Ideas about Making Full Use of Remaining Tiles and Mosaics

As we know, building an advocate economical society is the responsibility of our human beings, when we decorate our house, more or less, some material will be left behind, we often feel pity to throw them, but it would take space for keeping them. How to make full use of these remaining tiles and mosaics for further decoration? Now Colorbuilding show you some ideas about recycling waste materials. You can turn waste into wealth by yourself!

1. Decorated the entrance hall

Many people like decorating special ceramic tile at the entrance hall. Firstly, you should estimate the area of the residual tiles, then set aside an appropriate space beside the door, after breaking all the tiles into irregular shapes, you can begin to pave these tile pieces to the space, it’s not only fashionable looking, but also save your expenses.

  

2. Using tile pieces DIY paintings:

Beautiful tile piece is an elegant decorations in itself, when tiles are damaged during working, you can collect and collage these pieces with different colors, shapes, it would become an unique "painting".

  

3. Using tile & mosaic pieces making appliances:

Another function of tile and mosaic is used to make some appliances, such as lamp, cup mat, pot mat, etc. Mosaic is the best choice for decorating these small size appliances, 80 x 80 mm single chip mosaic can be used as a cup mat; 30 x 30 mm mosaic can be made into pot mat.

 

4. Decorate balcony:

Set a border about 80 mm in the edge of the balcony floor, using the broken tiles make partition of balcony will bring a causal style and different visual effect.

If you have more ideas about using waste tiles and mosaic pieces or if you have your own work, please kindly share with all of us! We are eager to see it!

Process of Making Tile Murals

Tile always works as artistically role for the decoration and DIY, no matter for the bathroom wall or outdoor wall, inspirations can be found from these colorful tiles pieces. People who love DIY and design are crazy about making tile murals by themselves. They will be very proud of themselves once their works are display or put on the wall. You may wonder how to make tile murals, in fact, from making a small decorative table to a giant sculpture; the basic process is the same. 

Instructions

1. Cement board is the best choice as the backing of tile murals, maybe it’s more convenience or cheaper by using other surfaces, but wood and other materials warp are easier to turn over when you are working. At the same time, choose smooth, glossy tiles; they will make the grouting step much easier.

2. In order to get recognizable images, you should draw a simple design on the board, with this outline as a guide, paste the tile pieces to the board using tile binder, and remember to leave about 1/4 inch gaps for all tiles.

3. After pasting all the tiles, wait the binder to dry completely, begin to smear grout to the gap of tiles, make sure the gaps are filled completely.

4. Before the grout begin to dry, wipe the surface of the tile with a dry sponge immediately, remove the extra grout and clean the surface, keep wiping until the tiles are all clean and the grout is relatively smooth.

Warnings: It’s especially important to wipe the grout well when it’s wet, or it will be very difficult to clean once it become dry.

The 25th China International Ceramic and Bathroom Fair

The 25th China Foshan International Ceramic & Bathroom Fair begins from Apr.18.2015 to Apr.22.2015. We Colorbuilding had a visit to the fair as previous years on Apr.21. It is a good time to obtain new trends of tiles since exhibitors are trying their best to show his strength and new arrivals. Unfortunately, it seems that no much new thing on the fair although the decoration is beautiful.

Décor tiles are one of the important roles in the fair. Many exhibitors show the encaustic tiles at their booths. Some are handmade, some printed, some hexagon, etc. They were popular after the cersaie fair 2013. 

Rustic tiles also can be seen everywhere in the fair. The tiles have no much change, but more decorative accessories. Compare with glossy micro-crystal tiles, I like rustic tiles much more because of its rural style.

Mosaic City is the second place we went to. The most impressive product for me is full body glass mosaic. The smallest size can be 5x5mm! It makes the mural more vivid and beautiful. Hexagon and lantern shape mosaic are still the fashion in the Mosaic City, no matter it is made of glass, ceramic, shell, metal, or stone, etc. Mosaic puzzles and hand cut murals are the most attractive artworks in all the show rooms. 

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