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Tidying Up: How to Clean Up Different Tile Types

Architectural Ceramics

While we can’t help you clean out your closet by purging, thanking, or folding your clothes, Architectural Ceramics can help you clean your tile floor or backsplash. Handmade ceramics are often hand-painted. Avoid harsh chemical-based products when cleaning the surface of these tiles. Machine-Made Ceramics. Windex anyone?

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Avente Tile Talk: Thanks to the Tile Heritage Foundation

Tile Talk

Tile and our Collective History One of the reasons I started Avente was my love of tile - both in the beauty of the hand painted design and the sense of place and time it conveys. The light hand painted blue and white strokes of a stylistic floral pattern on tile can have you dreaming about a centuries-old street corner in Portugal.

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Letters from a traveling Architecture Student | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Home / Life in General / Letters from a traveling Architecture Student Letters from a traveling Architecture Student Bob Borson — October 24, 2013 — 38 Comments 23 years ago, as a fourth year architecture student, I spent the Fall semester traveling around Western Europe soaking in all the architectural wonders I could find.

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Great Ideas for Recycled & Sustainable Wall Coverings

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

One of the ways to find recycled products is to look into the plethora of recycled wall coverings that have made it to the market. Tile studio Artaic even created mosaics out of recycled tile that depict other reused and old materials, like scrap paper, torn cardboard, reclaimed wood and peeling paint. Image: yampi/Shutterstock.

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Avente Tile Talk: Interview with Nutmeg Designs

Tile Talk

Flipping through a book of her art, I found a watercolor painting of totem poles evocative of what our client requested. This year Wayne and I began a blog at our website for collaborations (http//nutmegdesignsart.com), documenting work in progress, our commissions and the process of being a Dynamic Duo. green building products.

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Documenting Architecture with Photos

Life of an Architect

I’m sure the contractor loves it because it means one massive step closer to making the building weather tight – but I love it because the house actually starts to look like the end product. This is what an unfinished level 5 wall looks like … there is no paint on this wall whatsoever. No paint on these walls either.

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“I Owe a Lot to This Industry”

CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

My grandmother worked at Gladding McBean (Franciscan Tile), hand painting dinnerware while she was pregnant with my father. Then I specialized in architectural and contractor sales, and specified and sold many larger architectural projects. TileDealer : Discuss the architectural specifications aspect of your work.

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