Hints and tips:
...It is a delight: yolk-yellow and lined in white tiles which remind him of an Edwardian scullery with a petite, flip-up table for morning coffee....
...Upstairs, the tiles of De Marchi Verona ripple like water against mirrored surfaces....
...Jamb’s art deco style ‘Astor’ chimneypiece in black marble and onyx lends deeply glamorous Soanian drama to the drawing room, £27,500 + VAT....
...Shower curtains and cork tiles are cheaper than shower screens or gleaming expanses of marble....
...The crowd flowed between marble pillars, over crimson carpets and under arches skinned in thousands of tiny, mirrored tiles....
...But despite the neglect, Karmely became smitten with the 12-bedroom, eight-and-a-half-bathroom, terracotta tile-topped Renaissance-style villa....
...Surrounded by sprawling gardens, it’s the epitome of Italian chic: all rich walnut floors and marble staircases....
...While the plaster finishes, linen textiles and hemp carpets do translate, Bowden tends to offset them with harder finishes such as marble and steel....
...I love Streisand’s kitchen with its glossy black cabinets, black and red tiles and mini television. Black tiles are certainly cool....
...We lived for 10 years with a chipped laminate worktop and orange carpet tiles....
...There are feature walls and courtyards full of subtropical plants, subway tiles, murals and breakfast bars with chrome appliances and vividly coloured Spanish fish tins....
...Wit in an interior is painting a door architrave to look like marble, rather than using real marble....
...“I don’t know how intricate they can make their marble finishing and how deep they can make their silky shag pile carpets....
...Red mosaic Bisazza tiles, including mirrored ones that sparkle when the night light is activated, give the appearance of hundreds of pinpricks of light – like a galaxy far, far away....
...The patterned carpets didn’t help with navigation. Oh, those carpets!...
...The early lino patterns were imitation tiles, wood, granite and marble even Flintstones-style random rubble....
...Terrazzo-effect carpets in bright blues have rounded corners to pick up on the windows....
...and textile fragments to wooden boxes inlaid with ivory or mother-of-pearl, Italian pietra dura marbles, polychrome tiles and prints after Poussin....
...PRIN London is building a mosaic of “Rustiles” — Jesmonite tiles with an oxidised metal-dust surface....
...Encaustic floor tiles are medieval inventions, conceived to suit a 13th-century age renowned for great churches, lavish colour and intensive heraldry, but not carpets....
...The Financial Times occupies an audaciously undistinguished building on the fringes of the City, in which the carpet tiles are coffee-stained, functional desks are arranged in lines and mice roam freely....
...The friends started off selling computers, perfumes, cigarettes and carpets....
...There are original black-and-white tiles in the lobby, a chic curving stone staircase, and suffusions of flowers and scent everywhere....
...While the inspiration for its seat design may have come from the DSR chair designed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1950, the style of Acro’s base is more carpet tile than modern classic....
...The rooms, patterned carpets aside, have more obvious charm. Where once there were about 1,000 rooms, now there are just 180 unusually spacious ones....
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