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A Recap: 2018 Coverings Tile & Stone Show

Architectural Ceramics

We were honored to also have an in-house 2018 Coverings Rockstar , David Benson, on our team to guide us through the show. Blue Grout Installation: Brightly colored grout can make any tile pop! Blue grout used with angular tile, porcelain that looks like MDF chip board. Check out Benson’s award announcement here.

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2018 Tile Trends from Tile of Spain

JG Kitchens

Here’s the trade group’s take on what’s hot for ceramic tile in 2018: Monochromatic. Accent tones of choice for 2018 are denim blues (ranging from steely grey-blue to deep and saturated over-dyed indigos) and deep wine bottle or British racing greens. Vives Doney (floor), Vives Mosaico Necci Blanco (wall).

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2018 Tile Trends from Tile of Spain

JG Kitchens

Here’s the trade group’s take on what’s hot for ceramic tile in 2018: Monochromatic. Accent tones of choice for 2018 are denim blues (ranging from steely grey-blue to deep and saturated over-dyed indigos) and deep wine bottle or British racing greens. Vives Doney (floor), Vives Mosaico Necci Blanco (wall).

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STATS: Tile sales decline, comeback looms large

Floor Covering News

Continuing its downward trajectory, ceramic tile sales in 2020 experienced a low, single-digit decline in terms of overall dollar sales and similar declines in terms of volume. Ceramic tile sales in 2020 declined roughly 5%. of dollar sales for the gradually increasing hard surface market and 24.6% Imports vs. domestics.

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Suppliers answer call as waterproof demand increases

Floor Covering News

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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Metropolitan Mastery

Diary of a Tile Addict

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. This adds real impact at the point of sale … thus the prospect of a valuable extra sale for retailers. A new post by Joe Simpson, Diary of a Tile Addict, May 2018.

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Dawning Diversification

Diary of a Tile Addict

This is the time of year when tile manufacturers start to inform Tile Addict of their plans for Cersaie 2018. 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. Hyper Slim Pack Grey by Flaviker. More at: [link].