Europamerican Tile & Marble, Company

APPLICATIONS - FOYERS AND ENTRIES Issues on foyers are water and fairly tight confined spaces. Unless the foyer goes unused because everyone comes into the house via the garage, a throw rug will have to be installed in front of the front door to allow visitors to wipe off their wet feet before...

APPLICATIONS - BATHROOM WALLS As with floors, size does make a difference! For many years the general advice from designers was that small bathrooms required the use of small tile! Actually that advice has been made obsolete in the last ten years with the availability of large body tiles. As the...

Size does make a difference! For many years the general advice from designers was that small bathrooms required the use of small tile! Actually that advice has been made obsolete in the last ten years with the availability of large body tiles. As the tiles increase in size, the amount of grout...

APPLICATIONS - POOLS, PATIOS AND SUNROOMS The issue with pools and patios relate to water and, in the colder climates, freeze stable tile. Most sunrooms are not exposed to the elements so these issues are not important. A sunroom tile does not have to be freeze resistant even if the room gets...

APPLICATIONS - KITCHEN FLOORS Kitchen floors get wet and dirty due to daily use! Obviously a small white tile with white grout would be the worst possible choice as everything would show on the floor and the grout would soon become dirty and discolored. What we recommend is large body tiles (16x16...

The backsplash is the focal point of the kitchen and bath and often sets the tone for the rest of the house. The best advice is that you should not install the backsplash, in fact you should not even think about selecting your backsplash tile, until your countertops, cabinets and other decorating...

APPLICATIONS - COUNTERTOPS See "Tile on Countertops- You Must be Crazy" in the Articles section for a detailed discussion and recommendations about installing tile on countertops. As with floors, countertops are work surfaces more than they are decorative areas. It makes sense to have areas...

You can pretty much use any tile that you like around fireplaces! When tile is manufactured it is fired at temperatures much higher than you can generate in your fireplace. As a result heat from your fireplace will not affect your tile( it will affect the glue that is used however, so thinset...