15
Dec
Mini kitchen makeover with Geo tiles
by Corinne Twining
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Showing a complete new range of tiles is not easy when you don’t have lots of lovely finished installations to show what they might look like in real life. So – lucky us – we seized the opportunity to update our kitchen, vintage 2003, which unfortunately had some rather boring plain tiles, Cyprus not having much to choose from back in those days.
It just wasn’t practicable to re-tile completely so we looked at over-tiling the hob area (a favourite interior design quick-fix of mine anyway) and if we were very careful, the tiles would just fit. But the first problem was picking the right tiles from our range of gorgeous colours: normally you pick base tiles to complement décor tiles but for us it was the other way round. Hmm. The best colour to match the ever so slightly pinkish beige tile was ‘Moss’, and Geo Moss and Lilac was the definite favourite for the décor tiles. There followed a duel, whoops, dual approach to putting together the abstract design, agreement finally reached after several glasses of wine and using the Tile Pattern Designer. Phew.
Click on the first image to see how it went..
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- Smart – but plain
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- Precisely measured space so we started from the bottom
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- Spacers only 1mm (for the precisely measured space!)
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- Layout by the Tile Pattern Designer
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- Here comes the colour
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- Ready for the cuts under the extractor
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- Tiles firmly anchored and marked up
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- Cutting with an angle grinder. Glasses on – see the sparks
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- Takes more than one cut. Slow and careful
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- Nibble the edges for a good straight line
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- Fitting under the extractor canopy
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- Adjusting the spacers – handmade tiles are not always square.
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- Grouted with mid grey to prevent standard white ‘tramlines’
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- Light reflections from all angles
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- The tiles now make a terrific focal point
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