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Cement floor tiles provide unparalleled visual appeal. As a unique and personal flooring choice, the variety of colors and patterns of cement tiles can provide your kitchen, powder room, entry or dining room floor with a look that not only speaks to you, but is also a reflection of your decorative taste. We're excited to show you new cement tile floor patterns and borders with colors our customers chose. As you'll soon see below, these tiles are designed to work effortlessly together.   Cement floor tiles are often inset into stone or cut, poured concrete. It's a great way to...

Do you love the rich colors and unique patterns of encaustic cement tile? Do you also like the bright colors and stylized patterns found in traditional Spanish tile? Not sure how to use both of them in the same design or room with creating garish results? One of our customers combined both styles and materials when she recently designed the living room of her new contemporary home. We'll show you how our customer did it, and share a few tips on how to use both patterned Spanish ceramic tiles and cement tiles effortlessly.Note: This post is the second on the...

In the second part of this series, Susan Mussi, author of Ceramic Dictionary, continues to offer her expertise on Majolica with a focus on technique in this edition. If you missed her previous post, A Brief History of Hand-Painted Majolica Tile, read it first. If you find yourself in Barcelona, Spain make sure to visit her studio and shop, BenSu Ceramics.   Majolica, a Spanish term, is a lead and tin glaze that creates an opaque white surface that can be painted. The process consists of first firing the clay to become earthenware and then applying tin enamel that forms...

We're thrilled to have a guest post today written by Susan Mussi, author of Ceramic Dictionary from Barcelona, Spain. If you're lucky, you may even find her hand-decorating tiles using the Majolica Method in her tile studio/shop, BenSu Ceramics. Pottery has always been popular in Spain, as evident with existence of earthenware pottery for thousands of years. During the years the Arabs were in Spain, they brought with them the Majolica method of decorating pottery, as well as to create beautiful tile and ceramics. Today's post provides a brief history of Majolica, a method of hand-painting or glazing ceramic tile. ...

Our go-to girl for design, Lisa M. Smith, shows How to get the most from decorative tile. Decorative tile or patterned tile are sometimes called deco tiles. Because deco tiles have a distinct design motif on each tile they are different them from plain, solid color, or field tile. Lisa is a real live designer and acrylic artist. Her motto is do it once, do it right. Interior design is a vocation not a hobby, finish a room and move on. Her fun and informative interior design blog is Decor Girl and she tweets design wisdom at @TheDecorGirl. Note: This...