Decorative Materials - Three Seriously Dreamy Tile Showrooms
March 24, 2012 | filed under: Dealer Spotlight Crush Company News Debris Series
March 24, 2012 | filed under: Dealer Spotlight Crush Company News Debris Series
March 9, 2012 | filed under: Crush Fun-Eco Stories Showroom/Boneyard
We kicked off our Bi-Annual 50% off Boneyard Sale on Friday February 24th. We had some very special guests and eager shoppers visit us from Whole Foods Market. We received a very sweet account of their experience working with Team Fireclay, and how they plan on using the tile that they purchased from the Boneyard in a new Whole Foods Market in Davis, California. This is a great example of being budget conscious without sacrificing quality and overall aesthetic of a project. "My design team and I had so much fun at the Boneyard 50% off sale. We wanted to be the first people at the sale, and in fact, got there before it started. Everyone was incredibly helpful in answering our questions. We were working hard to reduce some of our costs without reducing our aesthetic taste. For our upcoming store in Davis, we have to be creative on our materials due to budget costs. We had some idea of what was in the Boneyard prior, but most of our design work was at 9am, in the actual Boneyard, figuring out linear footages needed. We were of course attracted to glass tile, which we bought almost all of, and figured out that all the sizes were components of each tother. For some large square foot areas, we found small quantities of amazing colors, which we figured out ways to stretch by creating wainscots and mixing. The real work will happen now in figuring out what we need in addition to what we bought, which we think will only be about 20 square feet." Thanks! Gabrielle Rosi Senior Design Coordinator Whole Foods Market - Northern California We'll be wrapping up our 50% off Boneyard Sale on Saturday, March 10, 2012. There is still plenty of great looking 1st quality tile to choose from. We have everything from our Crush 100% Recycled Glass Tile, Debris Series, Vitrail, Hand Painted Cuerda Seca and Hand Made Mexican Saltillos in stock. 5% of all Boneyard Sales are up for grabs between four Charities, CORA, Kiva, Habitat for Humanity, and the Humane Society of Silicon Valley. Shoppers are encouraged to vote for their favorite charity in the Fireclay Tile Showroom through 3pm on Saturday. The very deserving charity winner will be announced on Monday, March 12, 2012. Can't make it into the Showroom for the sale, but want Fireclay Tile in your home, office or school? Use our handy dandy Fireclay Tile Dealer Locator, and find the closest showroom carrying Fireclay Tile near you.February 15, 2012 | filed under: Crush
In the spirit of St. Valentine's Day, we'd like to share another love letter from a Fireclay Tile fan, to help share the love that folks out there have for Fireclay's gorgeous handmade tiles. Angela in Portland, Oregon has a massive Crush on her recently remodeled 1906 farmhouse, bathroom. Angie worked with one of our talented Ceramicists, Sabrina from our San Jose Showroom, where together they created a bathroom using our Crush 100% Recycled Glass Tile, that Angie's 80 year old self (way in the future) would always adore. We're delighted to see how beautiful the finished bathroom came out. There is nothing we love more than to share photos of completed projects with our team of ceramicists who see the project along from raw materials, to fired to glazed, to lovingly packing completed tiles up and sending them out into the world. When I started renovating my 1906 farmhouse I had one priority - the bathroom had to be beautiful with a soaking size tub. I wanted the rest of the house had to retain the farmhouse feel, but the bathroom had to be my spa. My daughter and I love to soak away our frustrations--but when we bought our house the one and only bathroom had a small shower tub that even my then seven year-old, couldn't fully submerse in. Fast forward six years--to a renovation that made our thirty square foot bathroom, into a one hundred-twenty square foot bathroom, complete with a two sink vanity and 6 foot soaking tub. Finding the right tile was the biggest challenge. I bet I visited every tile store in Portland, Oregon and agonized over colors, materials, finishes and sizes. Eventually my mom shared an invaluable piece of advice with me: "If you are agonizing, it isn't right. Keep looking. When you see it, you will know it." Then she sent me seventy-two links to tile. No kidding... SEVENTY-TWO! I wanted to weep. Buried in the middle of all that tile, was a link to the Fireclay Tile website. Soon, I understood what my mom had said because as soon as I saw it, I knew. I loved the Seco tiles, but I couldn't stop thinking about Crush. I played around with both tiles (even tried to mix them at one point), but eventually decided on Crush. I worked with Sabrina over the phone at the Fireclay San Jose, showroom who sent me some samples and patiently answered my questions. She even grabbed some samples and sat at her desk helping me identify the correct shade of white to go with the field of blue I had selected, because I had neglected to ask for samples for the accent and was running out of time (thanks Sabrina - it's perfect!). I love vivid colors (I'd paint the world orange if I could) so deciding between all the lovely Crush colors Fireclay has to offer was difficult. In the end, lambs ear, wallflower and morning glory, won out over habañero and marigold-out of fear that my 80 year-old self would one day resent me. Now I sometimes take side trips into my bathroom just to look at it; it's like having a little spa in my own home. Sometimes I even lean over and pet the tile because I love everything about it; the color, the texture, the feel. Thank you Fireclay! ~Angie Hurley Portland, OregonDecember 12, 2011 | filed under: Design Ideas Crush Debris Series Vitrail
August 4, 2011 | filed under: Crush Fun-Eco Stories Fireclay Manufacturing Press Company News Debris Series Claymonde
