Ceramic Tile Design Ideas — Residential

Pool Tile with Modular Pattern Creates Soothing Fountain

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Pool Tile with Modular Pattern Creates Soothing Fountain

Modular patterns in a single turquoise color palette create a soothing fountain. Our porcelain Pool Tile provide the perfect colors for pools, fountains, and water features. You'll find colors that range from azure and turquoise to deep, saturated colors like cobalt blue. These wonderful shades of blue and aqua evoke the calm and serenity of water. They cam also be accented with bright, jewel-tone colors, such as reds, yellows and oranges from our Yucatan Field Tiles. Consider using our Yucatan Trim and Molding for various molding and trim options.   Use Tile Formats to Add Interest Using the same color...

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Create Old World Charm with Hand Painted Portuguese Tile

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Create Old World Charm with Hand Painted Portuguese Tile

Hand painted tiles, with their color variation, and traditional colors and patterns add rustic elegance and warmth to this kitchen located in California's Central Valley.

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Geometrical Circle Tile Adds Modern Twist to Kitchen Backsplash

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Geometrical Circle Tile Adds Modern Twist to Kitchen Backsplash

With a hat tip to our two popular cement tile patterns, our Geo 10 and Traditional Anillos, our Geometrical Ceramic tile collection has already made a place for itself in this kitchen's backsplash. The rich, vivid glazes in our latest ceramic tile collection are derived from our Malibu Ceramic Field Tile palette. In addition to easily designing a space, the flexibility in the Geometrical Ceramic Tile line lies in its ability to pair and complement the patterns with colors from the more than 50 available glazes from our Malibu Field Tile collection. To further make the process effortless, all the...

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Spanish Revival Look with Malibu Decorative Tiles

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Spanish Revival Look with Malibu Decorative Tiles

Create a timeless look that pays homage to Spanish Revival design with our Malibu Decorative tiles. With a beautiful mix of colors and time-tested patterns, these tiles inspired by Spanish Revival architecture common to Los Angeles, California in the 1920's and 1930's. This installation offers a lot of visual impact by using different patterns and colorways on each stair riser.  Our line of hand-painted Malibu Decorative Tiles pay homage to the Malibu and Catalina Potteries of California of the 1920s with classic motifs and colors. Malibu decorative tiles are created using the cuerda seca or "lost wax" technique that produces deep, saturated colors that keep...

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Malibu Glazed Tile & Normandy Cream: An Eye-Catching Pair

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Malibu Glazed Tile & Normandy Cream: An Eye-Catching Pair

The brightly colored glazed Malibu Yerba Buena ceramic tiles add just the right balance of eye-pleasing design and interest when they are coupled with our Rustic Paver collection (shown here in Normandy Cream). Our collection of hand-painted Malibu Ceramic Tiles are an homage to the Malibu and Catalina Potteries of California of the 1920s with their classic patterns and colorways. These tiles are created using the cuerda seca (dry cord) technique that produces deep, rich colors from the pooled glazes. Perfect for all indoor applications, this collection is also suitable for outdoor installations, such as stair risers, pools, fountains. However,...

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