Cawaps - Villa Lagoon tile - I like the colors a lot, but agree the floor and backsplash are too much together. And I love the 60's revival kitchen! Fun colors, and you can never go wrong with lava lamps!!

Pal - Delft tile - I really like that floor! I think most people would never go with a blue counter, but I think that's what makes this work.

Sochi, I think your "disaster" kitchen is anything but! I like the soft colors very much. Agree with Pal that a green blind would be nice. And that paramount tile for your kitchen is beautiful! Are you going to do it?

One more.

Floor: Marmoleum Real Concrete
Cabinet: Kraftmaid square recessed panel maple in onyx; Kraftmaid silver screen glass doors
Hardware: Chinese antique brass cabinet pulls; Plymouth pull from eknobsanpulls.com
Range and hood: Viking in golden mist
Counter: Silestone Capri Limestone
Backsplash: Villa Lagoon Monterey Collection Wave tile
Paint: Benjamin Moore Fairview Taupe
Table: Avalon from Crate and Barrel
Chairs: Thyra white dining chair from interiorexpress.com
Art: Left Overs Winter08 v.3 by Timohty Tompkins from 1stDibs.com
Lighting: Maxim Meridian umber bronze pendant light from LampsPlus.com

Ann Sacks June tile in amazonite and peacock topaz
soapstone counters
Plain & Fancy inset cabinets - Soho in Stony Bridge
Capital Culinarian range
Vent-a-Hood
toasted hickory planks
Floyd round dining table from zincdoor.com
West Elm curved leather dining chair in elephant
Robert Abbey Bling Collection convertiable chandelier from eurostylelighting.com
crystal satin nickel round knobs from bellacor.com
Blanco Silgranit sink
BM West Coast paint - It may be hard to see, but there are a number of blues in the tile. I liked this color best, but you could go lighter or more saturated depending on your taste.

Sochi Paramount: This kitchen has some of my favorite things (and I recognize many of yours as well). I have loved the paramount tile since I first saw it, especially the pattern/color that you show. It was one of my top contenders back when I was going to do a real remodel. That line of lighting fixtures is also a personal favorite, and I love it with the green and walnut. The artwork looks great with the other colors, and the chairs are very sexy.

Purplepansies June: I like the delicate, lace effect of the tile. I think the paint is a good match and I like the drama of the darker shade. I was looking at those chairs just yesterday at West Elm (in a different color) and thinking, "Hey, I could use those in one of my boards." They have nice lines.

Two versions of this one, I just couldn't manage not adding some red.

I think the addition of the red moves this from masculine ultra modern to slightly feminine gothic?? Not for the faint of heart at any rate. Different chairs would reduce the 'gothic' feel, but I thought these were fun. They were also the only chairs I found in the right shade of red. A good kitchen for one of the male vampires from True Blood perhaps?

Tile: Petali, Lithea
Counter: Eros Stellar Silestone
Cabinets: White Macassar from Real Wood Veneers, Treefrog
Faucet: Kohler Karbon in black
Light: Possini Euro Planet Chrome and Black Pendant Chandelier
Table: Alistir from GLAS
Chairs: not sure
Flooring: Concrete
Range: Smeg

Sochi Petali, Lithea: Of the two of these, I like the second one better. I don't think it is so much the masculine/femining thing; I just like red. I think that the femininity of the latter stems more from the style of the chairs (especially that they are tufted) than the color. The chairs in the first one look wicked uncomfortable to me.

You liked the Treefrog veneers, too, huh? Palimpsests finds the coolest sources. He used Chemetal laminates in a long-ago board, and they're so cool that I've used them a few times since.

I have that fixture saved somewhere from when we did animal prints (I did zebra; not sure if I used that fixture in the finished board but I looked at it), and the cabinet laminate really brings that back. I was thinking about those zebra boards anyway, because I'm also working on a B/W kitchen using a very different tile. I don't think mine is coming out gothic at all, though. There is, however, so much black that a lighting designer would be a "must" if you wanted to do it IRL.

I like the second one better, too, Sochi. I think the addition of the red is very dramatic. Love that veneer.

I like your last one, too, Cawaps. I'm just drawn to that palette; even with the black cabinets and table and bold tile, it feels "soft" to me. A big reason, I think, is the silver screen uppers that lighten the room and that wonderful paint color. Love the chandelier!

I promise this is the last of these Ann Sacks tiles! I just love them - probably because I could never afford them!

Ann Sacks tile - Grace 2 in peridot
Plain and fancy Novara Amanto Walnut cabinets
Walnut shelves instead of uppers here
Caesarstone Blizzard counters
Capital Culinarian range
russet hickory plank floor
Georgetown Dining Table from amishdirectfurniture.com
Lancaster chair from Crate and Barrel
Jamie Young drum pendent - zincdoor.com
Caura rug from CB2
Had to add in these fun salt and pepper shakers! Koziol Piep salt and pepper set - amazon.com

Purplepansies: Ann Sacks Grace 2 - I just love the Ann Sacks tiles too, there are at least a dozen I'd like to play with. Those salt and peppers are fantastic! The whole kitchen looks lovely, very elegant. Lots of wonderful walnut in this DAT.

Cawaps - yes, I love those tree frog veneers, they are fabulous. I was in a wood/lumber store a couple of weeks ago admiring all kinds of similar gorgeous veneers. DH had to drag me out. Palimpsest does find the greatest things!

Re: my Petali, Lithea kitchen, you would indeed need great lighting to pull it off. I imagine that kitchen in an open concept loft with lots of expansive windows too. I certainly could have used that kitchen in the animal prints DAT, it is very Zebra like.

Purplepansies, June tile: again, very elegant and lovely. The art you chose is perfect. It is a calm and sophisticated kitchen that is sparked alive by the wonderful tile. I think it is examples like this that may encourage your average Gardenwebber (like me) to not be afraid of bold, graphic tile.

Cawaps: Villa Lagoon Monteray Collection Wave - The backsplash, art and fixture are great together. A less modern black fixture would still work well too. I get a similar feel to Purplepansie's June tile - it is an elegant kitchen that could appeal to a wide audience, and it is really brought to life by the tile.

The red lava lamp kitchen is really fun. My 8 year old daughter has a lava lamp she just loves - I'll have to show her this kitchen.

Finally, regarding my Paramount kitchen, to your question Purplepansies, yes, I think we will do it. My only hesitation in ordering the tile is that I have never seen it in person. No one in my city or area carries it. My DH was away on a business trip recently, that city had a shop that carried the tile. They would loan a sample to us for 24 hours with a $500(!) deposit. Not very helpful at all, considering we live a four hour flight away. But I showed DH the olioboard and I think we're willing to make the leap.

Sochi, I have seen the Paramount tile in person (Walker Zanger showroom nearby), and it is fabulous. If you are looking at the green (clover), it reads a bit less yellow in real life than in the image you snipped. This color swatch reads closer to the real thing (on my monitor, at least).

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The other thing to keep in mind is how very big this tile is at 15x15. It isn't something you want to pick for in between your counter and uppers (not a problem in your space as I recall)

Did you know your Paramount kitchen on this thread is already showing up on a Google search for "Studio Moderne Paramount"?

Thanks Cawaps, the swatch you show does seem quite a bit greener, which is okay. I just did a search an hour or so ago and saw my mood board, so funny.

I do think that it may be too big now (I just posted a separate thread on this). I only have 18" between my counter and the shelves. Unless I went all the way to the ceiling, but this would mess with my pictures. Darn, just when I thought I had made a decision...

This is a "softer," much more feminine kitchen. I really like this tile and it's more quiet, subtle pattern. I hope the colors look to you like I see them on my monitor - pale green that seems to go very well with these painted cabinets.

Danse Lucido tile from Artistic Tile
Merillat cabinets - Ladera maple door in willow
walnut counters
Bertazzoni range
Frigidaire hood
Blanco silgranit sink
bridge faucet was a google image, I couldn't find the brand
Hickory floors
Round walnut veneer dining table from centuryfurniture.com
Parson chairs from Home Decorator's
Brentwood pewter chandelier - laylagrace.com
paint is a brand called Taubman's (?) - color is sagebrush
Richelieu 3.5" brushed nickel cabinet pulls from lowes.com

Oh I do so love this thread. It surprised me how many tiles and tile mfrs I recognized. I bit the bullet last week and ordered a bold patterned tile (kjp) but am second guessing myself and gazing wistfully at these submissions and wishing I'd seen this thread before I ordered anything at all for the kitchen...

For me, the bold tile is sleight of hand, a conjurer's trick. I like my elements individually but somehow, together, they do not amount to anything special. The right tile (contrast in my case) seems to make all the difference.

These are beautiful kitchens!

purple pansies, I love your latest post, very calm and soothing.

Sochi -While not for me. I reaally like your black and red.

This design is centered around the Ann Sacks Paccha floor tile in icicle, milk, and smoke. It may be difficult to see the pattern, but each encaustic tile has several colors.

Petrified Wood tile from Ann Sacks
Haiku Silestone
Krafmaid Cabinets in Maple Canvas
Whirlpool oven in Biscuit
Selvaggio Linea mosaic from Ann Sacks (stone and metal)
Farrow and Ball Slipper Satin wallcolor
Visual Comfort alabaster fixture
Leather chairs and tessellated Bone table, thru 1st Dibs
Carini Lang "Strata" rug
Curtis Jere "Raindrops" sculpture, thru 1st dibs
DuVerre Lotus knob

I think all of these latest contributions work. I particularly like the second to last post, the blue with the Pacca floor tile.

Purplepansies Danse Lucido: I love the gray-greens with the dark browns, and the floral print is a nice feminine touch. I'm not entirely sold on stainless with the green (but then I appear to be the sole member of the don't care for stainless club).

Pricklypearcactus Paccha: This kitchen has a lot of the OTK hallmarks (inset Shaker, soapstone, schoolhouse pendants) but you've totally changed it up. I love the blues and the cottagey chair. If the Paccha is the floor tile, are the white hexagonal tiles the backsplash?

Palimpsest Petrified Wood: All the colors and materials work really well together. The cabinets and wallpaper read slightly pinkish on my monitor, which I don't normally see as a plus, but the whole look is very sophisticated.

This is the last iron I had in the fire. It's pretty eclectic, and by the end I was feeling that it wanted to be Hollywood Regency (I think it was when I put the deco fixture over the Regency table with the modern chairs and the zebra skin mirror on the wall), but it didn't come from me trying to do Hollywood Regency at all. I'll let y'all be the judges of whether it works.

Don't know if anyone is still doing these, but I have one or two left.

Crown Point cabinets
soapstone counters
Mission Tile West - cement tiles from Nicaragua
Wolf range
Vent-a-Hood
natural hickory planks
Marchella Dining Table - Pier One
Hampton 3 piece upholstered set - ballarddesigns.com
Dimensions pendant by Landmark Lighting
paint - BM Sundial
The "picture" on the wall is cheating a bit - it's actually a tile from ravenstonetiles.com called "Solitude" - I couldn't find anything I liked except this, so it represents art I'd put here.

I'm a new member. This was fun.

Purplepansies Mission Tile West cement tiles: This is a very soothing color combination. I like the baquette.

Kittycatpaws is my 8-year-old daughter, who wanted to do her own kitchen design. She pulled items from my Olioboard library, so some of the items may look familiar (like the Renoir). Here are her details:

Floor: Armstrong VCT Marina Blue
Cabinets: Slab doors in periwinkle. Sorry, no detail
Cabinet hardware: periwinkle flower knobs from Pottery Barn Teen
Range: La Cornue Albertine
Cookware: Le Creuset in ink
Counter: Caesarstone Deep Ocean
Vases: Dwell Studio vase pebble blue double bulb
Tile: Polanco 3 Talavera Mexican tile from Tierra y Fuego
Rangehood: Frigidaire
Paint: Behr Pear
Chairs: Austrian Biedermeier side chairs from 1stDibs.com
Table: Metal top Provencal table from Kaboodle.com
Art: Roses dans une fenetre by Renoir
Lighting: Bellina Chandelier in Platinum from ZGallerie

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Purplepansies: just lovely again. I really like the uppers, but I'm not sure about tile with those uppers.

kiitycatpaws: nice name! Welcome! I love all the blues in your kitchen, especially that wonderful range. Perhaps a less formal chandelier might work better? I'm not sure though. Great work.
My 8 year old dd is playing with olioboard too, she is working on her bedroom. She hasn't graduated to kitchens yet! ;)

Hi kittycatpaws! Welcome to the forum and congratulations on your first design! You did an awesome job, I am impressed! I love the tiles you chose, and almost used that same range in a design I am still working on. I am curious - is blue your favorite color?

So much fun - wish I could have done something like this - but chicken!

I worked for a bit on creating a design board with my tile, and couldn't figure it out and quit. Shown up by an 8 year old - I hang my head in shame. Obviously, I need to get back to the drawing board and try some more.

Well, the 8-year-old had help with Olioboard. She probably would have gotten very frustrated without help.

ae2ga - post what you have so far and what you are having trouble with, maybe we can help!

So I called my daughter and she said - oh momma, you can do that on the Adobe Design - you just have to ... and she stopped speaking English at that point. I used Publisher instead (a program I know) and saved as a jpeg file.

The cabinet is walnut but it will be the same maple as the table and chairs - I think, unless I do white instead. I also put n a white stove though in my dreams, I have that Lacanche Chagny in French blue which is an almost exact match as the darker blue in the tile (couldn't find a blue one in Google inamges).

The yellow background is very close to the color of the tile which I think I like.

sink: Kohler Bakserfield
faucet: Newport Brass Chesterfield with sprayer
countertops - quartize blue enjoy - thanks Marcolo

What I'd really like to do is have a mock up like so many of you with it looking kitchen-like instead of the bunch of pictures, but that is beyond my computer skills - which I thought were good until I tried this...

Thanks bunches to AngieDIY for the tile mock up she did for me in the Only One clown thread.

And without further ado...

I am glad to see new people giving it a try as well as the regulars :)

ae2ga blue & yellow: So glad you were able to post! Your kitchen was one of the ones that made this thread seem so timely. I love the effect of your tile with the double border, and love how it looks with the blue counter.

cawaps - I was so glad that this thread came along when it did. Roof before kitchen, but I'll be ready to make the kitchen dream a reality when the time comes. Blue and yellow are my colors - with a little green to spice things up a bit. Happy colors, pretty colors - and that's what I want, happy and pretty and peaceful.

I still hope there will be a few more posts because I'm learning so much about using colors that are not pastels and blending them with other elements to make a cohensive whole. No neutral here - it's a good thing.

Of course, experts to pick apart my idea would be great. Especially if there is a lighting suggestion.

I love this kitchen! Here is an example of a real life bold patterned tile from this morning's Houzz ideabook.

Here is a link that might be useful: [Artistic Glass Tile Backsplash[(https://www.houzz.com/magazine/kitchen-of-the-week-exquisite-artistic-backsplash-stsetivw-vs~3932601?utm_source=Houzz&utm_campaign=u159&utm_medium=email&utm_content=gallery0)

Tile - I cheated a bit here. This is encaustic floor tile from NY, found at Solar Antique Tiles. But I love the color and pattern so much that I would do it on a wall.
cabinets - Crown Point "Bradford," antique oak in russet
Rangemaster range in olive
Zodiaq Magellan Green counters
table and chairs from amishtables.com
Stelle chandelier by Murray Feiss
walls are BM Buxton Blue
laminate floor (sorry, link was broken so am not sure of source)

Wow! You are all so talented!

First attempt at this. I've been obsessed with handmade Greek tiles lately. This one has a raised pattern, and is 6" x 61/4" handmade by SMALTOTECHNIKI CERAMIK, GREECE. I show it with:
White Six Square Shaker cabinets
Lisbon Blue paint by Ralph Lauren
Inca Brown Marble
Blue range and stainless vent hood by Bluestar
Greek Key dinnerware by Jonathan Adler
White marble kitchen island by Newland
Vase in Rachel's Teal by Edgecomb Potters
Red Oak floor by Lumber Liquidators

Welcome EAM44! That is beautiful tile! And I love the purple range (of course!) with it!

Thanks Purple! It's not easy for me but I'm trying to learn how to work with complex tiles, so I thought it would be a good exercise.

I fell in love with one other handmade Greek tile. It's also got a raised profile, and was made by Nassos Keramiki in Rhodes. I show it with blue cabinets
Soapstone counters
Greek plate by Spode
Flatiron table by Restoration Hardware
Ralph Lauren Paint in Sullivan
Mug in Rachel's Teal by Edgecomb Potters
Metaltec linen tile
David Tiffany round hanging light

I've been swamped with work and not online often lately, but I have to comment here to say that I LOVE these designs. Everyone has done a fantastic job.

Purplepansies encaustic tile: The counter and range look great with the tile. The stainless rangehood, though, seems out of place. I know stainless is supposed to go with anything, but I think this is a counterexample.

EAM44 Smaltotechniki Ceramik: Beautiful tile and a nice use of color without being overwhelming. Glad to have you participating!

EAM44 Nassos Keramiki: This tile reminds me of a kaleidoscope, and I love kaleidoscopes. I like the way the shape of the lighting fixture echos the circles on the tile. Love the linen tile, and the table. I haven't been a fan of the direction Restoration Harware has taken with their merchandise, but this proves that individual pieces work when taken out of the dreary context of the RH catalog.

@purplepansies - that last one is divine! I love the grey/green blend of tile, stove, and counters - really beautiful. Makes me think I need a blue stove.

The late entries inspired me to do one more. It came out darker than I intended--I'm not sure the tile is really as dark as it rendered.

Floor: Daltile Metal Fusion in "stainless steel"
Cabinets: Kraftmaid slab door maple in onyx
Cabinet Hardware: Nifty Nob square cabinet knobs
Counter: Silestone Absolute Green
Cooktop: KitchenAid Pro Style (I wanted a Wolf but couldn't find a pic with black knobs)
Backsplash: Angela Adams Mammy tile in colorway 1 from Ann Sacks
Range hood: Rangecraft Cantebury
Sconces: Possini etched glass polished nickel wall sconce
Oven: Viking in mint julep
Paint: Behr Cool White
Chairs: Leather and oak dining chairs by Harold Schwartz for Romweber, from Redmodernfurniture.com
Table: 1970s chrome & brass dining table from Redmodernfurniture.com
White high-gloss buffet from modernfurnitureny.com
Candice Olson Sydney table lamp, black & chrome from Amazon.com
Monaco Pendant light from EQ3.com
Art: Untitled, by Hans Hartung, 1975, 1stDibs

Ae2ga contacted me off line soliciting more substantive critique on her board. Apparently we weren't critical enough--step up, people! :)

So I took her tile and design elements and did a couple boards. I thought that her underlying problem was that it is hard to use two vivid, contrasting colors in a design in balanced quantities and intensities without making it look like a college sports jersey (Go Cal Bears!). So I did one design where I let blues predominate and one where I let yellows take the lead, although a lot of the elements are the same.

I focused on the color balance, and the styles of the different elements don't work together as well as I would like. It was devilishly hard finding things in the right color, let alone the right color and style.

Anyway, feel free to rip these apart and let ae2ga know what you really think works and what doesn't with her tile.

Floor:
.....Yellow: Checkered Marmoleum in Butter and White Marble
.....Blue: Daltile Micro Flecks in Moonlight Swim
Cabinets: Kraftmaid square raised panel maple in Cinnamon
Cabinet Hardware: Plymouth knob and Allison antique brass pull from eknobsandpulls.com
Range: Bluestar in blue
Counter:
.....Yellow: Silestone Yellow Dream
.....Blue: Silestone Blue Enjoy
Tile: Ae2ga's tile
Rangehood: Frigidaire stainless chimney hood
Paint: Benjamin Moore Barely Yellow
Rug:
.....Yellow: Blue oriental rug from therugfactory.com
.....Blue: Fronter Moroccan ivory & yellow hand-woven wool rug from Zinc Door
Table: From ae2ga's pic, sorry for the loss of resolution
Chairs: Furniture Classics English country ladderback side chair from homefurnitureshowroom.com (chosen to resemble ae2ga's, which lost too much resolution to use)
Art: Bridge in City Park by Charles Woodward Hutson, ca 1910-1920, from 1stDibs.com
Frame:
.....Yellow: Paint swatch of Color Guild Galaxy Blue from myperfectcolor.com
.....Blue: Paint swatch of Benjamin Moore Midnight Navy from myperfectcolor.com
Lighting:
.....Yellow: Ikat batik drum pendant from ShadesofLight.com
.....Blue: All yellow giclee pendant chandelier from eurostylelighting.com (this is the wrong yellow and wrong style, but I couldn't find anything that really worked)

I'm really loving the patterned Ann Sacks tiles (obviously). This is Ann Sacks Perennial in Tulip.

Prickly, the Tulip board is really nice. I never thought a "bold tile" kitchen could appear so soothing. Nice work.

Thank you SO MUCH! As Cawaps said, I like my individual elements, but I'm not feeling the flow of the them all put together. I really am tough and take take criticism of this deisgn - I actually want it because it will help tremendously.

Thanks Angie! I really love the yellow tones in that tile.
cawaps - The white hex tile in the Paccha design is indeed the backsplash. I thought it would be fun to echo the pattern but go with a neutral color, and sort of play off of the current trend of the white tile backsplash but in a fun shape.

cawaps - (Lava Lamp) - This is fantastic. Very bold and vintage, but it looks modern too.
(Monteray Collection Wave) - Lovely and very cohesive. I think this is a very successful use of two tone cabinetry. The light fixture really picks up the tile pattern.

purplepansies - (Ann Sacks June) - Really pretty. I like the combination of the cool blues, gray, and the warm wood floor. The sparkly knobs go so well with that light fixture. I agree with cawaps that the tile has a very pretty delicate lace effect.
(Ann Sacks Grace 2 Peridot) - I've been eyeing this tile too. The green is just stunning. I personally don't particularly like the door style, but I like everything else about the design.
(Artistic Tile Danse Lucido) - Very very feminine. I think the chairs push it a little too over the top for my taste, though they go well and I think would probably be well-received by those that like florals. I do really like the soothing greens and the tile pattern.
(Mission West Cement) - The cabinets are fantastic and really work with the shape of the pattern in the tile.

EAM44 - (Greek Tiles) - These tiles are beautiful. Love the bright blues and how you pull them out in the range and wall color. I think in the first case I might have preferred wood cabinetry to stand up to the bold colors, but I really like the blue cabinetry in the second design.

Backsplash tile is Ann Sacks Sakura in Spring Breeze. I wanted to go for a fairly contemporary look with just a hint of natural/rustic to go with what felt like an earthy pattern in the tile. I tried to balance the cool blues and grays with warm cherry wood.

I'm obviously having a lot of fun with this topic. I hope everyone else is as well.

Pricklypearcactus Ann Sacks Perennial in Tulip: I hope it doesn't offend you that this one makes me think of bumble bees. I love it! What a great color yellow, very soothing as Angie_DIY said. The hex floor tiles are great.

Pricklypearcactus Ann Sacks Sakura in Spring Breeze: I like the mix of warm wood and cool blues and grays. Without the wood, the other materials could look industrial and sterile, but together they balance each other.