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This Honey Onyx Solid Polished Natural Field Tile is one of those riveting tiles which just proves there is apparently no limit in how beautiful one can make things, given time and budget.  Every so often, I run across a tile I am absolutely dying to see installed. This would be one of those. The depth of the visual crystallization and the smooth solid finish make an absolutely remarkably beautiful tile – very much a competitor in sheer beauty to the finest marbles.

There is something shimmering inside this tile – almost as if it were literally bouncing in front of us, throwing off the most gorgeous highlights and secret qualities. The sunny disposition of the color itself also serve to brighten any room where used – from bathroom to kitchen. Complex yet deep and gorgeous, the richness of this tile is its prime selling point – and, of course, its general plain beauty. Nature provides remarkable choices in our tile selections and this one is near the top of that range for me. Just an excellent-looking piece. The price listed here is for a group of 5 tiles, 12″ sqaure – a square foot each – making them somewhere around 7 bucks apiece. That’s actually a good deal.

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Remember the adhesive mirror tiles? Well, it’s not just on the walls that you can peel and stick tiles. If you have a clean hard floor surface, you can easily turn it into a wall-to-wall carpeting. Emphasis here being on “ease”:

Anyone can do this simple DIY project.

No need for messing around with glue or moving huge cumbersome carpets and properly fitting them into a room. Nope. These carpet tiles are so much easier. Just work on your floor, one square at a time, easily peeling off the back of these tiles and fitting them one next to the other. It just doesn’t get much easier than this.

It’s creative too. With several colors available, allowing you to create carpeted patterns, you can create checkered floors with a warm touch. Perfect for renovating children’s room and adding a unique touch of your own.

These tiles come in packs of 12 pieces, each 12 by 12 inches. They are available here on Amazon, so no need to start looking for them at the shops. Simply order them and enjoy the quality fast service they provide to get these tiles right to your doorstep.

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A tile mural can be exquisite work of art. More than just decorating a wall, it can turn it into the focal point of an entire room or patio.

Here’s a wonderful example of a tile mural designed by Mexican artist Dolores Hidalgo.  Note the unique frame, as well as the detailed scenic image at the center. If you order this from Amazon, only then does the artist begin to produce your own unique hand painted copy – your own one-of-a-kind work of art.

Painted in its entirety on 63 tiles, each measuring 10×10 cm (or 4″ x 4″), it’s the kind of mural that will turn any wall into a magnificent and inspirational display area. The fact that it’s painted on tiles adds to the artistic quality, with the clear grid of squares breaking the country scene it, creating quite an extraordinary effect.

So, now you have a way to get your own original wall mural by a well-known artist. Instead of inviting an artist over and spending thousands of dollars, you can own this piece of art, by ordering the tiles and having them sent to you after the picture is painted.

If you want to own one of these tiled murals, click here to read more about how to contact the artist via Amazon – a brand name you can trust.

Mirrors are a popular home decor element. They’re sleek, modern looking and can even enhance a room, making it seem larger than it is. Sometimes though, you want to avoid huge unbroken surfaces of shiny mirrors, and this is where these mirror tiles come in handy.

They are tiles in shape, but not in terms of functionality – you need to attach them to clean smooth surfaces, so you won’t be tiling a wall with them in the sense usually referred to on our blog. 4 inches by 4, they can enhance your regular tiles, and used cleverly, they can create some interesting patterns in a room. A classic for the bathroom, these come in sets of twenty and can also be used elsewhere in the house, on doors and elsewhere as well.

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We use bathroom wall tiles as a category unique to bathrooms themselves.  All bathrooms run the intense rick of collecting germs, smells and other odious characteristics.  The fact is, we use tiles in bathrooms to relieve all this. Naturally, bathrooms also contain and hoard all the condensation from baths and showers and sink washing as well We shut the doors and trap all that amazing amount of moisture, providing not only a Petri Dish for bacteria but also damaging any porous surface such as sheet rock or wood.  These constructions will rot over time from the constancy of the water.

Meanwhile, tiles walls suffer from no such ailment.  Certainly, grouting needs to be replaced or freshened up in due time for literally everyone. But the tiles themselves clean remarkably easy and they are so nonporous that they also serve to insulate. Needless to say, their hardness and impermeability make them last for a much longer period of time as well.
The other true benefit of bathroom wall tiles are the simple or even complex beauty they offer. Children delight in the colorful tiles of primary colors and even the most sophisticated adults can have their breath taken away looking at some of the more modern tile options.  It has truly bloomed, the entire bathroom wall tiles area, into an amazing array of colorful, unique and simply gorgeous possibilities.
Natural marble light floor tiles have all those charateristics we look for in a marble product:   a veiny, multicolored look, speckled with granite-like inbedded splashes of color and a semi-tranluscent sheen. Marble has been used for centuries as a flooring product for the very most elegant places.  The glamor and sheer beauty of marble override some of its detriments and offer a strikingly gorgeous flooring solution that pleases absolutely everyone with its breathtaking charm.
However, as mentioned marble has a detriment or two.  It is not nearly as hard a material as Travertine, for example, and many other natural stone flooring tiles.  There is a reason outside of it’s gorgeous color that is has served well as a scupltor’s medium: it very simply cuts easier than many other materials.  Marble also has issues with standing water and anything possessing a level of acidity which often weakens it. It is pourous enough to collect the acidic waters and chemicals and certainly soft enough to break down over time.
Nevertheless, marble remains the “summa cum laude” of flooring beauty, simply because of its sheer beauty.  And it does indeed have that.  Tightly-veined, impressively colored, seemingly semi-transparent, marble can be an absolutely breath-taking material to use on flooring in a residence where constant traffic is less than in a commerical application and where the upkeep on it can be safely assumed. Marble light floor tiles are very easy to install as well, something I certainly care about.  The materials on the slick, clear surface wipe up perfectly and owing to the expense, they typically get cut to exactly the specificiations and installer wants most.  By residential, not commerical standards, marble holds up as well as any flooring tile.
Kitchen wall tiles offer us another wide array of unique possibilities in the functional and aesthetic senses.  Functionally, much the same as bathroom tiles, almost all choices, particularly the ceramics, metals and glass ones, offer an easily cleaned surface.  But not only that, they also offer a much more protective layer over what is behind and of what composes the walls of a kitchen.  Grease splashes, too much heat and a resistance to easily cracking or scratching make them a much more durable surface than almost any other wall treatment.
The aesthetic front has opened up dramatically.  Metal tiles give a chic, urbane sheen to a place, offering a simple yet arresting metallic and reflective light to an otherwise boring and functional placement.  Ceramics, of course, and glass both offer uncommon opportunities to showcase the room.  Complex and interesting murals are available, many hand-painted and, surprisingly, many of the best still photographs of Nature and civilization are now rendered, intact and brightly-focused, on kitchen walls.  The range of choices has become almost ludicrously large and wide.  And settling on a theme and design may occupy quite a bit of time in preparation for the wall itself.  Nevertheless, kitchen wall tiles have an awful lot to recommend them.

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