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Creating Custom Designs with Homemade, Handpainted Terracotta Tiles

Architectural Ceramics

Architectural Ceramics is helping bring homemade, handpainted terracotta tiles to the DC Metro area and invites you to come into one of our showrooms to check it out! Here’s a step-by-step guide to customized terracotta tile : Pick a color. A sales designer can show you each option, including new or added colors.

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Celebrating Distinctions in Mexican History and Tile

Architectural Ceramics

Handpainted Terracotta Tile, like our Duquesa Collection offers a fresh take on a decades-long tile tradition. Many contemporary terracotta tiles , like our Duquesa Collection pictured above, implement hand-painting techniques as well. Mexico’s independence doesn’t come however, until two decades later. Hasta pronto!

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April Showers Bring May Flowers

Architectural Ceramics

Don’t hesitate to visit one of our DC-metro area showrooms locations to talk with a design and sales associate about your options. The pale celadon or sage green paint color on the vertical walls, for example, is close in color and hue to the backsplash and tub tile used on the walls. who specializes in painted cement tile.

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What tile should I pick if I don’t know my cabinets or counter yet?

Architectural Ceramics

Personally I love hand-molded, hand painted, terracotta tiles and I have seen so many images where they just look fabulous, but a traditional terracotta tile is not something that would look good in my swanky little contemporary monochromatic cool-colored condo and they are pricey considering the value of my property.

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Surfaces 2023: Tile emulates home trends

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The company also continued to highlight its “Shop By Look” wall, which features QR codes to help guide consumers through the sale. All the terracottas and oranges, warmer colors, are coming back. Exhale, and its sister collection, Inhale, for example, focus on the handmade, rustic look while bringing trending colorways as well.

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Your Room’s Focal Point: The Fireplace

Architectural Ceramics

The product above is from our hand-painted terracotta Tabarka collection. Your sales consultant will be a great resource when selecting the material. Anatomy of the Fireplace. The fireplace consists of 3 core parts, plus the mantel. Each area provides its own function and has different requirements. .

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Portugal: tile tradition and technology

Diary of a Tile Addict

In 2021, sales to the UK reached Euro 71.7 On the wall adjacent to the canal, there is a new tiled panel measuring 57metres by 3metres, that comprises 5,616 hand-painted tiles. Currently the UK is Portugal’s fifth largest export market after France, Spain, the USA, and Germany. This grew by 6.4% over the next 12 months, to Euro 76.3