Very useful book for beginner or expert tile layers. Great pictures, illustrations, and instructions. Gives you in-depth help on doing tile projects for your home. The ceramic tile renaissance continues, and in this major revision of America’s best-selling DIY tile book, all the newest designs and installation innovations are included. It’s traditional with a twist. Now expanded to 272 pages, this book includes all of the basics and traditional techniques as well as new projects for revamping tile walls with designer accent tiles, dressing up existing drab surfaces with fresh decorative tile, creating wall art with mosaic tiles, designing with large or three-dimensional tiles, using tile to add an artistic element to any room, and working with specialty tile—to enhance both outdoor and interior living spaces. This book shares all of the designer trends and prized secrets to allow readers to customize their homes with style.

Ceramic tile is the luxury surface of choice for today’s homeowners, and Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Decorating with Ceramic Tile is the only book they’ll need to achieve professional-level designer tile installations while saving thousands of dollars.

The book includes more than 700 gorgeous color photos, more than 100 new to this edition. America’s best-selling book on do-it-yourself ceramic tile installation just got even better.

• Working with glass and Italian accent tiles
• Includes marble, granite and other natural stone tiles
• Includes decorative uses as well as traditional applications

About the Author

Jerri Farris specializes in home decor and DIY subjects. She has written more than a dozen best-selling books in these categories. She has been featured on House Smarts with Lou Manfredini.

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Creative Publishing international; 2nd edition (October 15, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1589233336
• ASIN: B004KAB5OG
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.2 x 0.7 inches

Lounge interiors with wooden floor panels.

Beautiful bedroom Designs with wooden floor panels.

Red Oak Sonora (Reading Area)

Plain Designer or Unitinta™ Tiles

Unitinta™ tiles are made using almost no stone or marble chips, which gives them a distinctive look quite unlike normal mosaic tiles.

Bharat’s Unitinta™ tiles can either be laid by themselves to get a lovely monochromatic floor with gentle variations of shade, or combined with Heritage Tiles, borders or medallions to create unique designs for a simpler Heritage ambience. Elegant or ethnic, contemporary or classic, the floor is a canvas for Bharat’s floor art and displays the ingenuity of the artist-designer.

The setting process of cement, like the heating of certain Chinese porcelain glazes, creates fine cracks known as crazing. This does not weaken the tile in any way, but enhances the tile with an antique look.

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Heritage Tiles

Bharat’s heritage tiles are custom designed to create stunning floors to suit eclectic tastes. Each cement tile is individually hand-crafted from the finest, carefully selected elements, aesthetically blended to create a high quality tile in rich and glowing colours. The timeless elegance and durability of these tiles make them works of art and an invaluable part of the country’s architectural heritage.

Ecostone™ Marble Interio

These tiles are made from quality recycled marble pieces which are sorted, graded, and then crushed to form the chips that compose the recycled content of the tile. These tiles can emulate the look of natural stone, terrazzo or artificial stone in an enduring and eco friendly manner.

Ecostone™ Glass Interio

Glass from our every day lives can be recycled to form beautiful floors. With glass from various sources collected, crushed, and then mixed with our beautiful colours and cement, tiles are formed that are both eco friendly as well as beautiful. The glass forms jewel like structures in the tile which reflect light and look especially beautiful.

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Terrazzo

Terrazzo is a composite material poured in place or precast, which is used for floor and wall treatments. It consists of marble, quartz, granite, glass or other suitable chips, sprinkled or unsprinkled, and poured with a binder that is cementitious, chemical or a combination of both. Terrazzo is cured, ground and polished to a smooth surface or otherwise finished to produce a uniformly textured surface.

Bharat’s terrazzo floors are made from top quality materials such as Italian marble, the finest white marble chips, scintilating glass or mirrors. White or cream terrazzo provides an elegant backdrop for classic or contemporary furnishings. Coloured glass creates an elegant bejewelled floor.

Advantages of Terrazzo

• The obvious advantage to terrazzo (besides it’s beauty) is the fact it will last for centuries. However, there are a number of other good reason to choose terrazzo floors. 
• Terrazzo is ‘green’ – terrazzo is the original ‘green’ flooring. Since it’s made from all natural materials, there are no volatile organic compounds (VOC’s) in terrazzo and because it’s usually made from stone chips and scraps it also has a high percentage of recycled material.
• Terrazzo is versatile – You can install terrazzo inside or outside. It was originally used in outdoor terraces and it can still be used to provide a beautiful patio or pool deck. Inside, the fact that it’s waterproof makes it a good choice for installation in a bathroom or kitchen and it’s ability to withstand heavy foot traffic makes it ideal for entrances.
• Terrazzo is healthy – since it’s made primarily from stone, terrazzo is bacteria resistant. As well, being stone, it’s easy to clean without using any potentially hazardous chemicals, warm water and a little soap will keep it looking great for years.
• Terrazzo has unlimited design possibilities – Most terrazzo floors are poured on site so the choice of colors, as well as the actual floor shape and design can be customized to satisfy even the most demanding architect or home owner. Every terrazzo floor is unique, so there is never a need to worry about another terrazzo floor looking the same as yours.

tilan® Checkered or Non-slip

Bharat’s Stilan® Non Slip tiles are specially formulated using rust free ingredients and compressed under hydraulic pressure. With the ability to withstand 40 ton fire tender weights, this flooring is the ideal option for all high rise buildings.

Terra Natura

Terra Natura is concrete that is patterned and/or textured or embossed to resemble brick, slate, flagstone, stone, tile, wood, and various other patterns and textures.

Pavers

Bharat can supply you with reliable, good quality prefinished or regular pavers of 60 and 80mm height. Available in a wide variety of colours and patterns.

Showrooms

HEAD OFFICE

Bharat Floorings & Tiles (Mumbai) Pvt. Ltd.

32, Mumbai Samachar Marg, Next to Stock Exchange,
Fort, Mumbai 400 023 Tel: 91 (22) 4057 4444, 2265 4837
Fax: 91 (22) 4057 4406
E-mail: info@bharatfloorings.com

NEW DELHI

Girish Sawhney
Exquisite Floors

C-94 Defence Colony
New Delhi 110024
Tel: 011 6567 2262             
Mobile: 91 92121 47222

BANGALORE

Suresh Narsappa
Bharat Floors

#135/3 First Floor,
Lal Baug Road,
Bangalore 560027
Mobile: 91 98440 53291

GOA

Jawahar Naik
Rarite

Aldeia Aurino Phase I,
Soccoro Porvorim,
Bardez Goa 403501             
Mobile: 91 98224 23211

PUNE

Dhairyashil Taru
Bharat Floors

Ground Floor, Santosh Heights
Gultekdi, Market Yard Road,
Pune 411037
Mobile: 91 97666 25296

Polypropylene rug is one of the most beautiful and fashionable rug which is made by synthetic fiber (olefin) that is excellent for use in rugs that are being placed in high traffic areas, rooms where spillage is common (such as bathrooms, kitchens, nurseries, playrooms, and on porches, decks, and patios that need an outdoor area rug. So we can found lot of qualities in polypropylene rug, which are listed below:

Polypropylene rugs very are easy to keep clean, and don’t fade with many washings.

Polypropylene is a type of plastic that is lightweight, durable and versatile.

A major quality of polypropylene rugs is their color fastness.

Polypropylene is a totally stain resistance.

A disadvantage of polypropylene as a carpet material is that it isn’t as resilient as nylon, for example. If it is subjected to heavy traffic it will have a tendency to mat down and wear out more quickly.