For those of you who read our Blog regularly we certainly do appreciate your keeping up with the comings and goings of AnchorBayTile. And for those of you in the planning stages of a home remodeling project be sure to check back with our Blog regularly to see what specials and discounts we might be offering on any one of our tiles.

This week we are offering a 10% discount on our Kaguya Bamboo tiles in both the subway 2″ x 4″ tiles and the Waterfall design mosaic tiles. The 10% discount runs for 3 days until July 27th at our close of business. A five sheet minimum purchase is required and there are no returns or refunds on our sale items.

Take advantage of this sale to upgrade your home this summer with the beautiful look of modern and contemporary Bamboo tiles. Phone in your order to us at 1 888 260-7371 when you are ready to complete your purchase.

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.

Just in time for summer remodeling projects we have lowered our pricing on our popular Solana Glass Mosaic tile blends colors to $9.99 per square foot. These tiles are an excellent choice for kitchen backsplashes, showers, tub surrounds, and swimming pools. Glass mosaic tiles will add a nice element of color to any room and because of the wide variety of color combinations offered they can be coordinated with most any cabinet, counter, and fixture combination possible.

Use glass mosaic tiles as a primary wall covering or as an accent strip together with natural stone, ceramic tile or any primary tile selection. Check out the Solana glass mosaic tiles color choices and you will find a full range of colors available to coordinate with natural color rooms, modern and contemporary décor, and even traditional design areas where glass tiles would add a beautiful color compliment as one can see in some of the project photos on our website.

The Solana glass mosaic tiles are in stock and ready for immediate shipment to your door. Order a sample today to view the colors then place your order soon to take advantage of tremendous new pricing on our popular glass mosaic tiles.

We just received some very nice project photos from a wonderful client in California who paired our Classic Hexagon un-glazed 1” porcelain tiles together with our Cottage Lane 3 x 6 subway tiles in our Snowflake white color. We love the look and we thought that the project came out quite nicely.

We recently talked about how hexagon tiles go well with subway tiles, much like, well…..peanut butter and jelly. We wanted to share these recent project photos as an example of a look that can be achieved with our tiles on a real project that has been completed.

If you are considering a similar look in your bathroom drop by our website and have a look at our Cottage Lane subway tiles that are available in a 3” x 6” and a 2” x 4” in either a flat or a beveled edge and our Classic Hexagon 1” tiles available in either white or black. Both tiles are in stock and ready for immediate shipment.

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.

We recently had a client use our Solana Glass subway tile in both the Cappuccino and the Khaki color for her Kitchen Backsplash and we think that the project came out beautiful. Have a look at how the two colors together really add some depth and modern color to the clients home and the two colors also coordinate quite well with the cabinets and countertop.

Our Solana glass subway tiles in 3” x 6” are available in seven wonderful color choices and our glass subway tiles are a perfect choice for upgrading a kitchen backsplash as is pictured above, or for modernizing a bathroom shower as one can see by viewing different glass subway tile installation pictures located on the AnchorBayTile website.

The Solana glass subway tiles come in a standard flat edge or even a Beveled edge glass subway tile option to ensure that you have many style and color choices. We have also made a coordinating glass tile quarter round available in colors that match any of our glass subway tiles. The glass tile quarter round is used when a project calls for a trim or edge piece to cover an exposed edge. The glass tile quarter rounds can also be used as accent strips to go with any ceramic, porcelain, or stone tiles.

Order your Solana glass subway tile samples today and the samples we guarantee will arrive at your door in a week or less so you can make your tile decisions quickly. We look forward to having the opportunity to work with you.

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.

Ever wonder how Cork goes from Cork Tree to your Home as our Cork Mosaic Tiles. It is quite an interesting process and is a story worth telling. Read on for a little fun history of how Cork came to be used as a material in commerce.

Cork started being used in commerce way back in the late 1600’s by a name that many of you may be familiar with – Dom Perignon. Mr. Perignon was a French Benedictine monk at the time who adapted Cork materials to close bottles of sparkling wine. Fast forward four centuries later and as you all know wine corks have been considered the ultimate wine stopper since its cellular structure makes it easy to compress in to the neck of a bottle where it expands to form a tight seal.

Where does Cork actually come from?
To obtain cork material used to make cork products, Cork is harvested from the outer bark of cork oak trees, always by hand by workers using axes designed to slit the bark without harming the deeper layers of the tree. It can take two decades for a tree to grow old enough for the first harvest, and subsequent culling is done only once every nine or ten years. Most of the cork today is still used by the wine industry primarily, followed next by the shoe and fashion industries who are finding more and more uses for this wonderful material.

We use 100% post-industrial cork material that is not used by the wine industry in order to make our Cork mosaic tiles. We slice the corks and then shape them in to the penny round shapes which you see as our cork mosaic tiles. We have them professionally mesh-mounted for us and then sent to our warehouse for safe keeping before our kind customers decide to use our tiles for their home remodeling projects.

In a nutshell, a fairly straight-forward process from beginning to end and it has worked very well for many years. If we didn’t answer any questions you may have on the making of our Cork Mosaic tiles feel free to give us a shout and we will be glad to answer any additional questions that you may have.