June, 2012

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Focus on the Floor… Spanish Tile Brings Artwork Underfoot

Tile of Spain USA

'Tile of Spain ceramic tile manufacturer Peronda , features ceramic collections inspired by Fashion & Art and harnesses the power of ink jet technology to create tiles that add visual drama to any design. This week we take a look at the company’s unique ceramic tiles that can make the floor an artistic canvas and the focal point of a room. Here is an example from the Museum ceramic tile collection, the Newspaper series, an interesting use of newspaper imagery spread across an office floor.

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Tile Installation-Tile Repair-Tile Experts: Tile Excellence.

Tile Excellence

'Sunday, June 3, 2012. Economical shower waterproofing for ceramic tile, marble,slate.and all natural stone materials. In my 30 year career Ive repaired and seen hundreds of showers that had water damage both inside the shower and inside the wall. Many times the mildew had eaten away at the wood studs in the wall and caused the grout to turn black from the inside out causing costly repairs and complete tear outs to redo the wood studs.In severe cases mildew can be dangerous to the health of the

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Are You OPEN for Business?

CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

'As an early adopter of social media for marketing, I’ve had a number of distributors ask me why I put time and money into social networks. At the most basic level, not having a social media presence is like opening a business and not putting a sign over your door. Many of your customers will still find you, but why make it difficult? For most of your customers—especially the Gen Xers and Millenials who are buying their first homes—their first impression of your business will be through a

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New Bath from Sterling, VA

The Tile Shop

'Kevin just sent me a photo of a remodeled bathroom from Sterling, VA- I love the pop of color the glass gives in the shower! Also looks like they used one of my favorite Uttermost mirrors: Tile: Ivory H/F with Ottawa Brick Glass: Thanks for sharing Kevin!

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SieMatic introduces the latest from Beaux Arts and FloatingSpaces

Kitchen and Residential Design

'Kitchen and Residential Design. Notes and anecdotes from the design world. Pages. Home. About Me. Contact. My Work. My Store. Social Media Training. 13 June 2012. SieMatic introduces the latest from Beaux Arts and FloatingSpaces. Posted by Paul Anater. at 9:00 AM. EuroCucina takes place in Milan every other year as part of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile.

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A Moldy Mess to a Beautiful New Tile Bathroom Shower - Ceramictec

CeramicTec

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A New Canvas for Artwork … Spanish Tile Mosaics

Tile of Spain USA

'If a picture is worth a thousand words … then Tile of Spain manufacturer La Platera can speak volumes using Spanish ceramic tile mosaics. The company’s innovative PIXTILE, is a new concept that allows for limitless creativity and the technological ability to customize mosaics with any image, design or artwork. Below are a few of the current offerings found in the company’s catalog, including this mosaic featuring movie screen legend Audrey Hepburn.

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Time2Design: Mailey my TUBE DUDE Dudette

Time2Design

'PAGES. Home. SLIDESHOW. FOLLOW. CONTACT. ABOUT. NEWS. Mailey my TUBE DUDE Dudette. As a participant in the 2012 17th Annual Jewels on the Bay Showhouse I attended the opening event brunch to honor David and Ilene Denton & Reverend Fredrick and Linda Robinson. During the brunch there was a raffle and I won a custom design of my choice Tube Dude.

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MN Luxury Home Tour 2012

The Tile Shop

'We went to some homes on the MN Luxury Home Tour last Friday.saw some abosuolutely beautiful tile work! Here are some highlights from the homes we saw: Aren''t they beautiful!! We hope to go see more homes next Friday.

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Kitchen Cousins + Modwalls = Backsplash Sensation!!!

Making Tile Modern

'We seriously couldn’t be more ECSTATIC with the final result of HGtv’s Kitchen Cousins (& Brunellesci Construction ‘s) recent kitchen remodel project!!! The episode Fireplace Fiasco aired on HGtv nationwide last Wednesday, June 6th, 2012 and will re-air this Saturday, June 16th, 2012 at 4:30 ET. Set your dvr’s to record if you missed it because it features our very own Lush® glass subway tile , designed by Rex Ray Studio , as the finished kitchen backsplash!!!

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Ceramictec - Custom Bathroom Tile Remodel In Tampa, Florida

CeramicTec

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Tile of Spain Manufacturers Honored with 2012 KB Culture Awards

Tile of Spain USA

'Tile of Spain, the international brand representing 200 ceramic tile manufacturers belonging to the Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturers’ Association (ASCER), is proud to announce that the 2012 KBCULTURE Awards recently honored two innovative products by Tile of Spain manufacturers The Size and Plaza Cerámicas. KBCULTURE is a selective online review of international products, places and perspectives central to kitchen and bath design, produced by Leslie Clagett, a well-known industry editor and

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Cupboards Kitchen and Bath: Friday Find - Ting Leather Flooring

Discerning Design

'Friday, June 22, 2012. Friday Find - Ting Leather Flooring. Ting was formed in 2000 with the mission of creating sustainable products from the onset. I would have likely never thought to take reclaimed leather and used belts(like the kind you wear) and fashion them in to flooring. Beyond that, I would have absolutely never thought it would look as good as this!

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Kitchen and Residential Design: Blanco and Bosch make a great pair

Kitchen and Residential Design

'Kitchen and Residential Design. Notes and anecdotes from the design world. Pages. Home. About Me. Contact. My Work. My Store. Social Media Training. 13 June 2012. Blanco and Bosch make a great pair. Posted by Paul Anater. at 6:00 AM. As I mentioned a couple of times last week, Blanco and Bosch flew me and a bunch of great people I know to Costa Mesa two weeks ago.

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Cement tiles/ Zementfliesen/ mosaicos hidráulicos: Unpacked. sort of!

Mosaicos

'Cement tiles/ Zementfliesen/ mosaicos hidráulicos. about tiles - mainly about patterned floor tiles made either of cement or clay. Pages. Home. About. Friday, June 22, 2012. Unpacked. sort of! The tiles arrived already last week and I just started to look at all the different patterns - and try to decide what to do with them. Die Fliesen sind schon letzte Woche angekommen und ich habe nur mal die verschiedenen Muster bewundert, und muss jetzt überlegen, was ich damit mache.

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Playhouse Design Group + Greenleaf Construction, could they be any cooler?!

Making Tile Modern

'We get totally BLOWN AWAY every time we are blessed with amazing install pics of our modwalls tile in such impressive spaces – especially when we get them from Playhouse Design Group & Greenleaf Construction !!! Seriously can’t get enough of them!! :). We recently did a designer spotlight blog on Playhouse Design Group (find it here ), a spectacular design firm making good design happen on a daily basis in the Pacific Northwest.

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Time2Design: Wallpaper Wednesday I love flock!

Time2Design

'PAGES. Home. SLIDESHOW. FOLLOW. CONTACT. ABOUT. NEWS. Wallpaper Wednesday I love flock! As long as I can remember I have been fascinated and drawn to texture. With that said I love flocked wallpaper - this from a person who hasnt always been fond of wallpaper. Though I must say I have an acquired appreciation for it, wallpaper is one way to bring texture to a space.

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Spanish Tile that Makes Buildings Act More Like Trees …

Tile of Spain USA

'A recent innovation by Tile of Spain manufacturer CERACASA is Bionictile, a porcelain tile with the capacity to purify the air and destroy harmful nitrogen oxides (NOx) that are emitted during the combustion process from car and industrial pollution. Using a special design and a patented glaze that causes NOx to react with the sun’s UV rays and humidity, these tiles are able to turn NOx into very small and harmless water-soluble nitrogen compounds, which are then absorbed safely into the soil o

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Cupboards Kitchen and Bath: Friday Find - Traeger Lil' Pig Grill

Discerning Design

'Friday, June 8, 2012. Friday Find - Traeger Lil Pig Grill. Its squarely grill season in the Heart of Dixie. As much as I love pigs and grills, it was natural that when I saw the Lil Pig from Traeger that Id be in love. Now, if youre not familiar with Traeger Grills and their pretty sweet Wood Pellet Grill system you should absolutely check it out. At first, I was a bit skeptical that it could beat out a traditional charcoal or even a big gas monster like the one I normally use at home, but look

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Kitchen and Residential Design: ¡Adios mosquitos!

Kitchen and Residential Design

'Kitchen and Residential Design. Notes and anecdotes from the design world. Pages. Home. About Me. Contact. My Work. My Store. Social Media Training. 15 June 2012. ¡Adios mosquitos! Posted by Paul Anater. at 7:00 AM. See this? It may be the thing that saves my summer. Thats an InaTrap, a mosquito trap thats actually attractive. Most mosquito traps and bug zappers are an eyesore, but the InaTrap turns all of that on its head.

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Great things are afoot! - Zementfliesen/ mosaicos hidráulicos - Blogger

Mosaicos

'Cement tiles/ Zementfliesen/ mosaicos hidráulicos. about tiles - mainly about patterned floor tiles made either of cement or clay. Pages. Home. About. Saturday, June 9, 2012. Great things are afoot! In this case I might specify: heavy things are on the way - that is a palette of cement tiles from Mosaico Tiles in Marrakesh. I am especially curious about the dragon, which was made just for me!

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Inspired By… Surf!!! (And just in time for Summer!)

Making Tile Modern

'Modwalls Lush® Surf is available in 5 different sizes. SURF is up!!!!! Modwalls Lush® glass subway tile in Surf is most accurately described as a soft, watery aqua green color. This tranquil color can pair well with a ton of different color combinations and design styles (see install images below). Available in 5 different sizes: 1″x2 Surf , 1″x4″ Surf , 3×6″ Surf , 6″x 6″ Surf , and 4″x12 Surf.

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Replacing Broken Porcelain Floor TIle | Confessions Of A Tile Setter

How to Floor Tile

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Spanish Tile in the Virtual World …

Tile of Spain USA

'It’s well known that the Spanish Tile industry is, and always has been, on the leading edge of technology … so, it’s only fitting that the latest technology is now online for architects, designers and consumers who want to get a better sense of what these amazing tiles will look like once they are installed. Here’s a great example …. VIVES CERAMICA’s Panoramic View is a new design app, developed for the company’s website, that allows you to not only view but to also feel the tile c

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Cupboards Kitchen and Bath: Sunday Inspiration - Balancing Barn.

Discerning Design

'Sunday, June 10, 2012. Sunday Inspiration - Balancing Barn House. Sometimes architects have a way of making homes appear to do more(or less) than they appear. The Balancing Barn House near Suffolk across the big pond from us over here in the US is one of those homes. Seeming to teeter on the side of a hill, half of the home is above ground with no supports.

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Kitchen and Residential Design: Think about Silgranit

Kitchen and Residential Design

'Kitchen and Residential Design. Notes and anecdotes from the design world. Pages. Home. About Me. Contact. My Work. My Store. Social Media Training. 05 June 2012. Think about Silgranit. Posted by Paul Anater. at 8:00 AM. Ive spent my whole professional life specifying stainless steel sinks but in the last few years something else has shown up on my radar.

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Where do you get inspired?

H.Winter Showroom Blog

'If your thinking about beginning a home renovation project there are so many tiny details to think about. Sometimes you don''t think about these things until you are at the point of no return and then you get all frazzled. Stop.step back, relax. Think about your home, your family, your personality. What inspires you? Jeffrey Court''s new MOMA border.

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Inspired By… Fog Bank

Making Tile Modern

'It’s easy to see why our Lush® 4″x 12″ Fog Bank is one of our best sellers ! Here’s what one of our customers Brienne of Tucson, Arizona had to say about it (thanks Brienne!). I think she summed it up perfectly! “We had the 4×12 Lush Fog Bank tile installed for our pool at the water line. It is a beautiful and clean modern look.

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Printable Brochure of our Cement Tile

Cement Style

'Of course there is no way we can keep a printed catalog current since our number of patterns grows so fast, but here is a printable brochure for a nice overview of cement tile. Open publication -Cement Tile Catalog. Today we found out that our tile is to be included in an article in London’s Financial Time’s House + Home section. It is printed in 26 countries and has a readership of over 2 million !

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Stone: An Architect's Perspective - New England Stone Walls, An American Stonehenge

Stone World

'In this blog, architect Stephen B. Chambers of Dallas, TX, offers his insight on the use of stone in architecture at sites around the world.

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Cupboards Kitchen and Bath: Bolefloor: Life is not a straight line.

Discerning Design

'Thursday, June 7, 2012. Bolefloor: Life is not a straight line. Any company that has uses the slogan, "Life is not a straight line" is going to be one that Im going to like. Working in the design world, its easy to know how thats the one constant in our industry. No lines are truly plumb. Bolefloor is a revolutionary Dutch product that has the design world buzzing.

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Kitchen and Residential Design: Trading palm trees for corn fields

Kitchen and Residential Design

'Kitchen and Residential Design. Notes and anecdotes from the design world. Pages. Home. About Me. Contact. My Work. My Store. Social Media Training. 20 June 2012. Trading palm trees for corn fields. Posted by Paul Anater. at 7:00 AM. I grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. And no, Im not Amish. via. Lancasters about an hour west of Philly but its a world away.

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Remodeled Bath

The Tile Shop

'A little paint and some new fittings can do wonders.we just freshened up an older bathroom with some new paint, new lights, a new mirror and shower curtain.looks like new now!

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NeoCon: Learning about new products and a whole lot more

Tile Magazine

'Ask anybody who went to Chicago to attend NeoCon this year if the show was a good one and the first thing they’ll talk about were the lines at the elevators, and how treacherous it was navigating the aisles and hallways of that massive building.

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Save Green, Be Green!

Burgin Construction

'We want to help you save some “green” and maybe be a little “green” all at the same time! The average home spends about $1,900 a year on energy costs. But you can lower your energy bills and help save the environment at the same time! These tips are designed to help you choose effective ways to reduce your energy bills. Be a speedy chef. • Nothing is more energy efficient for cooking than your microwave.

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Stone: An Architect's Perspective - New England Stone Walls, An American Stonehenge

Stone World

'In this blog, architect Stephen B. Chambers of Dallas, TX, offers his insight on the use of stone in architecture at sites around the world.

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Cupboards Kitchen and Bath: Faucet Love - Webert Arcobaleno

Discerning Design

'Tuesday, June 12, 2012. Faucet Love - Webert Arcobaleno. I love innovation. I also love when innovation allows for multiple users a different experience. With the recent push for universal design and helping homeowners age gracefully in their homes, innovation has come in many shapes and in the case of the Webert Arcobaleno , colors. The Arcobaleno is an LED faucet that shows(literally) users the temperature of the water theyre about to use.

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