I have written a number of posts about sealing stone and often emphasize the importance of sealing your stone to ensure it ages gracefully, however when it is sandstone the “gracefull aging” sometimes has a little more to it. Martin PatricelIi who has been installing tile in Seattle for years gave me a few tips on [...]
Archives for June, 2009
Installation Spotlight: Kaizen tile and stone
Kaizen tile and stone has done it again with a really daring and challenging design. Here they have taken the Brazilain Rust slate and cut it into 3″ strips, creating their own offset amazingly awesome mosaic. Good work, it looks great!
Who is Faith Sheridan?
When those within the design community are doing good things it should be talked about, so when my personal friend and Statements customer, Faith Sheridan, has made great headway with her blog it should be mentioned. Especially when she has posted about us. So let’s talk a little about Faith Sheridan and why you should [...]
Installation Spotlight: Bagley custom interiors
Another Installation Spotlight from the only interior designer to be featured in Intallation Spotlight, Bonnie Bagley. Here she has used 10×18 Fusion Brown on the walls of the entire shower. The reflective nature of the Fusion complements the complete glass [...]
Found Treasure: double pressed hexagon tile
I was on a website the other day with no connection to the tile industry at all, but they were using this picture as a background image. As a tile guy, I immediately spotted these gorgeous hexagon tiles that appear to be double pressed. Can anyone identify them?
slab, tile, slab, tile? How about tile that looks like slab………
Redoing your countertops? You love the look of slab but want the price tag of tile? What to do? How about using larger scale tiles? Statements carries a wide range of large scale tiles in various stone and color choices. Not just your basic granite and marble, instead large scale tiles come in everything from [...]
First Thursday in Pioneer Square with FAP Italian Tile
We celebrated with our neighbors at First Thursday in Pioneer Square by holding a special event featuring one of our favorite tile lines: the FAP collection from Sassuolo, Italy. FAP is a contemporary, sophisticated collection of clean lines, the latest colors and large formats. Here are a few pictures from the event:
Installation Spotlight: Riverside interiors
Intallation spotlight this week comes to us from Riverside Interiors. Here they have taken the 24×24 leather looking tiles by Matouche, in the eleph tabac, and intalled them on a fire place for a very masculine but chic look. Love it!
statements stimulus package II
Let’s face it decos are expensive, but oh so pretty, and we at Statements know you love them. So we have added to our “tile stimulus package” by selling these decos for $3.50 each. Can you believe it, we must be mad?! There are 16 of each in stock, so as you can see quantities are limited. Come [...]

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