Forgotten blog

Believe it or not, I had forgotten I started a blog about tile! I wonder how many abandoned blogs are out there? Millions. Doesn't matter since I have no readers. However, I think I will keep posting for my own amusement.

Here's my own fireplace before and after. We did the very messy demo ourselves but had a pro install the tile. One thing I have learned about tiling...I'm not that good, and I wanted the fireplace to be perfect.

The ugly 70's rock had a hearth that ran the full width of the room with a full width mantel. We replace the wood stove with a pellet stove and shortened the whole thing up . It's now covered in polished platinum slate, which I hope minimized the stove. A carpenter built the mantel. Because the fireplace has a door on the right (cut in after picture 1) and a blank wall on the left, it seems off balance. I am looking for bookshelves or something about door size to balance it out. Ideas?

Cool Funrnture

You can do so much more with tile than just putting it on the floor and walls.

Check out these fabulous mosaic projects। I found these in a tile trade publication and here's a link to the artist http://www.manonlisa.com

Let's Get Started

After reading home improvement and design blogs obsessively (I'm told) for the past two years, I decided to start my own about the subject I know the most about. In fact, I spend most days helping people pick out tile for their projects while ignoring my own. That's about to change as I make a few improvements to my own home. Pictures to follow. In the meantime, I will start with a couple of pictures from my friend's fabulous master bath completed last summer. (If the pictures are gone by the time you read this, that means she violently objected. I haven't actually asked her yet.)

She used a biscuit subway tile with green and taupe brown glass accents. That's 24x24 inch porcelain on the floor. This house is a remodeled mid-century ranch style in Northern California, and she chose classic yet contemporary tile. Love it!