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Avente Tile provided the hand-painted Spanish tile that add charm and color to the kitchen and powder room of this home in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The home is featured in the March 2016 print issue of Canadian Homes and Cottages. The home's warm design was completed by Ines Haml, Designer and Principal of The Sky is the Limit Interior Design Concepts.  Ines' keen eye created the homes entire design that Homes and Cottages dubs a Sunny Disposition in this article. All of us here at Avente Tile couldn't agree more. Thank you to Ines for sharing this article and...

Last week we looked at how Cement Tile Provides a French Bistro with a Classic Look. The bistro's owner, Sally Kane, used fresh, cool colors that honor the classic Fleur-de-Lis pattern but avoids following slavish tradition. This week, Sally invites us back to her French-inspired restaurant, The Coronet. The encaustic tiles are fun and have a bit of sas! She mixes it up using a bold, geometric pattern in the bathroom that is eye-catching and still classy.    Encaustic cement tiles have an amazing ability to adapt. Here a common color palette keeps the theme. However, commercial spaces can be...

Cement tiles provide dramatic results for commercial spaces while offering design flexibility. The Coronet, a French-style Bistro in Tucson, Arizona, chose a classic Fleur-de-Lis pattern evocative of an era. Sally Kane, the bistro's owner, used an updated color palette in cool greens to achieve an eye-catching effect and updated look. The pattern is evocative of an era; but, the color choices are clearly fresh.    While working with Sally on the design, she explained that, "The Coronet will be a French-style bistro. But, don't box me in. It will honor that style but not slavishly follow the tradition!" The traditional...

Explore Cuban cement tile patterns from the lens of a friend's recent trip to this island. The images provide sensational inspiration that showcase the possibilities of Cuban tile patterns. During the early 1900's, colorful, patterned cement tiles were so common on the island of Cuba, they became know as Cuban Tiles.    Cuban Tile Patterns Last week, we drew our cement tile pattern inspiration from ancient Roman mosaics and showed how designs from antiquity can be used in Creating Custom Cement Tile Patterns. Today we'll share photos from a friend's recent visit to Cuba. The popularity of Cuban tile flooring...

Curious what it takes to create a custom cement tile pattern? See how you can use ancient patterns and mosaics for inspiration to create a new pattern for cement tile. Once you have the concept for the cement tile pattern or design, Avente Tile can provide expert design modeling and concepts for the pattern. Or, we can provide layout services to ensure the pattern is installed perfectly!    One of the best places to look for design inspiration is history. History and design repeat themselves. Roman and Greek architecture, with its classical geometry, is a wonderful place to draw inspiration...