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Cool Kitchen Backsplashes to Whet Your Appetite

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

The basic function of kitchen backsplashes is to prevent water, food and other types of liquids and solids from damaging the wall behind your kitchen counters. However, backsplashes can be both functional and stylish. A photo of the city’s skyline is the inspiration for this spectacular kitchen backsplash in Melbourne.

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April Showers Bring May Flowers

Architectural Ceramics

If April showers bring May flowers, then Architectural Ceramic’s brings you a twist on the classic rhyme. From the ground up, we’ll see what goes under and over shower floors and walls. Architectural Ceramics offers two brands, Laticrete and Schluter , that make shower systems part of their specialty.

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Kitchen Ideas – The Ultimate Design Resource Guide

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

Not all are large and flooded with natural light and original hardwood floors, but some of the same guiding principles apply regardless of what your space looks like. Creating a design where colors and textures are cohesive from the floor to the ceiling can be challenging so simplify the design process by choosing an all white kitchen.

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‘Tis the Season for Trimming Tile Edges

Architectural Ceramics

We’ve been making a few lists of our own at Architectural Ceramics. Base molding: Just like wood molding is used at the bottom of a wall where it meets the floor, base molding can be made out of ceramic, marble or porcelain, and functions the same way. Here is a quick list of common tile trim types and where to use them.

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Avente Tile Talk: Coverings 2013 Set to Dazzle with Trend-Setting.

Tile Talk

It’s this dedication to innovation and resourcefulness that continue to drive the success of Coverings and make it a must-attend annual event. Once again, Coverings will be host to hundreds of exhibitors, distributors, retailers, fabricators, contractors, specifiers, architectural and design professionals. Image via Kale Seramik.

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Avente Tile Talk: Cement Tile Layout Guide & Checklist

Tile Talk

Achieve the classic look of a tile rug on your floor with a border. When laying patterned or plain tile for a backsplash or floor, you want to minimize cuts in the main field. For floors, youll start in the center of the room and work your way out to the walls; making cuts only to those tiles near the edge of the room.

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Avente Tile Talk: Thanks to the Tile Heritage Foundation

Tile Talk

A big drive is to transition their archive to an online searchable resource available to the industry and to the public. Shortly after I started Avente Tile, I remember Jorge Aguayo, of Aguayo Tile explaining that he had discovered many floors in disrepair while visiting Cuba. backsplash designs. floor tile. floor tile.

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