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Summer Blockbusters: New AC Tile Collections

Architectural Ceramics

Lights, camera, action! Just like movies released this time of year hope to be the blockbuster hit of the summer, Architectural Ceramics recently launched a few new tile collections that we hope will be a hit among clients like you. From drama and romance, to action and comedy, the movie industry and AC have something for everyone. Check out our main features, along with a sneak peak at other collections coming to an Architectural Ceramics showroom near you: Adele.

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‘Charlie’s Angels’ Actress Lucy Liu Is Selling Her Los Angeles Zen Craftsman House

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

You know her from the “Charlie’s Angels” movies and the TV show “Elementary.” Actress Lucy Liu has listed her Craftsman home in Fryman Canyon, Studio City, California. She’s owned it for 16 years: a lifetime in Los Angeles. We understand why she’s kept it so long — it’s central to the movie studios, yet it’s located in a private country setting.

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Current Tile Trends

United Tile's Blog

It’s no secret that tile is starting to take center stage in design. If you look at Houzz, Pinterest, and Instagram, you know what we’re talking about! From decorative patterns to interesting shapes and textures, tile is being used to make a statement of art and beauty rather than pure function. With advancing technology there are more options than ever before, which means it might be time to re-think that plain white subway tile.

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Doha Diapason

Diary of a Tile Addict

The Mondrian Doha by SWA featuring tiles by FMG Fabbrica Marmi e Graniti. The Mondrian Doha, a 24-storey skyscraper containing apartments and a luxury hotel with 270 rooms and suites, has opened its doors. Six years of work by SWA , South West Architecture, went into this complex structure with its design inspired by the falcon, a great tradition in the Persian Gulf, featuring amazing ceramic decorations by?

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Ceramic: Positive factors fuel eight-year winning streak

Floor Covering News

June 26-July 2, 2018: Volume 34, Issue 1 By Ken Ryan The U.S. ceramic tile industry registered its eighth consecutive year of growth in 2017, buoyed largely by.

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Which Architectural Style Is Right for You?

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

Planning to build a home may leave you equal parts excited and overwhelmed. Building means making hundreds of choices on the way to your move-in date. The first, of course, is the type of home you’ll build. Architectural style is almost as unique as the families that live within the home, so it’s a deeply personal decision. Good design is the combination of two factors: aesthetics and function.

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The First Ever CTI Challenge - Coverings 2018

Ceramic Tile Education Foundation

Did you have a chance to witness the first ever CTI Challenge ? It took place during Coverings 2018 in the Installation Experience space, pitting two intensely passionate Certified Tile Installer teams to complete an ambitious installation over three days. The installation had to meet tile industry standards and guidelines. Here's a recap.

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Touch of Color donates carpet tile to Habitat for Humanity

Floor Covering News

Harrisburg, Pa.—Touch of Color Flooring, headquartered here, recently reached out to the local team at Habitat for Humanity ReStore to make a donation of over 14,590 square feet of carpet.

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Summer Dreaming: Tour Shakira’s Miami Beach Estate for Sale

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

Shakira, famous for her songs “Hips Don’t Lie” and “Chantaje,” is selling her six-bedroom Miami Beach home for $11.648 million. Touches of her Middle Eastern heritage, like a hookah lounge, add bohemian chic to the minimalist contemporary style of the home. Originally built in 1951, it’s located on a half-acre estate on Miami Beach’s Biscayne Bay.

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Top 50 Ceramic Industry News Stories of 2017-2018

Ceramic Industry Magazine

Below are the year’s most-viewed news stories on the Ceramic Industry website (posted and viewed between July 1, 2017, and June 30, 2018).

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10 Top Tips for Healthier Kitchen Add-ons – Anniversary Post

JG Kitchens

Here’s the second of my 10th Anniversary celebration, and one of my favorite topics. Here are some simple ways to enhance your kitchen for healthier meal prep, without remodeling it. Last week, we looked at 10 Top Tips for Outdoor Living. This week, we’re going indoors for 10 Top Tips for Healthier Kitchen Add-ons. I hope you enjoy! Make your storage more accessible with a blind corner swing-out.

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Patcraft introduces AdMix Encore

Floor Covering News

Cartersville, Ga.—Patcraft is expanding the company’s collection of terrazzo visuals with its newest resilient product introduction, AdMix Encore, now available. Offered in 36″ and 12″ square tiles and 24 colors, AdMix Encore features.

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Check out Oprah’s New Orcas Island Getaway

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

Variety has done some super sleuthing to discover that Oprah Winfrey just spent $8.275 million on a private estate on Orcas Island, Washington. Orcas Island is between Seattle and Vancouver in the San Juan Islands archipelago. Oprah’s new compound, named Madroneagle Estate by the seller, features two waterfront parcels totaling 43 acres and 3,000 feet of shoreline.

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Kyocera’s New Ceramic Microelectronic Packages Plant is Top News

Ceramic Industry Magazine

Does your company produce ceramics for electronics applications? I’d love to hear from you!

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Impressive Home Offices That Make You Want To Be More Productive

Trendir Magazine

Home offices have recently become extremely popular due to more people wanting a space where they can become creative and create new ideas. Since these spaces tend to be simple and straight to the point they have a tendency to sometimes feel a bit “boring” and even “impersonal” to fix that you want to cater to your personal style and create a unique space.

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Professional Tips for Restoring Furniture After a Flood

Kitchen and Residential Design

Floods can be one of the most unpredictable natural disasters out there, taking over your home and everything in it, sometimes without the slightest warning. Even if you successfully save yourself and your family, they still wreak havoc in people’s lives because the damage floods can leave behind is often extensive and irreparable. As we all know, furniture can be expensive, especially whole rooms of it, and that’s why you’ve got to know how to recover your furniture if ever subjected to a flood

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10 Easy Summer Decorating Ideas

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

Summer decorating is a breeze with the Lejeune 4-piece sofa set. Image: Birch Lane We hope you like the products we recommend. Just so you are aware, Freshome may collect a share of sales from the links on this page. Summer decorating is so much fun — it’s a great excuse to update your decor. Summer activities can take you inside and out this season, and that means you’ll have plenty of spaces to decorate.

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Increasing Worldwide Construction to Benefit Self-Cleaning Glass Market

Ceramic Industry Magazine

The global self-cleaning glass market is projected to grow from an estimated $99.1 million in 2018 to $122.7 million by 2023, increasing at a CAGR of 4.4%.

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Fabulous Ways To Incorporate Purple In Your Home

Trendir Magazine

The color purple has recently become the IT hue to use, not only is it the color of the year, but it’s royal, it’s chic, it’s feminine, it’s eclectic and has become a trending color to use in your home. Unlike popular belief, purple is an extremely versatile color, yet it as a bad reputation due to many not knowing how to incorporate it into the home.

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8 Appliances That Are Driving Up Your Electricity Costs

Kitchen and Residential Design

We use them every day to wash our clothes, cool our houses, and cook our food. Appliances. And for all that they do for us, operating them can come at a heavy cost. While the frequency and duration of their use largely dictates their expense, some appliances just happen to require more energy than others. These devices are not confined to one area and located all around homes, both in places that can be seen and in other that cannot.

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20 Funky Lighting Ideas for a Unique Space

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

If you’re looking to create a unique space that fully expresses your artsy side, look into fun lighting creations. Lighting has become something of an art form over the years. From colored accents to unexpected light placement to abstract designs, there’s sure to be a style that allows you to express your inventive side. Take a look below for some of the top funky lighting ideas to help breathe some creativity into your space.

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Scoring flooring: Industry stats for 2017

Floor Covering News

June 26-July 2, 2018: Volume 34, Issue 1 The flooring industry in 2017 continued its prolonged climb back from the economic slump that plagued the United States from 20072010, led.

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Trendy Captivating Design Styles To Try Right Now

Trendir Magazine

In previous years we have seen an increase in minimalist décor, so much so that many homeowners have decided to clear out the space and only use necessary decorative pieces. However, as we near the end of the year it is time to take a look at trendy captivating design styles that are currently taking over not only home décor, but you may want to try right now in your space.

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Coal Waste Used to Engineer Sustainable Concrete

The A to Z of Building

Scientists from the Washington State University (WSU) have developed a sustainable substitute to traditional concrete using coal fly ash, which is a waste product of coal-based electricity generation.

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These Are the Top Color Mistakes That Everyone Makes (And How to Fix Them)

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

If we’re being honest, there’s a lot more to choosing and combining colors than meets the eye. There are so many different shades and hues, it’s no wonder that sometimes people misstep and choose the wrong one. That said, there are a few common color mistakes that designers see over and over again. Keep reading to see what they are.

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Carpet: Hard surface onslaught keeps growth in check

Floor Covering News

June 26/July 2, 2018: Volume 34, Issue 1 By Ken Ryan The uphill battle against unrelenting growth in hard surfaces across multiple segments kept the U.S. carpet market in check.

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Luxurious Modern Outdoor Space Ideas

Trendir Magazine

Whether you have a small outdoor space or a large one the key is decorating the area to your liking by creating a luxurious space that allows you to feel as if you have your very own piece of paradise every time you step outdoors. Here are luxury outdoor spaces with bold colors, comfy furniture and fun designs that bring a little slice of vacation right to your home.

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Kyocera Honored by Japan’s METI for Artificial Hip Joint Technology

Ceramic Industry Magazine

Kyocera Corp.’s Aquala® technology received Japan’s Prize of the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) during the 2018 National Invention Awards held recently in Tokyo by the Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation (JIII).

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How to Deal with Construction Delays

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

There you are, staying on schedule and getting ready to move into your new home when boom: construction delays. Suddenly your perfect schedule seems more like a general guideline and it causes a ripple effect throughout your build. How do you get back on track? Building a new home can definitely be stressful, especially when your schedule starts to slip.

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RevWood—what’s it all about?

Floor Covering News

A whole new spin on traditional wood flooring By Reginald Tucker A revolutionary engineered flooring product that combines the look and feel of authentic wood with the tenacity of.

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Kitchen Efficiency

The Perfect Bath

My former kitchen had been unchanged for decades. It was designed and built on site when I knew very little about kitchens. Over time, I improved the flow of the space by moving certain things around: The pots went under the cooktop, the china shifted closer to the dishwasher, and the dry food and spices relocated to any available space that remained.

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SCHENCK PROCESS: Vertical Cartridge Filter for Industrial Dust Collection

Ceramic Industry Magazine

Schenck Process has introduced its new vertical cartridge filter (VCF) that reportedly removes industrial dust while incorporating a unique design for handling medium to high air volumes.

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Highlights From the 4 Winners of the 2018 Young Talent Architecture Award

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

The four winners of the 2018 Young Talent Architecture Award. Each year, the Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe organize the Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA). The goal of the award is to highlight some of the most talented recent graduates in the fields of Architecture, Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture. This year, four standout innovators who are making their mark on a wide variety of landscapes received the YTAA.

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Havwoods presents high performance underlayments

Floor Covering News

New York, N.Y.—Havwoods International, a UK-based hardwood flooring supplier, is now providing options to absorb, block, break and isolate sound with three different underlayment products—Provent underlay, Unda-Tech Silver Backed underlay.

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Novel Peat Material Could be Used to 3D Print Houses

The A to Z of Building

Tartu researchers have developed a unique material, which could make rapid and cost-effective 3D-printing of energy-efficient buildings from oil shale ash and milled peat a reality. Scientists from.

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Caster Named Chairman of Morgan Advanced Materials Board of Directors as Shilston Retires

Ceramic Industry Magazine

The board of directors of Morgan Advanced Materials has announced that, after serving on the board for six years, Andrew Shilston intends to step down as chairman and retire from the board at the end of 2018.

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4 Bar Cart Essentials: Glasses, Decanters and More

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

Fill your bar cart with these four essentials. Image: Homepolish We hope you like the products we recommend. Just so you are aware, Freshome may collect a share of sales from the links on this page. You’ve finally found the perfect bar cart. You know it’s the ideal piece to fill out that corner and make your home or apartment look party-ready.

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