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Avente Tile Talk: Affordable Luxury with Hand-Painted Field Tiles

Tile Talk

Affordable Luxury with Hand-Painted Field Tiles. Enjoy Long-Lasting, Affordable Luxury with Hand-Painted Ceramic Tiles. In essence, field tile refers to a solid color tile. The wonderful translucent colors are hand-painted onto softly domed "pillow-like" tiles. Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Image via Lonny Magazine.

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Big Trends from KBIS Part II

Kitchens for Living

This is designed to replace a standard 60″X32″ shower/tub to allow aging in place without moving walls. Brizo introduced its new Rook collection for the bath, with a subtle reference to chess. It brings art to the bathroom in a limited series of hand-painted freestanding bathtubs, each one signed by the artist.

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Graphic Standards for Architectural Cabinetry

Life of an Architect

In our every expanding desire to have our drawings look a particular way ( while at the same time conveying the sort of information that we believe will ultimately lead to a better built product ), today we are going to be turning our attention to cabinetry. It was also during this time that I became intimately familiar with AWI standards.

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Avente Tile Talk: New Arabesque Pattern Designs in Cement Tile

Tile Talk

It refers to an implied sense of texture or depth created through the use of artistic elements of line, shading and color. While pattern refers to recurring visual events or motifs, they can exhibit visual texture, as well as true texture. Texture refers to the tactile quality of the surface - what you feel when you touch the tile.

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Avente Tile Talk: Cement Tile is Our Life

Tile Talk

For more than a decade, our company has been dedicated to providing cement tile products that are at the forefront of their class. At Avente Tile, we know that continually finding unique cement tile products and offering them at a great value ensures not only our success, but they must also meet or exceed your design goals.

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Avente Tile Talk: Understanding Cement Tile Bullnose Trim or Molding

Tile Talk

First, there are no industry standards and this results in numerous colloquial terms used to identify the same type of finished edge. For instance, the terms " surface bullnose " and " single bullnose " refer to the same transition on a finished edge. Remember that there is no specific standard for right and left hand bullnose pieces.

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Avente Tile Talk: Islamic Star Patterns in Tile Design

Tile Talk

These motifs utilize what is referred to as the n -fold rotational symmetry, where n represents a range of whole numbers from 3 to 100. These star polygons were not limited only to the painted figure. This technique evolved to include painted pictures on plain tiles which were then glazed and fired afterwards. design standards.

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