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Laminate enhancements fuel resurgence in 2023

Floor Covering News

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.

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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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“I Owe a Lot to This Industry”

CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

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. What does the training consist of?

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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. design standards.

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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. design standards. hand painted tile. Across the Color Spectrum: Painting by Lauralee Klindt. Image via www.IslamicArts.org. bathroom tile.

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Letters from a traveling Architecture Student | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

I love that I have these documents, and I don’t think that having these in email form would allow the stories to contain the same sort of power. i like sketching, i dont like dealing with paints etc. Rebecca Warren This is awesome. I’m a student at Virginia Tech and just got back from traveling on the same program!

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What Home Buyers Really Want | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

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. Your standard sized kitchen would benefit more from one DW and one Wine fridge a bit more I would think. About $40 in 2x and 0.5m/d Send to Email Address.

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