Walking Around, Looking Down
This drives my family and friends crazy. Everywhere we go, I’m looking at the floors. I could tell you about the tile flooring in every restaurant and store I go to. My brain is noting and cataloging every surface, for better or worse. Of course this goes for hardwoods, carpeting, and vinyl, b...
Size Matters
Every year the tile manufacturers come to the tile convention trying to outdo each other with bigger, and bigger tile. They are doing it for you, because you made that face, and complained about the grout. (There are other reasons, more on that later.) Let’s take a trip, back through time, an...
Defining Timeless Tile Design
During the last ten years of working in this field, one of my greatest pleasures has been the observation of the evolution of design vocabulary. I’ve even kept a little notebook of popular words and phrases that clients use to describe what they want. I could probably write a blog on each one…...
