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2015 Kitchen and Bathroom Design Trends

CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

One of the kitchen trends this year will be to add more color and liveliness with cheerful backsplashes, lighting and appliances. Mosaics will be popular for backsplash design, providing beautiful, eye-catching details that add elegance to an otherwise ordinary kitchen. Black is going to be on of 2015’s go-to colors in kitchen design.

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Ceramic: Key requirements for a top-quality installation

Floor Covering News

and Brad Trostrud, president of Trostrud Mosaic & Tile Company, Wood Dale, Ill. All of our adhesives, mortars and grouts—everything that we use to bond our ceramic tile, porcelain tile—have limitations, either on the low scale or the high scale in terms of temperatures,” she explained. First things first—make a checklist.

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Avente Tile Talk: Artist Series Cement Tile Collection Grows with.

Tile Talk

This new collection, created by artists Guillermo Gomez Lama and Tania Marmolejo, boasts eight different designs, each presented with three color options. Guillermos research led him to train with Master Printer Marie Dormuth, with whom artists Andy Warhol, Peter Gee and Martin Mazorra received training in the art of lithography.

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Natural Stone: Opportunity knocks as consumers hunker down

Floor Covering News

These two stones will continue to take market share as long as a contemporary color palette is offered.”. However, the desire for warm colors and texture bring travertine and slates as well as warmer marble into the mix as well.”. “Marbles and limestone are the two most popular stones in the industry,” Dal-Tile’s Viana said.

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Avente Tile Talk: Enduring Tile of the London Underground

Tile Talk

2013 marks the 150th anniversary of the first train journey on the London underground. To The Trains Tile Sign. Finsbury Park on the Victoria Line has balloon mosaics in reference to the balloon launches at the park. Artisan Porcelain Tiles for the Pool. Margaret Almon Mosaics. Tuesday, August 27, 2013. Gold Notes.

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Ceramic: Category reaps benefits of booming housing market

Floor Covering News

MSI’s Arterra porcelain pavers feature Zero-slip, a proprietary technology providing exceptional slip resistance for wet and dry flooring. Tile that mimics natural materials such as wood, marble, terrazzo, concrete and brick is extremely popular, along with handcrafted looks that feature highly tactile qualities and color variance.

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Ceramic: Consumers yearn for outdoor living

Floor Covering News

In many areas of the country, porcelain pavers are an added market segment that, so far, traditional tile dealers have not covered,” said Paolo Mularoni, president, Del Conca USA. MSI’s Arterra Porcelain Pavers. Train your staff to be comfortable introducing porcelain as a high-value, low-maintenance alternative.”.

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