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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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Handcrafted Zellige Tile Collection Celebrates Authentic Moroccan Artistry

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Skilled artisans in Fez, Morocco use local clays fired in kilns fueled by olive pits to create these tiles, which are then finished with an enamel glaze. The square Zellige tiles are best used in applications such as shower walls, backsplashes, and accent walls, while the rectangular Bejmat tiles may also be used on light-traffic floors.

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Granada Tile’s Fez Cement Tile Makes A Bathroom Pop

Granada Tile

In this Kalorama row house in Washington DC, seen on Houzz , Granada Tile Company’s Fez cement tile in black and white is stunning, modern and quite dramatic used floor to ceiling for the bathroom floor tile, the bathroom wall tile and the shower stall tile. Can you say Fez-tastic?

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The Benefits of Using Zellige Tiles

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Unlike machined tile, exquisite Zellige and Bejmat tiles by Villa Lagoon Tile are molded, cut, and glazed entirely by hand by skilled artisans in Fez, Morocco. Zellige can be installed outdoors as long as they are adhered to and appropriately grouted. The floor tile is our Vienna Frost. What is Zellige Tile?

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Handcrafted Zellige Tile Collection Celebrates Authentic Moroccan Artistry

Cement Style

Skilled artisans in Fez, Morocco use local clays fired in kilns fueled by olive pits to create these tiles, which are then finished with an enamel glaze. The square Zellige tiles are best used in applications such as shower walls, backsplashes, and accent walls, while the rectangular Bejmat tiles may also be used on light-traffic floors.

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Back to Basics: AC’s Ceramic Tile Collections

Architectural Ceramics

Grout is used to allow for this expansion and contraction. The strength and density of porcelain results in a higher PSI level, making it suitable for floor applications and commercial spaces. The Saadian Tombs in Marrakech, pictured above, show how glazed ceramic tile was used to cover the floors and walls. ″ x 9.5″

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Ceramic: Category reaps benefits of booming housing market

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While the pandemic caused uncertainty across the board in 2020, it became clear in the year that followed that flooring would get a lift from the otherwise adverse event. MSI’s Arterra porcelain pavers feature Zero-slip, a proprietary technology providing exceptional slip resistance for wet and dry flooring.