Offering up something delicious for 2025, American paint brand Glidden has gone to the obscure herb section of shades to pick out their Colour of the Year. The bold and beautiful Purple Basil brings a burst of Maximalism and a hint of Y2K charm, encouraging brave design choices an representing a journey of “self-discovery and self-expression.” Emboldening people to go big with their colour choices, … Continue reading Glidden’s Colour of the Year 2025
We’re no strangers to an algae/surface crossover. We’ve seen the curvaceous creations from Julia Lohmann, we’ve seen tiles injected with algae for water filtration from The Bio-Integrated Design Lab, we’ve seen roofs made of seaweed thatch by Kathryn Larsen, we’ve seen tiles made to house algae, and we’ve seen the varied colour profiles of waterborne algae used in Atelier Luma’s Algae Platform tiles. And today we’re adding … Continue reading Assemble Algae
Using tiles as her canvas, Anastasia Ropalo adds brilliantly detailed florals and geometrics to ceramic and wood, forming unique surfaces for highly decorative furnishings. Each stem, bud, petal, curve, and diamond is lined with tiny dots to create an elegant sense of movement and subtle texture. Both flowy, continuous William Morris-esque designs and playful patchworks form Ropalo’s extensive portfolio. These hand painted tiles are then … Continue reading Anastasia Ropalo
It has been so much fun finding all the tiles to fill our animal-themed posts. If you’ve missed them we’ve got dog tiles, cat tiles, insect tiles, fish tiles, and sealife tiles, and today we’re taking to the skies with a whole bunch of bird tiles! 1) Reptile Tiles In the trippy, humorous style of Medieval art, Reptile Tiles’ Medieval Animal Tiles collection features a … Continue reading Six little bird tiles ready to take flight
A joyful pastel scheme runs through this London home, flowing across the hallway, bathroom, and kitchen, and bursting through to the exterior of a fresh extension designed by Office S&M. Inspired by train stations and swimming pools, three dimensional baby pink tiles decorate the facade, creating a bubbly contrast against the pale bricks and minty green window and door frames. The tiles were made by … Continue reading The Pastel House
The freckled nature of terrazzo makes it a marvellous place to play around with material, shape, and design. Mixing up mediums, adding colour, and pattern, these five companies are creating unique personalities for traditional terrazzo. 1) Zia Tile A half and half half moon in unusual colour combinations, stripes, jagged steps, wobbly lines, and large stepping stone pebbles make up the motifs of Zia Tile‘s … Continue reading Five unique takes on terrazzo
The crafty creatives at Karak cause a stir on a courtyard ceiling in a collaboration with artist Michael Fliri and architecture firm Bergmeisterwolf. Flowing across a bathhouse in the old town of Brixen, double-ended ceramic hands reach towards one another in a symbol of connection and exchange. In a deep inky blue, these textured, 3D hands rise up from uniquely shaped tiles with their bubble-like skin … Continue reading Karak Constellation
The cosy months are upon us so let’s welcome them with a little colour-coordinated interior inspo! 1) Spiked Mustard Add a flash of drama and earthy tones with a spectacularly spiky mustard-toned pattern. Get the look with Penacho Topaz from Clay Imports, Sunny Mustard from Otto Tiles & Design, or Coraje Mostaza from Maitland & Poate. 2) Earthy Geometry Focus the eye and embrace warm … Continue reading Get the Look: the colours of autumn
Absorbing demolition waste from the UK, this new terrazzo surface from Solus Ceramics offers a new life to all sorts of materials. A full range of Spolia’s 21 standard colours in two formats (300 by 300 by 25mm and 600 by 600 by 22mm) enables cohesion across projects, with tonal families including smoky greys, off-whites, and surprising speckles in unexpected shades. But what makes Spolia … Continue reading Saving with Spolia
With delicate beginnings designing hand-painted glass carafes to replace the plastic water bottles that live on the bedside table or office desk, Petra Palumbo has blossomed into a stylish homeware brand that adds a sense of occasion to even the most mundane of daily rituals. Infusing aesthetic influences from her Lebanese ancestry and home in Scotland, rich colours, dainty patterns, and natural imagery play together … Continue reading Petra Palumbo’s Perfect Harmony
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
