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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. Check out the following tips below, organized into categories, to care for and maintain your porcelain, ceramic, glass or natural stone tile. Machine-Made Ceramics.

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Medieval Flooring & Encaustic Tile

Architectural Ceramics

Ceramic floor tile first started to appear in medieval England in the thirteenth century. Our knowledge of floors in medieval domestic buildings is primarily from excavated buildings or documents from the time. They are usually two colors, but a tile may be composed of as many as six. Quick History of Tile in Medieval England.

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Not All Wood-Look Tiles Are Created Equal

Architectural Ceramics

Below are 3 of the 100 examples of the faces within the Wood Replica collection (color: beige). Ceramic vs. Porcelain Wood-Look Tiles. To understand the difference between a red clay, white clay, and porcelain tile, there is a document that lays out some specifications on our website here.) See more Wood Replica here.

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Laticrete featured on digital TV series

Floor Covering News

In the two new 10-part digital video series, “Idea House Build: Cottage on the Cape” and “Idea House Build: Farmhouse in Fairfield County,” viewers follow along with the construction crew as they document everything from the groundbreaking to the home transformation journey.

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Innovations drive interest in cork, bamboo

Floor Covering News

From their well-documented environmentally friendly benefits to their unique visual characteristics, cork and bamboo flooring provide a desirable alternative to many of the commodity-driven hard surface products in abundance in the industry today. Cork stoppers are used in the pattern, and the collection is available in four popular colors.

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The 31 Best Residential Design Blogs Featuring Awesome Cement Tile (A Definitive List For Encaustic Tile Enthusiasts)

Granada Tile

A Target Home spokesperson, she focuses on creating homes that are quirky, attainable and filled with her favorite color, blue. Of all of the design blogs that cover cement tile, we give the prize to Justina Blakeney’s Jungalow for being the most colorful. Her motto is “Perfection is boring; Let’s get weird.”

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Avente Tile Talk: Persian Tile: A Form of Art and Religious Expression

Tile Talk

Over the centuries, creative artisans used colored stones and brick to create geometric patterns on structures. “Tiles in such colors as yellow, blue, brown, black, turquoise, green and white were cut and carved into small pieces according to a previously prepared pattern,” says the Iran Chamber Society. ceramic tile.

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