metro tile may seem an unlikely destination. But the design team at Colorker clearly have other ideas. The second is that this is a range that has clearly been designed to work with, and take advantage, of the current generation of coloured grouts.

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Architectural Ceramics

APRIL 26, 2018

From the shower pan to the grout, and everything in between, we’ve got you covered. Architectural Ceramics stocks a few of their products, a popular seller for example, is their grout. The thinner, is designed for shower spaces that need a full length but minimal curb to contain water. It’s Raining Cats & Dogs.

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Diary of a Tile Addict

JUNE 18, 2018

Matrice designed for Cedit by BRH+ (Barbara Brondi and Marco Raino?). Today’s post brings together two design strands that have much preoccupied Tile Addict of late: concrete-effect tiles and incised linear patterns picked out in contrasting grout colours. These provide a framework for infinite design combinations.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

—The winning creation for Design ‘N Gather 2018 will be unveiled at the NoMad Hotel in New York City, Nov. What’s more, the winning design will be permanently installed in the Cupola using Bostik’s Dimension RapidCure. Bostik's Dimension RapidCure was also specified as the grout […].

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Kitchen and Residential Design

MAY 7, 2019

In addition, according to the 2018 Houzz Bathroom Trends Study , more than half of Baby Boomer homeowners are planning to renovate their bathrooms to support aging in place. And, their streamlined footprint has a cleaner appearance than typical center drains, which complements the trend toward more contemporary bathroom designs.

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Diary of a Tile Addict

JANUARY 17, 2020

Interestingly, however, interior design was much more interested in looking back. A wonderfully creative shade of purple was provided with Pantone’s 2018 Ultra Violet. Many green offerings leaned more to the dark and emerald side, or to the toned down earthy hues but there were some more startling shades to go around.

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Diary of a Tile Addict

MARCH 7, 2019

Interior designers don’t seem to agree on 2019s taste for terrazzo. Terrazzo with a twist was a very big trend last year (link to article), with multiple designs creating a vast range in materials, colours, and finishes. Most unique of which is their Tessere (Weave) design which utilises their ‘Mini’ finer grain.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 30, 2020

The update allows designers to specify adhered porcelain tiles aslarge as 48 x 48 or 36 x 72 on building facades. From macro to micro, each group discussed the trends of the day that will most likely impact tile and stone design moving forward. Imports were also down 5.5% from the previous yearto 2.08 billion square feet. of 2019 U.S.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 27, 2019

The downward trend began in 2018, and the residential ceramic business slowed for the first three quarters of 2019. Gianni Mattioli, executive vice president, Dal-Tile Corporation, noted, however, the buildup of inventory, especially from China, during the last quarter of 2018 in anticipation of higher tariffs scheduled for January 1, 2019.

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Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

DECEMBER 30, 2018

We explored a lot in 2018. Let’s find out as we walk through a brief 2018 design trend recap. In 2018, there were no limits when it came to color. Image: AMR Design. But 2018 invited us to blow the lid off our preconceived notions about color theory and have some fun. But what really made its mark?

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Kitchen and Residential Design

MARCH 14, 2018

The good folks at CR Brands have made me a Mean Green brand ambassador for 2018 and as such, I get to display the nifty Mean Green banner you can see in my right column and they sent me a collection of Mean Green products to take for a test drive. Kitchen and Residential Design

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 10, 2020

The meteoric rise of the resilient flooring category can be directly attributed to the performance of subcategories such as SPC and rigid core, which doubled in terms of volume and more than doubled in terms of dollars between 2018 and 2019. million square feet in 2018. FCNews research found that the subsegment accounted for 37.1%

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 9, 2021

Since its inception, COREtec has challenged the industry to think bigger and go further—in style, design, performance and innovation. These days, home has never been more important to consumers, and COREtec lets the customer show off the styles that are true to their “CORE”—all without having to sacrifice design for performance.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 21, 2021

The popularity and adoption of rigid core flooring—namely SPC—has grown by leaps and bounds since just 2018, and even today controls a large portion of the market. Ceramic and porcelain tile, especially in the shapes and mosaic designs now available, requires highly skilled installers. “A in 2020, which had commanded 21.2%

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