Would you tile your basement with 2 x 2 hex tile
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Diamond pattern 20x20 floor tile with 2x2 glass insets? Walls?
Comments (4)I have seen glass tiles used in floors -- but I don't believe every glass is floor-rated. I'd call around to try to find one that is, or else maybe introduce a third material -- maybe a slate? In the shower, you could run your tile up toabout the 48" mark, then have an accent strip made of glass and tile pieces. There are so many different design possibilities! Look for some pieces called 'cigar rails' or 'half-rounds' to use as border strips. You can find them in glass and a variety of natural stones. You may also be able to mix a natural or man-made composite 'travertine' into a border and carry it off, even though your tile is ceramic. Another option would be metal tiles. Those could tie into your fixtures and hardware and be mixed with the glass as well....See MoreMy new 2x2 tiled shower floor is making me cry
Comments (20)My brand new master shower does not have a pre sloped pan. They also had a very hard time sloping my mosiac tiles during install(long thin tiles). It looks/works fine now, please tell me it does not need to be redone... If it's new construction and does not meet code, I'd want it to meet code. You'll get a better shower and the installer will learn to follow code. Or you can leave it as is. You may not ever have problems...or you may have problems. The irony? I'm not a tile guy like Bill. Yet I still know code. Why do Bill and I know code? Simply because we're professionals. He in his field, me in mine. We didn't flunk out of cooking school, or get fired from our jobs at the factory, or flunk out of college, and decide as an alternative to set tile or build houses. And if we had flunked out of cooking school, that's cool...as long as we learn about our new job before we pick up a margin trowel and bust open a bag of thinset for the first time. I'd say close to 70% of people in construction build incorrectly. That's inexcusable. When I buy a new car I shouldn't have to learn about internal combustion engines and then visit the plant to make sure the line guys are building my car correctly. It shouldn't be that way in construction either. Sad. Getting off my soapbox so I can go decorate the Christmas tree, Mongo...See More12' x 24' floor tiles with 2' x 4' subway tile?
Comments (10)Although it looks intricate as hell, the herringbone is very simply, a brick joint pattern with every other tile turned on its side. Look at the pattern for a minute. You'll see that first the horizontal tiles look like steps, with each step being exactly a 1/2 tile advanced from the last. Then comes the vertical tiles doing the same thing. Then back to the horizontal tiles, and so on. Once you get going with it, it's really not as complicated as it looks. The only disadvantage is that your grout joint is predetermined by the tile size. If you lay two tiles longways side by side right next to a single tile cappling the ends of the two tiles, move the first two so their long edge is flush with either end of the capping tile. Whatever you have for a joint between the two tiles is what you're going to use for a grout joint throughout the floor. No ifs, ands, or buts....See MoreShow Me Your 2.5'x10' or 3'x12' tile Backsplashes
Comments (3)Jodi, that is beautiful..your countertops look similar to ours..we have Mysore Black.. Yes, I realized that would be too much...So, now I am thinking of a seagrass limestone with the glass tiles (2.5 x 10) and a white travertine (I found a porcelain one that you'd never know it was porcelain). I thought I'd start them off randomly so it wasn't in a brick pattern (the end pieces would be cut...but the rest would be the same)...kind of like a hardwood floor randomness. I'd love more examples!...See MoreJAN MOYER
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