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- Tile Style: ; Mirror, Mirror on the Walls - and Floor
- Sunday Gazette - Mail; Charleston, W.V. (2/25/2007)
- GLASS tiles are the new jewelry for the home. But diehard fans insist the result is well worth the cost."Glass tile is strikingly beautiful in so many different ways," says Patricia Hart McMillan, co-author with her daughter, Katharine Kaye McMillan, of the new book "Glass Tile Inspirations for Kitchens and Baths" (Schiffer, $19.95).
- For Backer Board, Cement Worth Effort
- Record, The; Bergen County, N.J. (2/25/2007)
- DEAR TIM: I have a ceramic tile job coming up and want to use cement backer board. DEAR JACKIE: There are all sorts of different tile backer board products out there. Cement backer boards can be a little tough to work with during the installation process, but they pay you back in spades for the effort.
- Something Different ... Getting Creative With Carpet
- Journal of Business; Spokane (2/22/2007)
- Handcrafted mats, specialty-themed rugs, inlaid carpets, tapestries, logo rep, and similar items.On a typical day, Bell isn't gliding across dance floors, but rather is busy cutting pieces of carpet and fashioning them into rugs she has designed for homes, businesses, and vehicles.Bell owns and is the sole employee of a 3-year-old Coeur d'Alene business called Rugs By Design.
- Geometry Meets Arts in Islamic Tiles
- Associated Press/AP Online (2/22/2007)
- WASHINGTON - Those wondrously intricate tile mosaics that adorn medieval Islamic architecture may cloak a mastery of geometry not matched in the West for hundreds of years.Now a Harvard University researcher argues that more than 500 years ago, math whizzes met up with the artists and began creating far more complex tile patterns that culminated in what mathematicians today call "quasi-crystalline designs."But if it's right, "this would be a hitherto undiscovered episode in the spectacular developments of geometry in central Islamic lands ...
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Armstrong Locking Hardwood Wins American Building Products Award from Home Magazine
- ebuild (2/20/2007)
- Armstrong's Locking Hardwood flooring was honored with the prestigious 2007 American Building Products Awards from HOME magazine, a leading consumer shelter publication. For the 11th consecutive year, HOME Magazine editors selected each product based on innovation, durability and practicality. Thirteen of the latest and greatest American building products will appear in the March 2007 issue of the magazine, which is available on newsstands February 13.
- Taming Squeaky Floors
- Buffalo News (2/16/2007)
- Dear Jim: My home has squeaky floors, especially during winter. This situation often also results in external gaps allowing air leakage and increasing your utility bills.If you have access to the floor joists below the squeaks, it is not difficult to fix them even if the cause is general settling.
- Kids' Bathroom Morphing into Beauty Salon
- Evansville Courier & Press (2/15/2007)
- My daughter is 11, but the pre-teen fascination with beauty products has yet to fully bloom in my household.I'd probably holler at him more for not picking up his clothing, but it's the only real sign of masculinity in a room that is quickly becoming a "girl's place." Quickly, they crowded into the space where my daughter's Barbie toothbrush once stood, waiting for a little girl's morning routine.
- Ceramic Tile Adds Beauty to Kitchen
- Record, The; Bergen County, N.J. (2/11/2007)
- DEAR TIM: My kitchen backsplash is just painted drywall. Can you offer any tips and suggestions for kitchen backsplash tile? DEAR DANA: It's no surprise that you keep gravitating to ceramic tile.
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Series: FOREST IMPRESSIONS
- ebuild (2/6/2007)
- Description: Coordinating glazed porcelain floor (18"x18" and 12"x12") and glazed ceramic wall (8"x12") colors are reminiscent of delicate ferns, fallen leaves, lichen-strewn tree trunks. FOREST IMPRESSIONS by Marazzi creates modern sanctuary in this fast-paced world. Indoors and out, or somewhere in between, modern consumers create their own "breakrooms" where family, entertaining, business and relaxation mix and mingle.
- Changing Times Find Much Ado Over Bamboo
- Sunday Gazette - Mail; Charleston, W.V. (2/4/2007)
- The material that fascinated the Victorians has become the eco- chic darling of home design.It's turning up in contemporary flooring, furniture, accessories and even bedding, and it's grabbing the attention of interior designers and consumers who are drawn to bamboo's beauty, function and environmental friendliness.Westerners started embracing bamboo in the 1800s, when Britain was colonizing the East Indies.
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