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TISE 2024: Resilient flooring focuses on innovation

Floor Covering News

The company’s theme this year was “Better by design” and it definitely lived up to it with an elevated product offering for its partners. “We The woods and stones that inspire Karndean designs are sourced from around the world—forests and lumberyards to remote mountain quarries, some even exclusive to Karndean.

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Bigger Is Better: Large Format Porcelain Tile

Architectural Ceramics

The Essenze color definitely fits the farmhouse feel. Now, more perfected techniques like the high-definition graphic printing technique used on our Genesis Collection , give a clearer result and future for porcelain tile. But, based on the other colors in the collection, Back would work well in a laid back beach home.

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Queries and Quandaries: Stone Tile on Exterior Balcony

StoneDimensions

The amount of water that is experienced by the surface, the pitch of the surface slope, the permeability of the stone, and the permeability of the grout are all factors as to what amount of water penetrates the bed. The setting bed beneath the tile will achieve varying levels of saturation.

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Kitchen and Residential Design: A Coverings preview

Kitchen and Residential Design

Gallant gives marble, onyx and travertine a run for their money thanks to the high definition technology used to mimic the looks. • Litokol Spa (Booth 4534) is giving grouting mortar a fresh new look with Litochrom Starlike. • Florida Tile (Booth 3223) is touting Gallant HDP and PietraArt Stone Mosaics.

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A Clean Slate: How Rough Slate Can Have a Clean Aesthetic

Architectural Ceramics

The textbook definition describes slate as: “A fine-grained, foliated , homogeneous m etamo rphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. This backsplash, done in the color Sutra Black, is a grout-free stacked slate. What is natural slate?

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