Most of us can never get enough of a good thing so we thought it was a great time to remind our customers of an ongoing offer available at AnchorBayTile.com. For those purchasing our Solana Glass Subway Tile products or our Solana Beveled Glass Subway Tile products, have we got an offer for you.

Any customers who purchase $750 or more of any of our Glass subway tile products will receive one 7” glass tile blade to use for making cuts to your new glass subway tiles. We strongly recommend using a glass tile blade for making cuts to glass tiles and this is an opportunity to receive a glass tile blade FREE with your purchase.

Simply place your tile order online via the AnchorBayTile website and on any order over $750 we will include a 7” glass tile blade with the order. Nothing else to do other than that. This is just one way we try to show our customers our appreciation for choosing our tiles for their home remodeling project.

And as always, we truly do appreciate your business and your support!

Our Bamboo Subway 3” x 6” tiles are an excellent selection for a home or commercial location that is planning on incorporating green building elements in to the design plan. The project spotlighted in the photos above happens to be a kitchen backsplash project where the homeowner incorporated green building elements in to the project wherever they could. We are pleased that our Bamboo subway tiles were chosen as the visual focal point in this very beautiful and modern looking kitchen.

The homeowner originally came to us skeptical at first about putting Bamboo tiles in their kitchen. We talked them through the particulars of the project and walked them through how the Bamboo tiles are an excellent choice for a green kitchen remodeling project and how they had nothing to fear about putting our Bamboo tiles on their kitchen backsplash.

The homeowners were comfortable with our description of the tiles and ultimately chose our Bamboo tiles in the Chestnut color. When the homeowner described the kitchen to us over the phone we originally had some reservations about how the chestnut color bamboo tiles would coordinate with the darker color cabinets. But the other elements in the kitchen including the faucet, lighting fixtures, and the appliances all worked well together and the Bamboo tiles we believe tied each of these elements together.

Have a look at the photos and form your own opinion. And for those planning their green building project now please remember to keep us in mind as you perform your search for green, environmentally friendly tiles for your home or commercial location.

For our interior designer and commercial customers who often work on large projects we wanted to let you know that we offer pallet pricing on our Cottage Lane Subway tiles. This program also applies to homeowners working on what might be several residential bathrooms and / or a kitchen project that requires a large amount of subway tile to complete the project.

In this case, send us an email to sales-at-anchorbaytile.com and give us some project detail along with the quantity of tile desired. We will contact you with a quote and a timeframe when you can expect to receive delivery. Our Cottage Lane subway tiles are always in stock so you won’t have to wait long to receive your order.

We also stock a full line of trim tiles to go with our Cottage Lane field tiles as well as a nice selection of liners and border tiles. Remember, with any Beveled tiles you will want to use a quarter round trim tile as your edge piece while any of the standard or “flat” tiles as we call them around here are fine when used with either a Bullnose or a Quarter Round trim piece.

If you have any questions at all about ordering tiles in larger quantities feel free to give us a call or send us a quick email and we will reply as soon as possible to your inquiry.

As always, thank you to all of our customers for their continued and repeated support.

We know that there are quite a few subway tile aficionados who want to use subway tiles in their home but need some ideas on how to “dress up” an area that might require more than the traditional “running brick” subway tile pattern. We think we have just about seen and heard it all but we try to offer suggestions when we can to customers who call and ask us our opinion on what to do in a particular area of their home. Better than our suggestions though are photos from our actual customers of completed tile project installations showing just what can be done with our subway tiles.

Thank you very much to this customer who is here in Arizona and was kind enough to send in photos of her tile project where she used our Cardiff Crackle 3 x 6 subway tiles in the Sand color as a kitchen backsplash tile for her home. We love how the tiles work well together with the colors of the cabinets and the countertop in the kitchen. And we especially like what our customer did with the area over her cook top.

Look at the beautiful and very creative Herringbone pattern that she did to really bring some design inspiration to the kitchen. We love the look that it gives to the cook top area and while I have never been in the kitchen I can imagine that the Herringbone design serves as a visual focal point for the kitchen area when guests are over to visit.

For potential clients thinking about using our subway tiles in your home please visit our website for more project photos which can be found by clicking on the blue more photos button on each product page located on our website. We appreciate you dropping by our blog to read what we have to say and we hope that you will make it a point to come back often when you are looking for ideas for your upcoming remodeling project and you will also refer any friends who may have a remodeling project on their mind for the upcoming year.

That is a question asked by many customers when designing their kitchen or bath remodeling project. We believe that neither product is “better” in terms of quality or durability since both will be installed on a wall rather than a floor and will not be subject to the beating that a floor tile takes on a daily basis. That said and both tiles being equal, one should choose their tile based on the look they want to achieve in their home once a project is complete.

Both ceramic subway tile and glass subway tiles have their place and depending on the design style of a project one tile might work better than another. Glass subway tiles are more appropriate in a modern and contemporary setting while Ceramic subway tiles fit in better with a more classic and traditional look. While these are loose guidelines to follow they are by no means absolute and written in stone.

Choose your tile by what makes you happy and which tiles fit in to the design best that you are envisioning for your space. We have clients who have installed either glass or ceramic tiles in a range of different spaces and when coordinated with cabinets, paint colors, fixtures and other items in the room the tile always looks like it belonged in that area all along.

So don’t fret over what tile to choose for your area. Plan, plan, plan and coordinate the colors and components that will be in the room together. Doing so will ensure that your project will be a successful one.

We wanted to show you some product combinations that look really nice together using items from some of our different product categories. The first two products that we decided to spotlight involve our subway tiles and our glass mosaic tiles. This combination might not be so obvious which is why we have selected it first.

For those working on a kitchen backsplash with a large area to cover and for those working on any shower tiling project, we have a subway tile and a glass mosaic tile combination that might just be right for you. Have a look at our Cottage Lane subway tiles and our Solana Glass Mosaic tiles in 1” x 1”.
Let’s go beyond the snowflake white and the summer beige color and choose our sleeper color which we call Almond. We have had our cottage lane subway tiles in development for some time and last summer 2010 when we added colors to our Solana glass mosaic tile collection we actually created the Seychelles color blend with the Almond cottage lane color in mind. The colors in the Seychelles glass mosaic tile blend work very well in combination with our almond subway tile color.

How to put the two together? Use the Seychelles blend as an accent strip to add color when using the almond color subway tiles for a kitchen backsplash or a bathroom shower. Or, use the Seychelles glass mosaic tile blend and cut them in to 2” x 2” or 3” x 3” squares to serve as accent pieces placed at different points along a backsplash installation or in a tiled shower. Glass tiles serve as a wonderful accent choice when used together with subway tiles that are installed in a large tiled area that needs some color.

Give us a call if you have any questions about incorporating glass tiles in to your subway tile design. For those considering our almond color subway tiles together with our Solana Seychelles color glass mosaic tiles, we would be willing to discount your order in return for photos of the completed installation showing both tiles used together. If this is you, please do give us a call closer to the time when you are ready to proceed with your project.

We had a wonderful client who completed their bathroom shower project recently and was kind enough to share their tile project photos with us showing our Solana Glass Subway tiles in Cool Blue installed.

The client we think did a very nice job with the glass tile installation and notice the matching Solana glass tile quarter rounds which frame the shower niche area. Thank you very much for sharing your project photos so we can share them with our potential customers. Call us anytime if we can assist you in planning and preparing for your tile project. We would be happy to help.

We still receive questions from clients asking about “how do our 2 x 4 tiles come”? Meaning, folks want to know if they come as loose pieces or are they mesh-mounted.

I don’t want to begin to say how long the typical installation would take if our 2” x 4” tiles came as loose pieces. Our 2 x 4 Cottage Lane subway tiles come mesh-mounted on a sheet for ease of installation. This way, any installer only needs to pick up a sheet and place it on the wall in to the mortar bed and then make any adjustments once the mortar has begun to slowly cure.

That’s really it since the 2 x 4 tiles are quite easy to install and the mounting of the tiles facilitates these tiles easy installation. Call us if you have any questions during installation and we will do our best to try and help.

We thought we would post a photo of our new Cottage Lane Subway tiles now resting comfortably in our warehouse here in Tempe, AZ. We love when we get new material in since it is always exciting to debut a new tile line. There is so much to do with a new line but the first thing to do is finding space for all of those pallets.

Order your Cottage Lane subway tile samples today. Once you see the tiles you will see just how beautiful it really is. We can’t wait to receive our first installation photos which we expect in the next 30 days or so. Check back often since we will post them once we have them.

Last week we debuted our new Cottage Lane Subway tiles on our website and we are very pleased that the tiles are finally here. We have been working on these tiles for some time now and we have made countless product modifications through the design process to arrive at the final product which you see on our website.

Our Cottage Lane Subway tiles are available in two sizes in a 3” x 6” and a 2” x 4” tile size and each size is available with a standard Flat edge or a Beveled edge. There are also three colors available which are Snowflake White, Summer Beige, and Almond. We hope to one day introduce new colors as the collection grows and we receive feedback from our clients on what colors are most desirable..

For those potential customers looking for Subway tiles we ask you to order samples of our Cottage Lane subway tile series and compare our tiles with any subway tile on the market. Unlike the wafer thin subway tiles that are common elsewhere, our tiles come on a thick double-fired ceramic body which is glazed using some of the finest equipment in the tile industry. These attributes together produce what we feel is one of the finest quality subway tiles on the market, all at very affordable pricing for most any project budget.

Call or email us anytime for answers to any questions you may have about our products. We look forward to working with our clients looking to add the beautiful look of subway tiles to their homes.