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Kitchens: With the popularity of cooking programs on television it’s clear that Australians are rediscovering a passion for food and its preparation. More than ever the kitchen is the heart of the home. Make it look as good as it smells and feels by whipping up a warm and welcoming tessellated floor from OETA that’s as strong, safe and stylish as a certain larger than life food critic.
Dining Rooms: Once you’ve made that perfect meal you want to enjoy it with family and friends in a perfect setting. But accidents can happen; some pasta sauce, red wine, coffee spilled on the floor. It’s not a drama. OETA’s tessellated floors just wipe clean.
Lounge / Family Rooms: Cool in summer and warm in winter, vitrified porcelain tiles by Winckelmans of France, Used to create OETA’s tessellated floors, are the ideal choice for your living room floor:-elegant, with a vast range of patterns and colourways; durable; non-slip and hygienic ( they won’t harbour dust-mites or pollens ).
Hearths: Nothing beats the feel of a warm, cozy fire during the winter months. The Olde English range of hearth tiles combines tessellated patterns, classic vitrified mosaics and vividly coloured plain gloss tiles in two sizes, plus printed and embossed decorative tiles-single or multi coloured. You can even have a design hand-painted to your requirements.
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Situated in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs, this distinctive, character-filled home, built in 1898 & exhibiting stylistic influences of Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau & Queen Anne Revival, was definitely showing its age and in need of a complete renovation - inside & out. Despite its generous proportions and exotic detailing, the entry hall looked shabby and uninviting - the original floor boards were warped and stained by water damage. The owner chose to replace them with a restrained, elegant and hard wearing tessellated floor from Olde English Tiles - the Liverpool pattern in black, white & pale green, combined with a simple strip border. The finished result strikes a perfect balance between the richly detailed facade and the understated sophistication of the interior, allowing the owner to explore her artistic ideas and personal style.
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The Killara tile and Bristol border make for an eye-catching kitchen floor in this sophisticated Art Deco apartment. The bevelled edge wall tiles offer a sleek finish to a kitchen splashback.
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As you drive up the long, winding road flanked by giant trees, an expectation is created of what you will encounter at the end of your journey. Like something from a 19th century romance by one of the Bronte sisters, the grand Tudor style house sits on the crest of a hill overlooking the rolling landscape of Grose Vale in rural NSW. This powerful impression continues once you reach the entrance hall with its dramatic tessellated floor, featuring the Westminster pattern with a Deco border, enhanced by a complementary paint scheme on the walls, making it undoubtedly the highlight of the project.
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Descending the stairs of this Victorian terrace house you enter into a space of luxurious patterns and colours that seem at odds with their prosaic location - the kitchen cum breakfast area. Entering the kitchen proper, the ornately turned banister spindles and lush floral wallpaper give way to a more utilitarian aesthetic, where silver grey lacquered cabinets provide a neutral frame for the dramatic tessellated floor - the Liverpool pattern, in charcoal, white & blue. The porcelain tiled floor unifies all the disparate design elements of the space - wallpaper, cabinetry, stone benchtops & splashback, and provides a durable, easy maintenance surface that will stand up to the heaviest traffic for decades.
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Timeless mosaics on the floor are paired with an elegant Art Deco stairway and entice guests to take a nostalgic climb at this Neutral Bay home.
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"This traditional weatherboard worker's cottage in the harbour suburb of Birchgrove has undergone a dramatic metamorphosis both inside and out. The owner chose to gut the original interior and rebuild it to her taste and to make it more responsive to the demands of a modern lifestyle and a young family. She used colours from around the property and incorporated them into the tessellated floor design of the main entrance - the Westminster with Newcastle border. The owner's eye for the telling detail is evident in the light fittings, door furniture, tapware and the pressed metal ceiling. A nice touch in this space is the inclusion of a fireplace featuring the Ribbon Rose decor tile & dusty pink subway tiles. This is an entrance that will continue to impress visitors and take the knocks from boisterous youngsters for many years to come."
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Our Barclay 20 mosaic tiles and Link 20 black border makes for a simple and stylish entrance at this cosy Enmore abode.
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This ultra modern living area features our Monte Carlo 2 mosaic tiles on the wall and black hexagon tiles on the floor to create a simple but striking finish.
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This graceful Victorian terrace features the Leeds pattern and Norwood border on the path, verandah and main entrance. Designer Dee Cotter chose a traditional pattern to honour the vintage of the house, (and customized it with her favourite colour - green - as the key element in the colour palette). Using the same pattern and colours throughout, creates a unity to the entire project. The paint colours of the hallway have been determined by those of the floor. Read Q & A here.
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A special custom pattern in this sophisticated living space ties the space together and makes for a timeless look and feel.
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The entrance to this grand home was made even more beautiful as a result of the new custom tessellated floor pattern that we created with the customer and then installed on their front entrance and hallway.
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A bold coloured subway tile on a splashback draws the eye and brings energy to a kitchen, as per this recent project featuring our Marina handmade subway tile.
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A custom tessellated pattern and Bristol border adds charm to a contemporary Darlinghurst terrace in inner Sydney.
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A classic, clean checkerboard pattern sets the timeless tone in this lovely little apartment in Sydney’s Mosman suburb. Our screen-printed encaustic tiles wrap the fireplace to evoke the warm charms of yesteryear.
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Our bold Lillie Middle encaustic tiles add sophistication and character to a modern Paddington terrace.
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This stunning floor shows the St Trope design in our Riviera Mosaic collection using cool colours Special Blue and White with Black.