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Luke Arthur Wells

Interior Designers Are Using Tiles in This Small Way to Elevate a Home's Thresholds — And It's Even a Weekend Project You Could Do Yourself

Tobacco-colored and wood kitchen with pink checkboard tiled kickbacks.

Tiling might seem like a big project — such as a bathroom or kitchen renovation — however, there are smaller ways to use tile in a design that are, actually, relatively easy to achieve, but bring the sense of intentionality that comes with a material like ceramic, porcelain, or stone that just doesn’t come from knocking something up out of a sheet of MDF in quite the same way.

My favorite tile trend at the moment? Tiled borders. Small interventions of checkerboard tiles are utilized brilliantly to highlight something unexpected and bring a sense of whimsy to the design of a space.

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