For those of you re-doing a bathroom or a kitchen with Hexagon tiles as your flooring choice don’t miss this opportunity to lock in a great price on our porcelain un-glazed Hexagon tiles. For today only we are offering 5% off of any order of 20 sheets or more of our Classic Hexagon tiles. We will also offer a discount of 10% on any Hexagon tile order of 40 sheets or more.

Purchases must be made by phone by calling us at 1 888 260-7371 and all sales using this discount will be final. So plan ahead and take advantage of this special one-day deal we are offering for our blog readers. If a bathroom re-do is not in your plans then send along a link to this blog post to a friend you know who might be renovating a bathroom or a kitchen.

Thank you for reading our blog and we look forward to talking with you on Monday.

Can anyone guess the name and the color of the tiles which were used in the photo above? If you can, leave us a comment on our blog with the correct name and color of the tile seen in the photo above and we will award the winner 10 FREE square feet of this tile for use on your tile project. The comment must be left on this blog post by 5 p.m. PST today – Friday. There will be one winner only so the first correct comment wins.

Have fun!

We spent some time traveling this past week to San Francisco and we had the pleasure of staying in a classic boutique hotel built in 1929 that glows each day with the beauty found in its history. We were traveling for pleasure and we wanted to try out one of the historic hotels in a city full of such properties. We intentionally will leave out the name of the hotel but we can share with our readers that if you have not stayed in some of the classic and historic hotels in this country then it is an experience worth trying.

On our arrival the lobby walls greeted us with wonderful paintings and murals dating back to the 1940’s and 1950’s. The wood work in the lobby and the hallways is exquisite and is something that is just too expensive nowadays to replicate in new hotel construction in any of the chain hotels that operate in the U.S. There was an old-style “cage” elevator (not sure of the proper name) with a regular door and a metal door that slides closed to take us from the lobby to our room upstairs on the third floor. For our tile friends and blog readers we can share that the rooms all have classic hexagon tile floors and beautiful subway tile on the walls. This look is a fixture of many homes and bathrooms in the San Francisco area.

And finally, given that cars were not the preferred mode of transportation for Americans when the hotel was built, the garage entrance is smaller than many walk-in closets that I have seen and the parking area so small I am not so sure how any car finds a way to edge in to one of the few available parking spaces. But they actually do somehow.

Again, we loved the comfort provided by the family who owns this nice little hotel that we stayed in and we appreciate their hospitality on our recent trip.

We have given several clues in our description of the hotel where we stayed. If anyone can leave a comment on this post with the name of the correct hotel in San Francisco where we stayed, you will win 10 free square feet of either our Cottage Lane Subway Tiles in 3 x 6 or 2 x 4 inch or 10 free square feet of our crackle Cardiff 2 x 4 or 3 x 6 subway tiles. We look forward to seeing if anyone can come up with the correct answer.

Japanese firm Daiwa House has designed an emergency mobile home called the EDV-01 and is designed to generate it’s own electricity and water for two adults for an entire month. Perfect for relief agencies in the cases of natural disasters and crisis situations, this emergency home design would have been perfect for the FEMA folks to deploy in New Orleans following the Katrina hurricane.

The stainless steel container is 18 feet long, 6 feet wide and 6 feet tall. On demand from the home’s owner, flip a switch and a hydraulic pump raises the walls to form a second floor with fold-away beds and an office space. The ground floor holds a shower and bio-toilet, as well as a kitchen that cooks food with induction heating.
Equipped with a rooftop solar system and a fuel cell to generate power that’s stored in lithium-ion batteries, the emergency house can also pluck enough moisture from the air to collect about 5 gallons of drinkable water per day.

If this emergency home functions as advertised it will be a big draw for governments and communities around the country as an option for deploying in disaster situations.

Our nations leaders announced a tentative deal to cut the nations debt by a significant amount. Well, we want to do our part to contribute to our fellow Americans savings.

For 2 days only through our close of business on Tuesday August 2nd, we are offering our customers 10% off of any purchase of our Cork Mosaic tiles consisting of 20 square feet or more.

Place your order by phone by calling us at 888 260-7371 anytime today or tomorrow and we will phone you back as soon as we can.

Remember, our Cork mosaic tiles look beautiful on the floor or wall so act now to get the home you have always dreamed of using our eco-friendly tiles.

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!

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.

With affordable housing on the minds of many companies and organizations in both the public and the private sector these days given the dire state of the nation’s housing market, some students from the architecture program at Auburn University just might have come up with one of the most promising solutions for affordable housing proposed to date.

Rural Studio is a program of the School of Architecture at Auburn University in west Alabama. For the past six years, their students have been designing and building low-income housing, for a home that costs only $20K total. Costs are broken down with $10K allocated to materials and $10K allocated to labor. There is a Rural Development loan available through the federal government where very low income people in rural areas are able to borrow a maximum of $20,000 for home repair or construction.

The Rural Studio embarks on many projects each year, but the 20K House project was started in order to create a precedent that homes could be built on this extremely low budget that would outlast and outperform substandard housing or trailers that many in this very low income bracket are living in.
Given the $20K cost of this home, under the Federal Section 502 Direct Loan program the resident’s monthly payment would be about $100 which clearly is very affordable for almost any potential homeowner.

For more information visit the schools website and you can view more photos of the completed homes here.

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.

The producers of the TV show House Crashers which airs on the diy network have selected our Cork Mosaic Tiles as the flooring choice for an episode they titled “Bar Basement Lounge”. The show is scheduled to air this evening July 18th on the diy network at 6 p.m. EST so please tune in and let us know what you think.

Our cork mosaic tiles were chosen over many other materials for the homeowners basement area and we were both proud and pleased when we were notified that our tiles had been selected.

We would love for our customers and our friends to leave a comment below on our Blog to let us know what you think of the homeowners new look basement when you watch the show. Thank you as always for your continued support!