The potential of floor to ceiling tiles, decorative or plain, to create a focal point with imposing charm and character has been recognized by many top designers. Handmade products adds that one factor, the ultimate personalisation - the option where you can opt in to have top craftsmen create a product with your imput for that  unique element that will make your home truly personal and not just four walls filled with choices from an impersonal catalogue!

“This looks fantastic, just what we are looking for.
Yes I did, I think they are beautiful. I have a meeting with Sarah Watermeyer the designer who is helping me with my kitchen probably next Tuesday. Will let you know colours etc after that.

Much appreciated
Jenny”

We provided several samples and the preferred colour tones were the pale olive green colours and not the brighter and purer greens.

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 And another STUNNER!” Dear Gerrit, Didn’t forget you - I was waiting for our blinds to be put up but I will go grey waiting for this! Only been 6 months!As you can see the tiles look sensational! Work SO well with the Farrow & Ball wall colour. I am sending this to you as a taster to pop onto your web site and will send some more through later?Kind regards, Louise Croxton”“Hi GerritJust been thinking about the tile colours of my order and just wanted to stress that the “grey BW24-HR 5-1” sample tile must be the very darkest of the variety you make up in those shades – I can afford to play it on the light side as I find the darker the colour the more GREEN the “grey” tile looks. The washed grey aqua appeals to me but I am nervous of a really green impression. The colour for my kitchen cabinets is a greyish duck egg blue which looks almost pale aqua in some lights, to be off set by a cream stone counter top – the overall impression I want to achieve is a soft muted one – very understated and unusual I hope – but with the “punch” being the range tiles.So looking forward to seeing the tiles! Actually the most anticipated part of my new kitchen!”We are specialists at formulating a custom colour for handmade tiles - like the brief I have received from Louise to match the Pale Duck Egg Green from the Laura Ashley website.Dozens of formulation tests and changes will be made over a short period of time to meet the deadlines - but as can be seen and read - Louise’s testimonials confirm that Southern Art Ceramic Design has delivered the ultimate element - the textural glossy gray-green handmade tiles - that could reflect the changing moods of the day!I have to appologize for the images in this post - it is impossible to capture the colour and  atmosphere in a sun drenched kitchen like this!Only a site visit will do this kitchen merit,  and an early morning start with a cup of coffee will just be the time to experience the meticulously planned colour and handmade Duck Egg Green porcelain tiles changing its moods and reflections as the day progress!

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Gillian Greer, our graphic designer completed 10 different options for this client’s authentic farm-style kitchen. All these options have it’s own cost attached due to the different time allocation for each. The borders are extremely labour intensive and ad substantially to the quote.

Any of the above will enhance an old traditional farm kitchen. The AGA stove will compliment the handmade panel and the quarry tile floors and yellow wood beams will create the ambiance for many festive encounters in and around this kitchen with its Aga stove and handmade Delft style tiles.

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Danela Conti and Leigh Samson the owners of MalibuSofts, an interior design company, commissioned these superb individualized customized tiles for their client’s property at De Zalze golf estate near Stellenbosch. This post show some intriguing originality in the use of colour and positioning of the installed tiles by these two fast thinking individuals. It was an absolute pleasure to work with them as they were consistent and quick with their decision making.

These tiles, brightly coloured and with icons, has found relevance in the bathrooms that is deeply personal and one cannot imagine these bathrooms and guest toilets without it!

These tiles were used as pairs and positioned above the door in one bathroom and above the taps at the bath in another. In the guest toilet the three tiles were used next to the curtain. Individually these tiles have an overpowering presence but the understated use in number and with the surprise factor of positioning these characterful tiles just blend in to create an one of a kind bathroom experience!

We are the proud suppliers of customized handmade tiles at De Zalze Golf Estate to several homes and properties with projects ranging from kitchens tiles, decorative wall tiles, floor tiles, wall tiles and house names.

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We are very proud to present this handmade ceramic tile website to you. It is a one of a kind handmade portal presenting you with an awesome choice of unique handmade tiles. These handcrafted art tiles can be purchased as gifts or you can enhance, revive and revitalize your environment.

www.handmadetiles.co.za is the perfect portal for interior designers and architects who wish to add something special to their designs. These objects are on a scale that your clients can relate to and it will create one of a kind architectural structures and interior spaces, fresh, new, modern, contemporary and chic!

Create a one of a kind kitchen and be sure that it will be the talking point and envy of your friends! HOTFOOT to the website NOW!

The tiles were passionately crafted by several talented artists and this online shopping portal will be expanded substantially over the next six months.

If you pick up any small glitches be so kind to inform us, the tile site is huge, and less than 10% of the tile objects loaded.

www.handmadetiles.co.za will be the ultimate handmade tile portal to shop at in the world and just to keep you tempted we shall announce the opening of our arttile shopping portal in the near future as well!

Enjoy our new baby and any responses will be appreciated.

Kind regards

Gerrit

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Many moons ago I formed several impulsive platters, all of them rectangular with some organic overtones decorated with dots. I was quite pleased with the end result, and sold most of the platters.

This platter ended up in this apartment and would invite viewers to click on the image to view the website with more images of this awesome and most inspiring environment. This home is a lived in interior space communicating a story, vibrant, colorful and exciting!

How can rooms, four walls, without art … ceramic art …  by the likes of Ruan Hoffmann, Robert Hodgins,Hylton Nel, Haneke Benade and others … be called a home?

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With the superb match of the charcoal grey and the black Lacanche stove in the Top Billing feature I searched for a few other matches of where the stove and tiles match seamlessly.Matching the colour of handmade tiles with your Aga, Lacanche, Falcon or other stoves is a most  important decision and best left in the capable and experienced hands of Southern Art Ceramic design.This kitchen with a magnificent AGA stove attracts constant attention in many magazines like SA Home Owner and South African Decor & Design mini buyers guide. The South African Decor and Design mini buyers guide add with a similar image of this cream Aga stove and matching handmade tiles resulted in a unprecedented response and a flood of inquiries.South African  Home Owner used the above kitchen in their December 2008 issue featuring classic designs!We were not surprised, are you?

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Mrs Elwes, a passionate collector of our art work, had this ceramic tile panel installed in a entrance with a skylight. The sun is far to intense to hang any conventional painting in this spot and a ceramic tile panel was one of the few options.

This wall being exposed to strong afternoon sun was neglected till now, but wow what a difference does this new art panel make!

This close up display some of the soft velvety textures of these proteas, enticing one to touch them and imaging the real flower under your fingertips!

Soon panels like these will be for sale on Southern Art Ceramics e-commerce site, which promise to be the most dynamic and diverse online gallery from one studio in the world!

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It is invigorating to work and share with a couple this energetic and spirited.Their positive outlook bonds well with our creative spirit and their generous feedback and compliments drive us forth in this awesome country of ours!

This type of ceramic tile project belies it simplicity, to research the theme and fit it to the personalities took weeks of research, more to produce and reproduce, and even more to hand paint and repaint!  Soon we will open certain web pages by invitation only, these pages will show the time line and all that goes right and wrong during the run up to the deadline. These pages will give the clients some insight into the complexities and curve ball thrown at us during the design and production of ceramic clayart like these.

The panel above showcase Christa’s beloved Hantam with the Calvinia mountains in the background. The images portray many of her nostalgic memories, her grandparents that were “karrietjies mense”, that is the sheep shearers that travel from farm to farm, the adults dancing, the clothing of a bygone year, the games the kids used to play, etc….

Blue Le Creuset pots were used to accentuate the blues in the panels, and the Le Creuset kettle invites friends to linger longer. The Smeg stoves and Braai’s stainless steel surfaces compliment the blues and adds just enough of a contemporary look. The bulky blue Smeg fridges adds drama with its larger surfaces of blue as well as something quirky. The blues mirror the large expances of sky outside and this all add to the positive mood around this environment!

This is where Trevor grew up, Steynsburg, with “Teebus and Koffiebus”in the background.

The dates they left were incorporated on the number plates of the carts and  painted on tiles used at a fireplace.

Bright red were used to extemporize some  tiles used randomly around the kitchen.

The website will be updated in the nearfuture with the full portfoilio of the kitchen seen before and afterwards, fresh, new and revived!

Call us now to revive your kitchen or patio!

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Sim completed these mugs lately, and what an education it is, with each mug telling a soccer story. This will be a great gift to any soccer mad visitor to South Africa in 2010!

This “corner” kick will deliver a Goal!

And Oh, THE GAME PLAN!, the strategic thinking needed for a winning team.

And the WINNER is….?!

The 2010 Soccer World Cup is stimulating creative juices like never seen before!

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