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Documenting Architecture with Photos

Life of an Architect

the change in elevation is the difference between the high one – where the wood flooring will get installed – and the low one – which is where we dropped the floor so that our stone tile would be flush set with the finished floor. This is looking up at the second floor on the backside elevation.

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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. Cleaning a porcelain tile floor like our Himalaya Collection , shown above, takes nothing more than a little routine vacuuming or a quick wipe with a damp towel.

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Laminate enhancements fuel resurgence in 2023

Floor Covering News

laminate flooring category has been well documented. This phenomenon forced specialty retailers and distributors to fill the void with domestically produced laminate flooring. This phenomenon forced specialty retailers and distributors to fill the void with domestically produced laminate flooring.

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Avente Tile Talk: Thanks to the Tile Heritage Foundation

Tile Talk

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.

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

Tile Talk

Images were first painted onto plain rectangular tiles, glazed, and then fired. Its unfortunate that this glorious form of art wasnt extensively documented throughout the ages. floor tile. hand painted tile. Across the Color Spectrum: Painting by Lauralee Klindt. Flooring The Consumer. at 6:00 AM.

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Avente Tile Talk: Interview with Nutmeg Designs

Tile Talk

Flipping through a book of her art, I found a watercolor painting of totem poles evocative of what our client requested. This year Wayne and I began a blog at our website for collaborations (http//nutmegdesignsart.com), documenting work in progress, our commissions and the process of being a Dynamic Duo. floor tile. cement tile.

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Master Bathroom … Again

Life of an Architect

And before anyone decides to comment on the painting I have on my wall, my Grandmother painted this painting and I just haven’t figured out where to put it just yet … after three years. It’s not a lot of fun turning on the water approximately 7″ above the floor. Master Bathroom So. Wish me luck 1

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