We were blown away when we received these very nice photos from a customer who used our Solana Glass subway tiles in our Cool Blue color as the primary tile for their shower. We love the tile pebbles the customer used on the shower floor and inset in a shower shelf. We have never seen the two paired together before but we love the look.

Keep in mind when doing such a project that our Solana Glass subway tiles also come available with matching glass tile quarter round trim pieces which are also in stock at any time.

We would love to hear what you think about the glass subway tiles in cool blue paired with the river rock pebbles. Leave a comment below with your thoughts which we promise to share with our readers.

Looking for an easy way to build a shower shelf in to your newly remodeled shower? Is your contractor unsure or unfamiliar with building a shower shelf from scratch? Innovis has been making shower products for many years and their Recess-It units are an excellent choice for shower shelf installations.

The Innovis Recess-It products are made of a corrosion resistant alloyed aluminum with an elastomeric-waterproofing and anti-fracture coating combined with an aggregate bonding base. Geez, bet you can’t say that three times quickly! What that means in English is the products are pretty tough, tile materials will bond to the Recess-It units with no problem, and their tough and durable construction will stand the test of time in your newly remodeled shower.

Head on over to the Innovis site, find a local distributor for their products and do consider the Recess-It units for your upcoming project. We can speak from experience that they are very well made and they will perform very well for any tile project.

We need to make warehouse room in a hurry so we are offering a one day sale on our Solana Glass mosaic 1” x 1” tiles in any color blend. For Friday only take $2.00 per sf off of the regular price of $9.99 per sf and pay only $7.99 per sf for any order of 10 sheets or more. Call in your order to us at 888 260-7371 and we will process your order by phone and ship the same day for any order placed before 1 p.m. PST.

Enjoy your weekend everybody and we look forward to your call!

We spend a lot of time and money planning our remodeling projects and getting our details just the way we want them. The final installation will be very permanent in your home so for this reason we always recommend that homeowners spend a little bit more if that’s what it takes to get exactly what you want.

Look at completed project photos on our site and elsewhere to see just how beautiful a bathroom or kitchen can look without spending a lot of money. The fixtures and Beveled tiles in the photo above work well together and don’t have to cost an arm and a leg. Our Cottage Lane tiles in a Beveled or a flat edge are a perfect fit for any bathroom or kitchen remodeling project.

And for this week only, we will offer a 10% order discount to any customer purchasing 30 square feet or more of our Cottage Lane 2 x 4 or 3 x 6 tiles. This offer expires Friday July 23rd at our close of business. Call in your order to 888 260-7371 and get the tiles that you want at a price that is affordable to all.

We often write about our subway tiles and we try to suggest different ways of installing and using subway tiles in the home. We haven’t been very active in presenting complimentary products to use along with our subway tiles so we thought that we would take the time to do just that in today’s post.

We like the Somerset collection of bathroom faucets and fixtures from Grohe because this collection brings together a little bit of both traditional and modern design. The Somerset collection of products also seem to have a solid and substantial feel to them and they always manage to operate smoothly.

Customers we know who have used the Grohe Somerset products seem to be happy with the consistent product performance and contractors and homeowners generally say that Grohe products install easily.

Have a look at the Grohe Somerset collection as a faucet and fixture possibility when you choose any of our beautiful Subway tile collections.

Save 20% this week only Monday through Wednesday on purchases of 10 sheets or more of our Solana Glass Mosaic 1” x 1” tiles in any color. Simply call in to our toll free phone number to place your order at 1 888 260-7371 and mention the Solana Glass Mosaic Tile discount offer from the AnchorBayTile blog and we will deduct the 20% from any order of 10 sheets or more.

This is just our way to keep those summer remodeling and renovation projects going with a nice incentive for potential customers to use our tiles. This offer is only being offered on our blog so it is a special Thank you to our blog readers for taking the time to read some of the blog posts we love to write.

We look forward to speaking with you this week.

Our customers are passionate about their ceramic subway tiles and we do our best to keep our clients happy by updating our ceramic subway tile choices regularly. Each of our ceramic subway tiles comes with a full selection of trim and edge pieces as well as a nice selection of decorative liners and border pieces.

For those in the planning stages for tiling a kitchen backsplash or a bathroom shower take note of how you are going to finish edges, corners and areas where you will not be tiling to cabinets or ceilings. In the case of edges where you have an exposed edge that needs a finish piece, a trim piece such as a quarter round or bullnose trim piece works perfectly. In many of those cases where you will not be tiling to just under your cabinets in the kitchen or the ceiling in the shower, you will use a tile liner or border piece to finish and complete your job.

We have quite a selection of tile liners and borders both for our Cottage Lane non-crackle glossy tiles as well as for our Cardiff crackle tile series. Check in with us for each of our ceramic subway tile choices to find the decorative molding pieces that makes your tile project “pop”.

Give us a call or send us an email if you have any tile project questions that we may be able to answer. We would be happy to help.

We’ve had a few questions recently thrown our way on what can and can not be done with the installation of subway tiles. When we get these questions we always try to be honest by saying there really are no hard and fast rules on installing subway tiles. That being said, the “traditional” look and how probably 95% or more of subway tiles are installed is in the running brick pattern which we are all so familiar with.

The running brick pattern is ubiquitous in subway tile installations. It doesn’t matter whether the tiles are ceramic, glass, marble, or some other stone subway tiles most folks will opt for the traditional look for how they want their tiles installed.

We do however see a few subway tile installations that actually come out quite well where the tiles are installed vertically rather than horizontally. As we said, there is no right or wrong way to install subway tiles but installing them vertically gives a space a different look and a new perspective on subway tile installation. Have a look at some of the vertically installed subway tile photos that are out there and you just might like what you see.

We love the look of our client’s new bathroom where she kindly chose several products from our “green” line of tiles including our Cork mosaic tiles for her bathroom floor and our Kaguya Bamboo subway 2 x 4 tiles in the Kansai color for the bathroom walls. This was mostly a DIY project where the homeowners did the work themselves and as we can all see the project came out great.

The client sent us some very helpful feedback on the installation of the two tile materials since the client kind of “learned as they went” due to the fact that they were not professional tile installers. As we write in our installation instructions on the AnchorBayTile website for each product, the client learned that it is really important to protect the material before and after grouting by applying a light coat of water-based polyurethane to the material which makes grout clean up quite a bit easier.

In the end, the client got the hang of the tile installation as the project progressed and we really do think that they did very nice work.

We hope that our cork mosaic tiles and our bamboo subway tiles together look enticing enough to our blog readers where you would consider using each of the two materials together in your upcoming tile project. If this is the case, please do give us a call since we would be willing to provide materials discounts to you in exchange for project photos.

Please give us a call at our office if you have an interest in our offer.

We were reading recently where traditional design is the most popular design style for homes in America. There are different styles within traditional design and collectively those styles represent much of the design focus of the American homeowner. Within traditional design one would also include design styles such as classic, colonial, and country to name a few though there may be more. Subway ceramic tiles are timeless and are a great fit with design plans that call for a traditional design.

Traditional design has evolved over the years to include some elements today that may not have been as prominent in homes from years past. The use of fabrics and texture today as design elements is one example of how traditional design has evolved over the years.

Subway ceramic tiles on the other hand have been around in the American architectural and building world for more than 100 years now and the look remains as “fresh and timeless” today as it did when it first appeared in homes around the turn of the century. This was mostly in the early 1900’s Arts & Crafts movement made popular in the east and Midwest at the time.

Subway tiles provide a beautiful visual focal point for any kitchen backsplash or a clean and timeless look for a bathroom shower in today’s American home. The typical subway tile installation calls for the brick shaped 3 x 6 or 2 x 4 tiles to be installed in a “running brick” pattern that has gone unchanged since subway tiles were first introduced. There are folks who may take liberties with the running brick pattern to better suit their tastes and install their subway tiles vertically instead of horizontally (for example) or some that may install them horizontally but parallel and on top of each other one on top of the other.

Whatever works best for you always seems to work well for subway tile installations. Feel free to be creative with subway tiles and install them any way you like. We would love to see some of the more creative subway tile installations out there. If your home qualifies for a unique, creative subway tile installation feel free to email us photos that we can share with our blog readers on a future post.