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Tile has been transformed in the popular imagination from a pedestrian material to a sought-after design element. Home centers, specialty tile shops, and Internet sources offer the average homeowner an amazing range of mass-produced, handmade, and custom tile types made of materials including ceramics, natural stone, metal, and glass. Organized by room, with chapters covering kitchens, bathrooms, living spaces, entries, and mudrooms, Tile Idea Book presents hundreds of photographs showing show more the effects created by all the major types of tile available today when installed in different settings: large rooms, such as kitchens, and small ones, such as bathrooms and entryways. It shows how color, pattern, and texture can be used to create special effects on floors and walls and provides specific information on how to recreate these effects. Also covered is the decorative use of tile in fireplaces and hearths, wainscoting, stairs, and halls, as well as in exterior settings such as terraces and patios. show lessTags
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Andrew Wormer is a contributing editor to Fine Homebuilding magazine. An experienced builder and bathroom remodeler, Andrew lives in Ferrisburgh, Vermont
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Common Knowledge
- Alternate titles
- TILE
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- Home & Garden, Nonfiction, Art & Design, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 747.3 — Arts & recreation Drawing & decorative arts Interior decoration Walls and window treatment
- LCC
- NK2115.5 .T54 .W67 — Fine Arts 3600-(9990) Other arts and art industries Decorative arts Interior decoration. House decoration General. History, etc.
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