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Floor Covering News
MARCH 16, 2023
laminate flooring category has been well documented. According to CFL, AtroGuard Q is up to 6x times quieter than standard laminate and features all the advantages customers have come to expect from a waterproof laminate floor—durability, scratch and dent resistance and visual appeal. T he resurgence of the U.S.
Tile Talk
DECEMBER 4, 2012
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. design standards.
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Tile Talk
DECEMBER 18, 2012
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.
Tile Talk
JUNE 25, 2013
Color guides me in my work, experimenting with complementary hues, and color gradation. A Flickr friend commissioned us to create a house number for her sister, who loves the weathered colors of totem poles. Flipping through a book of her art, I found a watercolor painting of totem poles evocative of what our client requested.
CTDA's Tiledealer Blog
JULY 24, 2012
My grandmother worked at Gladding McBean (Franciscan Tile), hand painting dinnerware while she was pregnant with my father. I had been a Certified Ceramic Tile Consultant (CTC) through the CTIOA since 1979 and a Certified Construction Document Technologist through CSI since 2000.
Life of an Architect
SEPTEMBER 22, 2013
–even if you guess the right product, you then have to guess the right color. d in labor each would have furred those ceilings to a much more humane 96″ cleing height–which would be more than offset by the savings in drywall and paint. Consider only counter tops. And, this is a thousand(s) sort of guess, not hundreds.
Life of an Architect
MARCH 17, 2019
The bid process has several steps that are typically standard no matter what “delivery method” you are utilizing for your project. (We Step 2: Advertise the Project (at large or to invited bidders) During this period, the construction documents are provided to contractors and tradesmen to review, question, and price.
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