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Colour Trends, Trends

Little Greene’s Colour of the Year 2025

A cosy, creamy, coffee-cake colour, Little Greene‘s Mochi offers warm neutrality with timeless versatility. A delightful alternative to classic white or cool-toned grey, the deliciously toasty beige of Mochi is made for spaces both retro and contemporary, pairing with earthy shades and toning down deep pigments. Match the paint or simply tile the shade with these tile matches. Little Greene More Colour of the Year … Continue reading Little Greene’s Colour of the Year 2025

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A futuristic fusion

Floating in with a multi-dimensional tile/art futuristic fusion, Hungarian brand Cavaril‘s Geomo 026 is serving relief like no other. Experimenting with a double-stuffed design, Geomo 026’s is made in two layers; a pocked and dotted base and a 3D angular accent. Four individual tiles (A1, A2, B1, and B2) make up the building blocks of the collection where mixing and matching amongst them showcase their … Continue reading A futuristic fusion

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Design & Technology, Sustainable Design

Mourn

We’ve talked about unexpected materials before, from salt to shells, tea dust to corn, and pee to potatoes, but none have tackled a substance that comes with quite so much emotion as the one we’re talking about today – us. Standing away from tradition, Studio Nienke Hoogvliet imagines an entirely different way to remember loved ones whilst honouring the environment they are being interred in. … Continue reading Mourn

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Uniquely tiled furniture

A tiled table top, ceramic-covered bar, and mosaic bench are all well and good, but when artists turn their craft exclusively to the marriage between unexpected furniture design and unique tile design, true magic happens. And here are five examples that show exactly that. 1) Jeff Martin From an exhibition held last year titled ‘Please Sit for the Alternate Ending’, Jeff Martin‘s magnificently wondrous designs … Continue reading Uniquely tiled furniture

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Wavy Wonders

Partnering with Giovanni De Maio for a fabulous collection ripe with ripples, Cristina Celestino brings the tile world yet another gorgeous range of unique ceramic creations with Abaco Celeste. Richly pigmented in ocean blues, punchy corals, and vibrant oranges, five personalities – Helios, Graph, Thalassa, Peploe, and Chloris – make up the collection, bringing forward their unique takes on a wavy aesthetic. Helios, available in … Continue reading Wavy Wonders

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Grout play tiles from Mercury Mosaics

Letting grout play a pivotal role in design, these three tile ranges from Mercury Mosaics offer space and shapes to be filled in with classic neutrals or vibrant colour. Rise A set of simple split rectangles sitting two by three on a mosaic mesh, Rise gives us sleek geometry in four colours – a clear glossy Black, a metallic matte Steel, a smoky duo Midnight … Continue reading Grout play tiles from Mercury Mosaics

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Valspar’s Colour of the Year 2025

Six years on from Pantone’s Classic Blue, and a year after the countless blue choices for 2024’s Colour of the Year, Valspar has selected aptly named Encore for 2025. This punchy blue’s hearty pigment was chosen to embody constancy and confidence, inviting joy alongside a comforting sense of stability. Echoing Valspar’s 2024 shade Renew Blue, Encore reaffirms a desire for optimism in the year ahead, … Continue reading Valspar’s Colour of the Year 2025

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Tiles inspired by cowboy boots

Clay Imports welcomes another wonderful collection to the tile world with their new collaboration with Davey McEathron and Rebecca Holliday of Rock Paper Build. Finding inspiration in Mexican city San Miguel de Allende and on the motifs of cowboy boots, Rock Paper Build have created four designs – Bayas, Naranjas, Conectada, and Pomelo – with an enticingly retro aesthetic. These motifs decorate a selection of … Continue reading Tiles inspired by cowboy boots

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Wilder’s Waves

With colour, joy, whimsy, and endless half-moons, designer Aimée Wilder‘s tile collections are sure to inspire. Waves in playful shades, versatile geometrics, and a few unique takes on terrazzo, this extensive catalogue of designs takes a trip away from tradition to bring us a range of finishes solidly in the 21st Century. Wilder’s choices of colour and contrast emphasise the wobbling shapes, offering a highly … Continue reading Wilder’s Waves

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Get the Look, Trend Inspo, Trends

Get the Look: Terrazzo Bathrooms

Timeless, bold, elegant, enticing, terrazzo has a whole lot going for it. If you’re looking for some inspo for a beautiful bathroom, this is a good place to start. 1) Shades of Sage Gorgeous shades of sage speckled in multi-tonal white stone in varying sizes lends layers of loveliness to this simple shower. Get the look with Rialto Terrazzo Laguna from Hyperion Tiles, Terrazzo Sage … Continue reading Get the Look: Terrazzo Bathrooms

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The Italian Collection

Maitland & Poate add another fabulous range to their expansive collection with a new retro collaboration. The new addition – The Italian Collection – was created by design journalist and interiors expert Kate Watson-Smyth who founded Mad About the House. Taking inspiration from her recent Italian home renovation, the collection’s colourways reflect some of the 300-year-old property’s original features with unusual, rich, and lovely combos. … Continue reading The Italian Collection

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Itsy Bitsy Blatherwick

Teeny tiny tiles tastefully adorned with hearts, leaves, squiggles, and apples take the stage today as we cover the adorable decors of Blatherwick Ceramics. Found on a scout about the internet, Buxton-based Blatherwick Ceramics sits proudly amongst the artisans on Etsy with artist Sue offering up her handmade slip decorated ceramic creations. Plates, mugs, dishes, and brooches add to the artsy ranks, with five collections … Continue reading Itsy Bitsy Blatherwick

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Dulux Colour of the Year 2025

We usually wait until starting a new year before talking about all of the Colours of the Year, but this time we’re doing it early! And kicking it all off we’ve got UK paint giant – Dulux. Offering massive amount of optimism for 2025, Dulux has selected True Joy – a saturated sunshine shade bursting with happiness. Standing against the soul sucking realities of a … Continue reading Dulux Colour of the Year 2025

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Design & Technology, Sustainable Design

Pierreplume

Earlier this year we shared the fabulous FabBrick, a company dedicated to tackling the waste and pollution of two of the world’s largest manufacturing sectors – construction and fashion. But they aren’t the only ones focusing on fabric to find new ways to recycle. Design and interior architecture agency Premices and co launched their recycled fibre collection in 2021 after 8 years of research and … Continue reading Pierreplume

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Dazed and Glazed

As the son of a potter, Oregon-based creative Brett Stern has always been drawn to the magic of clay. Now a self-proclaimed alchemist, Stern uses “colour, temperature, and time” as his ingredients, producing wacky, wonderful, bubbly beauties for Dazed and Glazed. Using an innovative process to fuse a thin veneer of glass onto a ceramic tile surface an unusual foamy look is created with patterns … Continue reading Dazed and Glazed

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Get the Look: Decor Tiles IV

Over on our Instagram I asked what sort of inspo should feature in our next Get the Look and by a massive margin the results told me that more decor tiles are required. So here are five interiors and the decor tiles you need to get the look! 1) Wavy Maze A black and white wiggly wave of lines curls up and around the walls … Continue reading Get the Look: Decor Tiles IV

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Creating Crumbles

Offering a modern perspective on a historic material, Italian research hub Terraformæ seeks to push the boundaries of terracotta to produce fresh surface solutions full of organic charm. One of these surface solutions blends two timeless favourites – terrazzo and terracotta. Designed by Sveva Bizzotto, Terraformæ’s Crumbles utilises production scraps, such as glass and cryolite, to form the freckling flecks that give it its terrazzo-like … Continue reading Creating Crumbles

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Lux Loveliness

Vibrant with colour, rich with retro charm, and oozing artisanal finesse, these are the enchanting creations of Trix Newham. Embracing the captivating visuals formed by glaze effects, Newham’s artistic designs combine inky, watercolour, crackled, and speckled looks with raw natural clay to produce dynamic, characterful works. Originally reigniting her love for pottery in 2021, Newham started out making small square dishes decorated with geometric patterns … Continue reading Lux Loveliness

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Six silly fish tiles

Sealife tiles got a post of their own, as did those that took us underwater, but we kept back these fishy fancies so they could all hang out here together. 1) Poisson Made up of seven colour-coded fish triptychs, Ceramiche Arcea‘s Poisson plays with pattern and tone for a marvellous mix and match shaol that varies the decor from heady to body to tail. 2) … Continue reading Six silly fish tiles

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Kaolin x Greg Natale

Startled to discover it has been five whole years since we shared The Composite Collection, it seems high time to check out whether Australian designer Greg Natale has been creating any more tiling delights for us to sink our teeth into. And thankfully he hasn’t disappointed. This time collaborating with Kaolin, Natale has produced the Dimora Collection, a set of three tile series – The … Continue reading Kaolin x Greg Natale

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