
Tips for Choosing the Perfect Kitchen Tiles
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Whether you’re selecting tiles for your walls or floors, read our expert’s advice before you start work on your new-look kitchen.
Whether you’re selecting tiles for your walls or floors, read our expert’s advice before you start work on your new-look kitchen.
Tubs have been around since ancient times, but only in the last century or so has bathing become an essential requirement of everyday life. This is why built-in bathtub and shower units were invented. They’re cheap, quick to install and easy to maintain. But if you’re only looking for efficiency, you could be missing out on a lot of other luxuries a bathtub could provide. Clawfoot tubs have been around for generations, and though they preserve that antique look of the past, they have been thoroughly modified over time to offer modern conveniences.
Corian and Silestone are often mentioned in the same breath when discussing kitchen countertop materials, as if they were just different brands of the same type of material.
How do these two popular countertop surfaces compare?
Corian countertop material is made from a plastic resin - trade marked by Dupont. It is made from a combination of an acrylic copolymer, and an alumina trihydrate filler. Basically it is a plastic material that can be pigmented to practically any color, and be provided with a large number of textures.
The kitchen is the one room in the house that can have several different types of tiles, in different applications, and they all will enhance your kitchen beautifully. When choosing kitchen tile for your home consider where it is going to go first. Glossy tile that goes on a wall will not be the same as flooring tile. Flooring tile has to be safe to walk on, and a glossy floor kitchen tile could be unsafe under foot. Here are tips for choosing the right application and type of tile for your kitchen.