Backsplash

Glass Tile Backsplash

Functional Yet Artistic Glass Tile Backsplash

Most expensively decorated kitchen has a glass tile backsplash. The purpose of this glass tile backsplash is to protect the wall behind the kitchen counter and sink. A kitchen backsplash can also be used as an artistic design element in your kitchen.
Several DIYers have successfully installed glass tile [...]

Recycled

Recycled Glass Tile

The Environment Friendly Recycled Glass Tile

Most communities want to help reduce global warming by establishing and promoting different recycling programs. One of these programs helps keep glass out of landfills. Recycled glass is usually used in products that are not visible to the naked eye. It is used in insulation, asphalt for roadways, backfill for [...]

Oceanside

Oceanside Glass Tile

Go Green in Style with Oceanside Glass Tile

Global warming is worsening each day and we all need to do our part to save Mother Earth. Like a mantra, Reduce. Reuse .Recycle, should be repeated over and over again until global warming shows signs of reducing and eventually stopping.
You don’t need to be a superhero or [...]

Iridescent

Iridescent Glass Tile

Select Beautiful Iridescent Glass Tile

According to the dictionary, iridescent means “producing a display of lustrous, rainbowlike colors.” Also, it could mean “brilliant, lustrous or colourful in effect or appearance.” If tiles look like this, I want to have them installed in my kitchen immediately.
I am a homeowner looking for iridescent glass tiles for my DIY [...]

Bathroom

Glass Bathroom Tiles

Artistic Murals For Your Glass Bathroom Tiles

Bathroom spaces will be more interesting if added with a glass tile mosaic mural. Glass bathroom tile murals can be installed on the walls or floors. Eye-catching and artistic, it definitely adds elegance and flair.
Do you want your bathrooms to look as beautifully decorated as the pavements or [...]

Floor

Glass Floor Tiles

Light the Way With Glass Floor Tiles

No one wants to live in a dark gloomy house but since most people are trying their best to conserve energy, they often have no choice. Other homeowners opt to change their flooring or wall covering that absorbs light. Clear glass and glass laminated floors were used to illuminate [...]

 





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Viridian Recycled Glass Tile

Viridian Recycled Glass Tile

Building a house almost always involves a degradation of the environment. Trees have to be cut for lumber; stones, gravel, and sand have to be extracted from the quarries for masonry works; and minerals have to be mined for cement, ceramics, and glass. While these cannot be totally eliminated, they can be minimized. Engineered wood, [...]

Cartglass Vitreous Mosaic Tiles

Cartglass Vitreous Mosaic Tiles

Colorful yet economical, Cartglass Vitreous Mosaic Tiles are an excellent solution to your tiling needs. These can be used both outdoors and indoors. The tiles are sold loose in one-pound bags. On the average, there are 140 to 150 tiles in a bag. Installation of the loose tiles may take a little longer than those [...]

Lush Big Blend Sur

Lush Big Blend Sur

Tiles add design, texture, and color to an otherwise bland surface of a wall, floor, counter, or table. These could be ceramic, wood, stone, metal, or glass. Compared to the other materials, glass has the advantage of reflecting light and emitting intense colors. Compound this with its imperviousness to water, and you have an excellent [...]

Modern Tile Studio’s Ashland E Iridescent Tile

Modern Tile Studio

Modern Tile Studio’s Ashland E Iridescent Tile

There is really nothing like walking into your bathroom early in the morning and being greeted with a flood of rainbow colors, or going to your kitchen for a cup of joe and getting dazzled with sparkling irises. If you too want to bring down the rainbow to your [...]

Get the Buzz About Glass Mosaic Tiles


Glass mosaic tiles became popular for use in architecture during the Renaissance period. Glass mosaic tiles have been popular in Asia during the 1980s but slowly diminished after the 1990s. However, with several new technology developments, the glass mosaic tiles are back with a vengeance more strongly than ever.

With today's glass mosaic tiles' new technology, whatever colors, sizes, styles and materials you may want are not impossible to get. As you may not know, vast variety is a distinguishing characteristic of the glass mosaic tile. This building or art material, whichever you may want to look at it, have very broad spectrum of applications because of it is impervious to water. Glass has zero water absorption rate thus it has no problems with expansion or shrinkage and can be used indoor and outdoor. Glass mosaic tiles can be used for a range of building Installations for residential flooring though not recommended for polished surfaces because it can get slippery, walls, columns, pillars, artwork, bathrooms, kitchens and swimming pools. Imagination is the only limit when it comes to using glass mosaic tiles.

The original glass mosaic type is the vitreous glass mosaic tile. This kind of mosaic tile was commonly used to make swimming pools. Through the years, the glass mosaic tile has evolved and now has several categories aside from the original vitreous glass mosaic:

  • Crystal glass mosaic tile - The Crystal glass mosaic tile can be see-through but can also have thousands of colors available.
  • Stone glass mosaic tile - The stone glass mosaic tile was created when people started blending natural stone into glass. This kind of mosaic tile can appear very natural but is usually very luxurious.
  • Iridescent glass mosaic tile - An iridescent glass mosaic tile has iridescent coatings on its surface to make the glass mosaic reflect a variety of colors. This kind of glass mosaic tile is perfect for casinos and clubs.
  • Metallic glass mosaic - The metallic glass mosaic tile is made from a very special material. Unlike other glass mosaic tiles that the color is on the back of a mosaic, the metallic glass mosaic colors are fused into the tile itself. This is done by exposing the tile into an extremely high temperature and when the glass fusion has cool down, the color is inside evenly distributed through the whole mosaic.
  • Van Gogh glass mosaic - The Van Gogh glass mosaic underwent the similar manufacturing process as the metallic glass mosaic. The difference is that the Van Gogh glass mosaic gives of an oil paint texture on its surface.
For small projects at home that require using tiles, opt for a DIY using bright colored glass mosaic tiles. There are numerous design patterns one can follow to create an eye catching kitchen or bathroom wall. Browse different websites on glass mosaic tiles to get some tips and ideas on how to use them, what colors they are available in or whatever information you might need about glass mosaic tiles.