EMPERADOR DARK - Spanish Breeze from Mediterranean Sea

The word "emperador" comes from "emperor", which is the equivalent to the "king" in ancient empires. There is no doubt that makes the Emperador Dark Tiles more elegant and noble. Emperador Dark is a Spanish marble that is mined in the towns Albacete and Murcia. Emperador Dark Marble presents a deep brown background accented with light brown and white veining. It is one of the favorite tiles amongst the architects and designers because of the rich and warm brown tones complimenting many design styles.

A wide range of designs and textures are available on www.dekotile.com. The beautiful warm shades of colors exude a unique glamour when used indoors. You will have numerous options available for every different area of the house, such as your bedroom, kitchen, and even garden. Emperador Dark field tiles and mosaic tiles are also used for bathroom vanities, flooring, and wall cladding.

Your custom installation can be completed with beautiful moldings and borders. DEKO Tile offers a wide selection of designs, as it carries over 60 Emperador Dark items in polished, honed, and tumbled finishes. You may select 2 inch Hexagon Polished Emperador Dark Mosaic Tile to create a unique look in your bathroom or Glass and Emperador Dark mix Mosaic Tile to add depth to your kitchen.

The price range of Emperador Dark Marble Tiles will vary depending on their designs and textures. Their prices can easily be considered affordable when comparing their quality and elegance to other stones. You may benefit from the 30% to 50% lower prices of the DEKO Tile online store compared to the brick-and-mortar showrooms and you can order samples free of shipping to see and touch DEKO Tile's high-end products.

Magic of Travertine Sinks

Bathrooms are key to one’s evaluation about a restaurant, or an hotel, even a house they visit. Creating a unique bathroom may enhance people’s perception about your house. Moreover, your guests may become inspired from your bathroom. Who wouldn’t like to have an inspirational bathroom in their house!

Travertine Sinks are quite impressive components that can transform your bathroom to a unique and admirable room. The travertine sinks bring a luxurous design brightening your bathroom and adding value to your home. You will be able to find the best color and pattern for your bathroom among 49 DEKO Tile Sinks. Yellow, Red, Noce, and Ivory are only some of the color options that DEKO Tile has available. You may also choose your favorite pattern among Drop-in Bowl Sinks, Round Vessels, Serenity Vessels, Round Asymmetrical Cut Edge Sinks, and many more.

WHY TRAVERTINE
The first reason is that it looks beautiful. This is why travertine is a popular natural stone. Another advantage of choosing travertine to use in your property is the wide selection in terms of color and finishing.

The most challenging thing about natural stones is not being able to match easily with each other. This may be an issue especially in marble tiles. However, when it comes to travertine tiles, matching is not a problem at all. The variation of colors in these tiles is high, causing them to be easily matchable, even when you need to replace some in the future. Builders like travertine because of this variation factor, as well as it being an easy material to work with, cut and manipulate.

FAMOUS BUILDINGS MADE OF TRAVERTINE
Travertine has been utilized in construction since early civilization, the most famous one being the Roman Coliseum. The Getty Center in Los Angeles, the lobby of the Willis Tower in Chicago, and the first floor of the UCLA Medical Center are some examples of the extensive use of travertine in modern construction.

Now, you are all set to choose from many travertine sinks to compliment your design. DEKO Tile is now offering free shipping for the most exclusive sinks with a huge variety for very affordable prices. There hasn’t been a better time to add some luxury to your bathroom.

Thassos White Adds Elegance...

Thassos White Marble takes its name from a small Greek island in the Northern Aegean Sea which has been quarried since ancient times. The elegance, beauty and tradition of Thassos White Marble make these tiles a superb selection. It is the shining star of the White Marble category. You can easily add some elegance to your structure by using Thassos White Marble.














It is one of the most famous and the purest white stone ever extracted. Thassos White Marble is a very strong, bright and sparkling natural rock, crystal snow white in color. This stone has been extensively used as a building material since ancient times for statutes of art, buildings, monuments and interiors of homes throughout the centuries.

Thassos White Marble is still very popular today in architecture and construction supplies for residential, commercial and institutional development projects. The most common, yet impressive application of Thassos White Marble tile in architecture is a highly polished tiled floor. Today more than 500.000 cubic feet Thassos White is quarried per year with the majority being exported all over the world in order to be used in numerous projects. Thassos White has the greatest density among all marbles which is 2850 kg/m3, and is convenient for interior and exterior use. There are three main selections of Thassos White Marble, such as Extra, Selective and Commercial. It is produced as slabs, filed tiles, mosaic tiles, and moldings.

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Bring a Piece of European White Luxury to Your Interiors

Hello again everyone!

In our last post, we talked a little bit about the use of marble in the wet areas, what sizes and finishes are more suitable etc; and mentioned about the increasing trend for the white marbles. For those of you who don't know about the different types of white marbles, we thought that we'd give you some information about what characterizes different types of white marbles we carry in our portfolio.

We carry mainly 4 different types of white marbles which are all suitable for both residential and commercial use:

Calacatta Gold is an exquisite white marble from Italy, and it is uniqueness comes from the deep gray veins with occasional taupe/gold highlights on creamy white background. This is the most expensive white marble on the market. Real Calacatta Gold is harder-than-ever to find nowadays because of the increasing cost of excavation and decreasing availability at the quarries in Italy.
Calacatta Gold is also known as Calacatta Oro.

Our Calacatta Bianco is unique to DEKO Tile. This marble is actually quarried in Greece and resembles Calacatta Gold in its creamy/white background and gray/brownish vein structure. This marble is significantly more budget-friendly than the Italian Calacatta Gold but still serves as a good alternative for those customers looking for that simple but sophisticated white look for their interiors.

White Carrara, also known as Bianco Carrara, is another Italian white marble. Carrara is very popular for its subtle, cloudy light gray background with deeper gray veins. The use of Carrara tiles with Carrara mosaics accented with black, such as the basketweave, and the hexagons has become very popular. This marble is widely preferred to create a more art-deco look in the bathrooms.

Finally, Thassos White is the purest of all white marbles. This snow white marble is quarried in Greece, and has a more crystallized structure with occasional light gray highlights. Thassos White is the second-most expensive white marble following Italian Calacatta Gold.

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Use of Marble in the Wet Areas

Hello everyone!

I talk to a lot of customers everyday and a lot of our customers inquire about what kind of tile they can use in the bathroom, especially on the floors of the showers:

• Is it safe to use large tiles?
• Can I use polished tile on the floor?
• Is marble/travertine suitable to be used in wet areas?

Most of the customers I talk to on a daily basis are home-owners who fall in love with our affordable selection of premium products and they need help in answering these kinds of questions. Nowadays, our white marble collections are especially very popular because of the simplicity and the feeling of spaciousness they present. From the exquisite Italian Calacatta Gold to White Carrara (aka Bianco Carrara) and to Greek Thassos White, white and subtle gray continues to be very much in demand.

Usually, these white marbles are all safe and durable to be used both in residential and commercial projects. When it comes to which size and finish to use in the bathrooms, here are the general guidelines I recommend my customers to follow:

• Large tiles can be used both on the floors and walls. If you want to use a large tile on the floor, a honed or tumbled finish - as opposed to polished - would be safer due to their anti-slippery nature.
• If you want to go with a polished look on the floor, go with smaller sizes - 4"x4"and smaller -with grout lines. The mosaic tiles on mesh are excellent choices for the wet floors since the grouted mosaics, even when polished, are perfectly anti-slippery.
• If your cabinets and all other accents in your bathroom have a lot of movement in the color/pattern/texture, you may want to stick with simple designs such as 2"x4" or 3"x6" brick tiles. Basketweaves and hexagons are great choices if the rest of the elements in your bathroom are more on the simplistic side. On the other side, the bigger the size, the more simple your design will be and the more spacious your bathroom will look - e.g. a 2" hexagon mosaic would make the bathroom look bigger than a 1" hexagon.

When it comes to the selection of material, colors and sizes for the bathrooms, there are more important criteria than simple aesthetics. The safety and durability of the material and design become equally important. Marble mosaics and tiles, in various size and finishes, present endless design alternatives that can satisfy a multitude of criteria.

Cheers!