Category: backsplash

So what is the latest kitchen design trend?

In the growing years homeowners are moving towards eco-friendly, long lasting and “biggest bang for their buck” improvements to their kitchens and bathrooms. We at Plumbtile have found the trends are leaning toward concrete accents, wallpaper-like backsplash tile and vintage lighting. Here are just a few of the trends that we have noticed for 2018:

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Choose Countertops with Confidence

Your countertops play a starring role in your kitchen design, helping set the style and tone for the heart of your home. There are so many options, from granite to wood to glass. You’re afraid of making a bad decision — and who wouldn’t be? But choosing your kitchen countertops doesn’t have to be difficult. By determining your design profile, you’ll learn what works for you, making choosing countertops easy and fun.

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Looking to Replace Your Backsplash?

Want to spruce up your kitchen but don’t want a full renovation project? Just changing the paint isn’t enough? You will be surprised what a difference a new backsplash will make in your kitchen. It will change the whole look and feel in addition to brightening up the space. Your family and friends will enjoy gathering in this room again. Read More

Sizing up Your Kitchen and Bathroom

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When you are remodeling your kitchen and bathroom, space and budget can be a challenge. One kitchen dilemma can be that the kitchen is too small. Remodeling can allow for the kitchen to seem large and spacious without causing financial hardship.

Tiny kitchens can feel confining when overhead cabinets are hovering over you in tight spaces. Many individuals cannot reach the higher levels and the feeling is restricting. Ponder shelving and hanging pot racks. This technique will give your kitchen look more “roomy” and not so cluttered. Read More

Ceramic Tile VS Porcelain Tile

Set8Tile5You will find many differences within the tiles that you choose to use throughout your home. Whether you’re using ceramic tile or porcelain tile, you can make sure that you’re getting the one that is going to do the best job in your home, and look the best that it can look in the end. This is what you’re going to want when it comes to making your home functional, but also beautiful at the same time. The right tile can help with this, so make sure to learn a bit more about it.

Porcelain Tile 

When thinking about adding porcelain tile to your bathroom or kitchen design, you have to consider if this is the right way to go. This is because it is a durable choice; however, you do have to keep in mind that it can and it might break if something heavy falls on it. It is also ideal for some people to use for their backsplash since it is up on the walls, and not on the floors. It is recommended that porcelain tile stay up since it can crack easily. This is generally not a widely requested material but it is still available for those that like it.

Ceramic Tile

With ceramic tile, you can obtain a bit stronger material when it is placed on the floors of your bathroom or kitchen, but it too can easily crack with a lot of weight or pressure that falls on it. You want to make sure that you choose something that can easily be wiped up, and ceramic tile can be but you also want to ensure that you work with something that is going to stand strong against the everyday activities that might happen throughout your home. This is why ceramic tile is one of the most used tiles to place throughout your home when you want something beautiful and long lasting.

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Porcelanosa: Tile Inspired By Nature

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While out shopping lately, have you noticed the sights, sounds and feelings of Autumn?  Bathroom designs are going back to the basics and basing their designs off nature. They are using neutral and more deep colors, and the shapes featured in their designs are mimicking plants and waves, giving designs an organic, yet subtle, feel. Keeping up with the trend, Porcelanosa bath & kitchen are bringing out nature inspired designs in tile.

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Trend Mosaic & Agglomerate Tiles for Kitchen, Bathroom & Pool

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Trend is an international manufacturer and distributor of mosaic tile collections produced in recycled glass, 24 carat gold and venetian enamel. It also produces engineered agglomerates containing recycled fragmented glass, quartz and granite. Trend supplies products suitable for the decoration of private spaces, urban areas and works of art. Trend tiles are great for backsplash appliques, wall tile, floor tile, countertops, aquatic tile, patio tile, and entryway tile.

Trend Mosaic-Tile-Kitchen-Backsplash-Ideas-5As one of the world’s leading producers of colored glass tiles, Venetian enamel, gold leaf tesserae and agglomerate slab, Trend has demonstrated a unique ability to synthesise the essential principles of Italian tradition, with a dynamic creativity attuned to today’s interior designers, architects and artists.

In addition, Trend moved early and aggressively to reduce the ecological impact of its processes and products. Production is now designed to consume fewer raw materials and energy resources, to recycle otherwise wasted materials, and to increase the natural durability of its products.

Eleganza Tiles Leading With Ceramic, Porcelain & Glass Tiles

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Ever since their humble beginnings in 2002, at Eleganza Tiles, a sense of the community has always been at their core to implement the mission of the “modern movement”. Their goal is to support and empower our customers to create their dream space. Read More

Designer Spotlight: Carmel Stone

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Modern lifestyle often focuses on the latest trends and newest fashions. However, “new” does not necessarily mean high quality or sophisticated taste. Breaking the mold, Carmel Stone has roots in ancient lands where construction materials have been weathering the passing winds of time for thousands of years.

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