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Tidying Up: How to Clean Up Different Tile Types

Architectural Ceramics

From her NY Times best-selling books, to her overnight hit show Tidying Up with Marie Kondo on Netflix, the KonMari method teaches us to focus on organizing by way of categories and to strive for a cleaner home filled with items that spark joy. A marble mosaic from AC’s Brocade Collection.

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Tile Excellence For Sale and I retired to Florida, So why am I in Gloucester, MA.

Tile Excellence

I am BOOKED solid with tile installation and repair jobs, including lots of waterline swimming pool tile repairs. If you are the new lucky owner of Tile Excellence , y ou could already have your summer booked with tile jobs. Tile Installation Services | Labor Only | Tile Excellence.

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Keeping Warm with Fireplace Tile

Architectural Ceramics

Made to look like Italian travertine, this large format porcelain tile from our in-stock Monticello Collection , does double-duty as a stylish and durable fireplace option. Just like natural travertine tile would have a range of color variation, our porcelain does the same. Modern & Moody.

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Natural Stone: Opportunity knocks as consumers hunker down

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Entire walls of book-matched slab and walls of sculpted stone tile and slab have become signatures of the work of top designers and architects in luxury residential.”. However, the desire for warm colors and texture bring travertine and slates as well as warmer marble into the mix as well.”. Challenges remain. Innovation and trends.

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Avoid Spooky Tile Situations with Advice from AC’s Customer Service Team

Architectural Ceramics

.” Inspecting a handmade crackle glaze arabesque mosaic, sheet by sheet. We suggest not booking your installation on their calendar until you know for sure your material has been well-received and looks like what you expected. The sooner you involve a contractor, the better. Applying a sealant to an installed tile and grout.

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Tile Installation-Tile Repair-Tile Experts: Tile Excellence: Tile.

Tile Excellence

Such materials as Marble, Travertine and soapstone are easily scratched and a sanded grout is not applicable [according to the manufacturer]. As well as glass and metal mosaic tile that manufacturers recommend be installed with unsanded grout But I will explain how and why I used sanded grout for the installation. Newer Post.

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Decorator On Demand: Change the Face of Your Fireplace, Part 2

Decorator on Demand

On this fireplace, we did a Contours tile from Diamond Tech with a travertine slab on top of the hearth. Oh and yes I took out the tired marble surround and replaced it with the travertine tile I used in the floor of his kitchen to tie it all in. Add a few mosaic tiles and turn your plain living room into a modern luxury!