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If you really want to create a memorable feature in your home, try adding Mexican Tile to the risers of your stairway, either indoors or outdoors! Here are some beautiful designs that may spur your own ideas: These first three examples all start with Saltillo tile for the stairs and landing, and Talavera tile for the risers. Two of these stairways, use a single pattern of Mexican tile on all the risers, while on the third example, two different patterns are alternated on every other step. In these next gorgeous examples, different decorative tiles within one color palette, but similar...

With all the beautiful Talavera tile and sinks to choose from, we understand that decision-making can be both fun and challenging. Choosing the perfect hand-painted pattern is like curating your own miniature museum. We had so much fun choosing Mexican Talavera sinks and tiles for our new home, but even for us it sometimes seemed intimidating! Mexican Tile Designs has over 94 different gorgeous sinks to choose from (and over 700 tile patterns!).How to choose? Since the sink is really the centerpiece of the project, we chose to focus on that decision first. We found that the decisions we made...

Earth tone Mexican Tiles:   Perhaps you are someone who just isn’t crazy about a whole lot of bright color in your kitchen or bath, or maybe you’re trying to match an existing earth tone color. I have several friends who are constantly looking for new ways to decorate around these colors. Well, don't despair! Mexican Tile Designs has (maybe surprisingly!) lots of subdued earth toned tiles and sinks to choose from. Each of our three lines: Traditional, Especial, and Prima, all some solids and patterns in warm browns and yellows. Like our Prima line , it has several tiles...

One of the most common questions people ask us at Mexican Tile Designs is for ideas on using decorative tile in their kitchen, bath or laundry room decorating project. It IS daunting sometimes. When I’m standing in our tile warehouse or sorting through boxes of tiles for a customer, I feel like a kid in a candy store. I love them all! How can I choose?     In this blog and others, I’ll try to show you what other people have done with Talavera tile and maybe it will spur your own creativity! Even if you follow their idea,...

  Because we LOVE it here! Mexican Tile Designs.com is located in the southwest corner of Colorado, near the four corners where Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado all come together. This blog is about Durango, not about Mexican Tile and Talavera Tile, because we want you to also come visit our beautiful town and our store and see why our family-owned company is located here.   Durango is perfectly situated between three ecological/geologic zones: basin and Range, high desert, and mountain. That means we get to explore and play in all three, depending on the weather and our mood!...