First the bad news: L'Esperance got back to me, and unfortunately their handmade field tiles are way out of my range (given that I'm tiling 70-110 sq. ft. of kitchen). The sixteen-or-so dogwood and lily feature tiles won't break my piggie bank, but I need to find a different field tile to go with them.(Click here if you don't know what I'm talking about.) I was afraid this would happen.
Now the good news: There are other hand-glazed tiles out there that might work. I found the Solistone Mission line in my local Home Depot, of all places. They look well-made, neither overly sleek nor falsely antiqued, though I don't know where on that palette I'd want to land. And they're a quarter of the price.
Isn't it odd that "Mission" means two entirely different styles - Mexican on the West Coast and Wright/Stickley on the East?
But wait, there's more! Another of my dearest tile fantasies is handmade Moroccan ceramic tile in funky arabesque shapes. (Cue Robin Leach: "you can't afford it!") But what about handmade Mexican tile, in the same arabesques and dreamy blues? The Muslims conquer Spain, the Spanish conquer Mexico, and globalization avant la lettre brings tiles like these halfway round the world:
(scale: each of the individual tiles in these mosaics is 3 or 4 inches long or wide.)
I've got to have them on my big kitchen wall. (Unless they go in the bathroom ...) I wouldn't mind them on the backsplash, but I want to do something with the L'Esperance dogwoods and daylilies too.
Can I make them all work together? And how? I need a really fantastic tile guy.
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