Tile Style: Creating Beautiful Kitchens, Baths & Interiors with Title [Hardcover]

Heather E. Adams (Author), Earl G. Adams (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2006

With Stone and Designing a Home with Wood, Heather and Earl G. Adams brought us inspirational style guides to using two of the fundamental materials in home design. Now this creative team has turned their attention to tile in all its beauty and utility. Once merely ceramic, today's tile encompasses glass, stone, and cork, among other materials, and Tile Style celebrates tile old and new with 250 color photographs of gorgeous completed rooms as well as step-by-step installation demonstrations.

This comprehensive guide shows how tile can be used in myriad applications-from floors to ceilings and bathrooms to kitchens-as well as in multidimensional tile designs and mosaics. Tile Style is also filled with practical information on choosing, purchasing, installing, and caring for tile. The book is divided into four sections, covering natural and man-made tile materials, decorative uses for tiles and mosaics with instructions for special artistic projects, and a complete guide to installing tile. Projects include laying a stone tile floor and installing a granite tile countertop with a glass and metal backsplash. An extensive appendix section provides home decorators with all they need to know about budgeting a job, hiring an installer or doing it themselves, and maintaining surface tiles.

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About the Author

Heather and Earl G. Adams, Jr. are the founders of Natural Stone Design, a specialty tile showroom in Gulf Breeze, Florida. With years of experience working with tile, they are veterans at offering in-depth advice on designing spaces with natural stone.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Stewart, Tabori and Chang (January 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 158479450X
• ISBN-13: 978-1584794509
• Product Dimensions: 11.9 x 9.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #221,892 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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More About the Author

Heather E. Adams was born Heather Steinbach in Dayton, Ohio spring of 1970. At the age of 8, her family relocated to Gulf Breeze, Florida where she gained an intense love of creative writing. In 1996, Heather and her husband Earl opened a boutique style tile and stone showroom, Natural Stone Design, on the shores of Pensacola Bay that continues to grow and thrive today. Heather and Earl have gone on to write three books, "STONE", "TILE STYLE", and "Designing a home with WOOD". In addition to designing homes with the most beautiful natural materials from across the globe, Heather also writes articles for a variety of magazines, publications and newspapers while putting together concepts for book four. This couple has four children, and has recently traded their busy city life for the serenity of the country. Their quaint farm house surrounded by giant live oaks has grown to include chickens, sheep, horses and a variety of unique creatures. Nature lovers to the core, Heather and Earl also reuse remnants of wood and stone to create unique works of art and massive pieces of furniture. In their opinion, there is no better material to surround yourself with. Elements of nature emit an energy, pure and clean. This can become the foundation of mental and physical well being within the walls of your personal dwelling.

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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the BEST!, February 7, 2006

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Monica S. (NC - USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tile Style: Creating Beautiful Kitchens, Baths & Interiors with Title (Hardcover)

I have always been an avid DIY'er and a passionate lover of tile, so I have just about every book on the subject. I've been waiting for the release this newest book TILE STYLE and let me tell you, it does not disappoint. Truly an all inclusive book, it covers in great detail everything tile including natural stone, glass, metal, mosaics, terra cotta, brick, porcelain, ceramic, cork and numerous decorative tiles. Not only will you learn the qualities of each, but how to chose, design with, install and care for them as well. The book is filled with beautiful photos of tiled rooms (even the installation sections are full color). And when it comes to the installation sections, this has to be one of the most detailed, yet simply presented of my entire collection. Plus, the projects incorporate the newest setting methods and materials in conjunction with the most current trends in kitchens, baths and flooring such as a granite tile countertop, a glass and metal backsplash and setting a travertine tile floor! Beautiful, extremely informative and cutting edge - a must have tile book!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Tile, May 12, 2007

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Kristina Bourdeau "book hungry" (Walnut Creek, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tile Style: Creating Beautiful Kitchens, Baths & Interiors with Title (Hardcover)

This is a great book about tile. It has creative, inexpensive ways to upgrade your tile look and to help enhance your end result. There are beautiful pictures of tile work someone would actually install into their own home. Highly recommend this book for the person who is looking for creative ideas.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Ideas, Ideas, & More Ideas, February 14, 2007

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J. E. Stephens "Jeanne" (Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tile Style: Creating Beautiful Kitchens, Baths & Interiors with Title (Hardcover)

This book has some wonderful examples of tile projects to inspire you to do your own. After I read the book I did my own project and it turned out well. The book is packed full of useful information to help anyone complete their own project.