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That pale creamy yellow on the walls in the top photo is gorgeous. I'd say it's super close to Benjamin Moore's "ambiance".

dreamy gettaway house, but its yours- I like that!

Oh I looooove cement tiles! The best ones I have seen are in colonial buildings in Southeast Asia... so cool and perfect on bare feet, and beautiful with white walls, dark wood and a quiet ceiling fan...

Aw. The tile in the first photo is freakishly GORGEOUS!

The glass work and moldings in the third photo... FABULOUS!

They don't make 'em like that anymore.

you can find more links to them by searching under "encaustic tile" -- lots of great salvaged ones are around, especially in the UK, where they were popular in Victorian and Edwardian entryways.

This site is really cool, giving a better idea of the breadth of the product (and the tiles Maxwell showed are there too):

http://www.villalagoontile.com/history-of-encaustic-tiles.html

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If you look closely at the border tile near the wood in the bathroom photo, you will see why it is very important to stay right with your tile layers as they install your patterned cement tile. I just had about 6 rooms covered in cement tile last week and even tho I was onsite the whole time, I almost missed several screw-ups and in one instance, a wrong solid color got installed outside a bordered tile rug. Half of it was done before I saw it. But as luck would have it, the color looks OK, so no big deal. I like it.

I also tried to pull each and every tile out of the boxes myself and look for any I wanted to 'cull' . Occasionaly a cement tile gets made w/ the colors in the wrong place, or one gets put in the wrong box. Or the color is smeared or just plain 'off'. You are lucky if your tile layer watches and catches those. Most don't or can't. (Remember that many men are color blind!)

But the point is, tile layers are basically interested in one thing, getting tile on that floor as fast as possible. So with complicated designs, stay with them and supervise.

You can see my new cement tile floors at http://www.ConcreteCottage.com/tile-floors.html

Beautiful tiles, I recently just remodeled my kitchen backsplash and my bathroom and I've chosen to go with Moorish style or Moroccan style. Check out this place they have some amazing handmade tiles: http://www.sainttropezboutique.us/products/tiles/moroccan-tiles.aspx


Cheers,

Sandra,