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Tiled Floors: A World at Your Feet

Tile of Spain USA

Tiled floors are taking over and they can be seen in more and more places: living rooms, bedrooms, terraces, stores, restaurants, offices, industrial premises and high-traffic public areas. Why are ceramic tiles such a must? . This combination of benefits allows the same floor tiles to be used across multiple spaces, indoors and out.

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Playlist of the Week — Our Favorite Hits

Architectural Ceramics

After a quick survey, the results are in and we’ve curated a playlist of some of our favorite hits from across the staff, and are more than delighted to share our tastes with you. Enjoy some of our favorite hits from all of us here at Architectural Ceramics, and be sure to enjoy responsibly! Listen on Spotify.

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Housing Harley Davidson

Diary of a Tile Addict

So it is some accolade for UK-based CTD Architectural Tiles that it has recently completed its second Harley Davidson garage in Manchester, England; a project developed in collaboration with Focus Architecture and Surveying. A new post by Joe Simpson, Diary of a Tile Addict, July 2018. More at: [link].

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Goodbye, Ranch! America Has a New Favorite Home Style

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

According to a recent survey by real estate website Trulia , Millennials, who are buying their first homes, have tipped the scale in favor of the new winner: the craftsman bungalow. Image: The Bungalow Company What’s interesting is the great architectural divide between younger and older Americans. Let us know in the comments!

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Guest Post: The Cheney Mansion, Oak Park, IL

The Perfect Bath

The baths offered thoughtful details such as carefully crafted corner pieces and finishing elements as well as a beautifully formed tile shelf that could easily be translated into a classic bathroom today. Gold-toned ceramics clad one of the fireplaces, with an exquisitely veined marble on another.

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In the Fabric’s Path: Orna Shahar’s Spiral Quilt

Margaret Almon Mosaics

In the process I found Paul Calter’s Squaring the Circle: Geometry in Art & Architecture , the chapter on Polygons, Tilings and Sacred Geometry. ” I imagine the idea of surveying the land in the service of beauty.

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Which DIY Projects are Most Likely to Go Over Budget and Why?

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

While homeowners typically take on DIY projects to save money, it turns out that many of them are breaking their fixer-upper budgets and spending much more than they planned, according to a recent survey by Porch. The highest percentage of survey respondents named these as the projects in which they went over budget. New HVAC: 54%.

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