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ask an expert H&G’s interiors guru Rose-Marie Hillier extols the virtues of transforming a room with tiles, then shares her favourites fabrics sourced from around the globe.
Q We want to update our kitchen and bathroom without doing a full renovation. We thought retiling with some fantastic new tiles would be a great, cost-efective way to refresh both rooms. Could you recommend some options?
WRITE IN Send your question, with your name and address, to Rose-Marie via H&G Advice, GPO Box 4088, Sydney, NSW 1028, or email h&g@bauer-media. com.au.
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Angie Frost, via email
A he tile scene is very exciting right now and there are plenty of innovative styles to choose from. here’s a lot to love about the current market favourites: concrete- or timber-look porcelain tiles and encaustic tiles with graphic patterns. Emerging trends identiied at last year’s Cersaie, an annual tile and bathroom ittings exhibition held in Bologna, Italy, included brick-look tiles, chevron shapes, textured tiles in grey tones, cool blues and greens, super-sized tiles, 3D efects and street art/pop art-inluenced styles that add bright splashes of colour and movement. Another trend was tiles made from ‘fragments’; geometric shapes mixed to create a larger composition. here’s a big swing towards extending tiles from the kitchen splashback right up to the ceiling and full-height feature walls in bathrooms. here are plenty of suppliers to choose from. I like the handmade look of the ranges at Tiles of Ezra and Jatana Interiors; Di Lorenzo Tiles ofers an extensive collection of decorative tiles in various materials. > tilesofezra.com; jatanainteriors.com.au; www.dilorenzo.com.au.
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