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Flooring
Chipboard Effect Tiles from The Baked Tile Co
Tiles are one of my favourite interior products and I’ve always had a little bit of a love affair with them. They have come so far over the past few years thanks to technological advances and the effects that can be created these days are just so exciting. We are now seeing tiles of all
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Events
National Tile Week 2017
April is a pretty big month for anyone who is embarking on any home upgrade projects. The entire month of April is Home Improvement Month so it’s the perfect time to set yourself the challenge of updating at least one room in your home. We will finally be finishing off our kitchen makeover that we started
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Bathroom
My Small Bathroom Makeover Update
So I thought it was about time that I posted an update on my small bathroom makeover for you guys. It’s come on really great and I’m so excited to show you our progress. (Apologies for the poor quality photos and the mess). It’s not quite finished yet so you’ll have to wait a little while
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Bathroom
Home Improvements : My Bathroom Makeover
Form and Function Hex Black Matt Tiles by British Ceramic Tile. (We intend to use the matt white version in our bathroom makeover) I hope you all had a lovely long Easter weekend. I know many people take this opportunity to get stuck in with the DIY and home improvement jobs so if that was
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Trend
Tiling Trends
Bespoke patchwork encaustic tiles from Alhambra Home & Garden It’s official, I am obsessed with tiles! Wall tiles and floor tiles have been on my mind for months now. Admittedly, I’ve always been pretty obsessed but since thinking about renovating my own kitchen and bathroom the situation has become far more serious. I am so
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Kitchen
Updating Ruth’s Kitchen with New Tiles
Ruth moved into her new home as a first time buyer a little under a year ago. And as many of you will no doubt realise this is a big deal in today’s housing market where young people are increasingly being priced out of the market altogether. However, being able to get on the ladder
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Wallcoverings
Edgy Tiles by Patrycja Domanska & Tanja Lightfoot
I absolutely love a good wall tile and the crazier the better as far as I’m concerned. Tiles don’t need to be simply functional they can also make a bold design statement. And that is exactly what these gorgeous tiles that I’m featuring today do.Edgy tiles are designed by Austrian-based designers Patrycja Domanska and Tanja Lightfoot
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Bathroom
Tips & Tricks for Designing a Small Bathroom
Contemporary bathroom designed by Ripples As I have mentioned here many times before, I am a relatively new home owner having taken our first step onto the property ladder in October 2013. As first-time buyers, we obviously had to start off rather modestly and our little flat is far from the dream home that we
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Bathroom
Updating Tiles with Coloured Grout
I dream of the day when I can afford to redo my bathroom and my kitchen. The guy who owned our flat before us clearly believed that he was qualified to renovate the place…oh how wrong he was. I’ve never seen such poor quality workmanship and being the design addict that I am makes this
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Flooring
2014 Tiling Trends from Topps Tiles
Since we moved into our new home, all I can think about is re-doing our kitchen and bathroom. These are two of the most important rooms in a house in my opinion. But they are also two of the most expensive to do up and unfortunately we can’t afford any redecorating at the moment. To
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Wallcoverings
Supersized Metro Brick Tiles
If I was going to describe my dream kitchen, these metro brick tiles would be somewhere near the top of the list. I absolutely love the way that they combine elegant simplicity with a touch of retro style. Now I know these tiles have been around for quite some time and many people may think
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Interior Accessories
Fossilize by Doreen Westphal
Doreen Westphal is a designer of East-German origin whose work has a distinct focus on sustainability and the repurposing of materials to create unusual and playful objects. With the Fossilize collection Westphal invites us to think about the changes we make to the world we live in and which of those changes we should keep
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Flooring
Bringing the garden indoors
In recent months, I have come across quite a few innovative interiors products inspired by the great outdoors. This got me thinking that there are some really interesting ways to liven up your living room and bring the garden inside the house. So I’ve decided to do a quick round-up of my favourite products that
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Flooring
Wood-effect ceramic tiles
There was a time when we were forced to choose between wood flooring or ceramic tiles – a difficult choice given the advantages and benefits offered by both. However, there have been a number of advances in the tile industry over recent years that have ushered in new choices that allow us to combine those
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Bathroom
Alfa tiles by Made A Mano
I love these alphabet tiles by Made A Mano. Ideal for use in kitchens and bathrooms as either wall or floor tiles, these creative tiles can be used randomly or can be chosen to actually spell something out. Personally if I were to use them I would probably make my own giant word search to
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Wallcoverings
Ceramic Floral Tiles by Lafabbrica Spa
I recently wrote an article for Designer magazine on the trend towards textured wallcoverings. Unfortunately I had already submitted the article before I came across these beautiful tiles by Italian tile manufacturer Lafabbrica Spa. I haven’t come across any tiles like this before. The intricate floral relief pattern is subtle yet very striking and adds
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Wallcoverings
Solid Metal Mosaic Tiles
Australian company Alloy Design specializes in contemporary metal tiles, stainless steel homewares and accessories. The solid metal mosaic tiles are sleek, stylish and bring a sophisticated sheen to any interior or exterior surface that dares to don them. The tiles are available in stainless steel, copper, brass and titanium and in a variety of sizes.
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Trend
Pop Art in interior design
In my latest article for Designer magazine I take a look back at the origins of the Pop Art movement and the effect that it has had on modern interior home design. I speak to a number of interior designers to get their views on the influence that the current resurgence of Pop Art is having on
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Lighting
A light on the tiles
Billie Jean is an innovative wall covering concept that incorporates a collection of translucent glass tiles designed to illuminate the bathroom. The design, by Finnish designer Henrik Amberla, was a submission for a competition run by home design company DNA+. Amberla took his inspiration from a Michael Jackson music video in which the mere touch
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Bathroom
A shoe inspired bathtub
Italian mosiac manufacturer SICIS Art Mosaic Factory have introduced a fashion inspired bathtub for all those shoe obsessed fashionistas out there. The stiletto shoe luxury bathtubs will be the talking point of any bathroom they feature in and are the perfect tribute to footwear for those with a shoe fetish. The bathtubs are decorated in
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Wallcoverings
Bond Collection
Bond is the new collection of tiles by Turkish manufacturer Canakkale Seramik & Kalebodur in collaboration with renowned Finnish designer Harri Koskinen. Bond is a collection comprised of concave and convex tiles used in conjunction to give a sense of movement to an otherwise flat surface. Koskinen says he took his inspiration from the natural