Our ongoing customized colour & glaze development has as a result enhanced another “One Of A Kind Kitchen”.  These handmade and hand dipped porcelain tiles with their green-grey tones with a slight smokiness to them but at the same time the colour is pure enough to be fresh, resulting in a timeless and sophisticated finish, and will attract many more compliments in the decades to come!The handmade ceramic tiled backsplash with French words have refreshed this classically English inspired kitchen, with a surprising French flair.The incredible and overwhelming  response from her friends and visitors caused this client to remark ” It was a bargain!” I am extremely confident that our commodity delivers more value per rand than any of the other appliances and decorative enhancments that a client will aquire for their kitchen!The uniqueness of our products will always deliver value for your money - our product is more than just a tile, it is a commodity, designed with care and with special attention to your interior needs!We are the top customization studio around and I believe that no kitchen can be truly One Of A Kind without our commodities.

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It took us more than a year to photograph this kitchen with it’s joyous green backsplash tiles. What a pleasant occasion! First of all, being situated in Higgovale, Cape Town, just below Table Mountain makes for a stunning position … a dream come true. The kitchen is a true showcase of a young artistic family, with the mother and children indulging in art, creating these awe-inspiring horses and elephants during their spare time in a petite studio with a true IMAX view!

The client requested a mix of green tones in these chunky tiles. The greens were customized and has since been a hit with other tile contracts as well.

One would expect to find these tiles in a country farm kitchen, but this nothing like that, it is modern with the all important tiles adding soulfulness, a quality so often neglected by professional teams when they design the most important room in your house! It compliments the modern materials like the stainless steel rails and cast concrete work surfaces, but at the same time finds support in the character of the checkerboard wood table where the family sits, eats and shares!

Green creates an atmosphere of harmony, balance and peace. The green glaze radiates sympathy, kindness and understanding and it is a call for us to come home, to rest and to share precious time with our beloved friends and family. Green develops an awareness of the soul and this next image relate to exactly that quality!

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These Sculptural art tiles were created with composite pieces of ceramics and then instinctively painted with an oversize brush and the use of a swift moving hand.

I created these faces in 2008 and kept them close to my heart for a long time, well till now, when it got sold. The client just “clicked’ with my work, a great feeling when considering the progressiveness of style and emotion.

It is only the face at the top right which display female features, with the rest all male. This was not intentional and only appear as I build a relationship and interact with the 3d canvass during the process of creation.

These faces will be displayed in a penthouse right on the seafront of Umhlanga Rocks and not far from a previous contract at the Oyster Box hotel.

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Gillian Greer was commissioned to hand paint this thoroughbred racing horse, in memory of Tony Taberer of Avontuur Wine Estate and Stud Farm.

The confidence in the use of brushstroke and the proud glittering eye makes for an exceptional arttile. It draws and holds the attention of the viewer as only a champion can!

The rich brown colours of the coat invites the viewer to stroke the strong neck of this powerful race horse at Avontuur Wine Estate and Stud Farm.

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Our shopping portals are gaining momentum and the sales has been a pleasant surprise for us.

At the www.handmadetiles.co.za website, we sold 6 tiles from the category ” In Circles We Walk” and the testimonial of this sale makes us proud.

Môre Gerrit,

Baie dankie, die teëls is reeds Vrydagoggend 10:00 by my afgelewer – eintlik verstommend vinnig.

Hulle is baie mooier as wat ek gedink het! Baie dankie!

Dankie ook vir die geskenk. Ek stuur vir jou ‘n foto wanneer hulle geinstalleer is.

Groete,
Chris Fourie.

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At our www.arttilegallery.com website, we sold the following Arttile by Gerrit Oosthuizen.

The greatest achievement is the fabulous spin-offs from these sites, and the income generated from commissioned sales are actually outstripping the actual sales!!

The building of these websites of which both are still in development took 1000’s of hours of photographing, editing, loading, labeling, etc. to feed the sites,  a mammoth task for a small studio like ours!

Enjoy the websites and follow their growth!

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There are so many ideas, and this is just but another one. Do you have any ideas of your own?These same words can be done in French … of miskien Afrikaans!This panel on a 30 working day delivery will cost R4772 and 20% less on a 45 working day delivery.

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This commission at a home in the heavenly De Zalze Golf Estate near Stellenbosch is attracting a lot of attention and it is easy to understand why many visitors to this De Zalze property just stand and watch these stairs with it’s inlayed hand painted grape tiles in awe!

The pictures compel you to climb the stairs to discover other stairs winding upwards to other rooms, private patios and a lovely herb garden with awesome views over the De Zalze vineyards!

These handmade and hand painted tiles are inlayed flush with the cement. The contractors at this superb De Zalze property constructed stairs which are technically superb and with a colour finish that reflects onto the white walls with a mesmerizing  soft romantic  “glow”!

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The clients are ecstatic, the interior designer is as well and we are over the moon! Soon we shall receive images from  the final photo shoot and these will show the Moroccan styled handmade tiles in all its glory!

Note the build in benches with its green tiles. The greens were customized to suit the fabrics used in the soft furnishings and probably was the most difficult endeavor of this project.

These installations with our handmade and custom designed tiles could not be better planned and executed and no wonder that the professional team and the clients are so happy!

After having  spend months planning, designing and producing these Moroccan styled  tiles, the agonizing wait to receive feedback from the construction team feels like a lifetime!

These images were taken from a mobile phone, and the professional images will surely flabbergast all of us!

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Watch Top Billing on the 2nd of April and view this week’s location, an old Parktown manor house on Westcliff kopje that underwent major alterations to restore its majesty, as well as bringing in some French flair from Provence.In a luxurious kitchen like this a handmade tile panel behind an opulent stove like this one will be the only option, the cherry on the cake!The charcoal colored letters on the natural bone colour of the tiles blends in seamlessly with the black Lacanche stove. The myTILE team can harmonize the handmade tiles with  your stove, be it, a Lacanche, Falcon, Smeg, Gaggenau or the fabulously new Viking range of appliances from Euro Appliances!

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Mother Karen Gay send us this image giving us some idea of what her dream kitchen entails.

Furthermore her brief included a custom shaped tile resembling the original New York subway tile and special images like sugarcane and cardinal flowers.

They are in the process of installing the tiles, unfortunately they left the installation with inexperienced Mexican contractors that could not and did not read the installation diagrams and manuals.

We are in the process making 36 tiles to complete the installation. This is unfortunate, but with proper supervision and implementing the diagram and following instructions supplied in the manual a successful installation would have been possible for sure! We receive many compliments regarding our services to aid with a successful installation.

Mother Karen Gay responds:

“We love the tiles … they’re beautiful! I have attached pictures so that you can see how those that are installed look so far.”

She is as passionate as we are and now that she will have a happy and welcoming kitchen as soon as it is complete.

A full portfolio off the above commissioned handmade kitchen tiles will be available on our  new and soon to be announced website featuring special projects.

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