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 If you are missing something in your kitchen, let our handmade tiles come to life behind your treasured Aga or Lacance stove, or around an open hearth with a chattering fire.

These very special hand made creamy off white herb tiles, with different herbs painted on them by Helé Oosthuizen, will create magic behind your stove in your dream kitchen. It will invite simplicity, clear your mind of worry and ultimately refresh your family’s spirits around the table.

The kitchen below belongs to Pricilla Torr, and these are some of her remarks.

The photographs you took are beautiful! Can’t quite believe it is our kitchen! Garden and Home phoned to ask if they could photograph it too and Di is due to come next week! Many thanks for helping us to make our kitchen a joy! So it is being much admired.

This kitchen features in the March issue of the South African Garden & Home magazine.

All these handmade tiles are hand manipulated to express special textures. The dialogue with the client included the custom matching of colour with that of the cupboards. The olives were painted in a similar colour as the Lacance stove.

Most of our kitchen panels are only installed after the successful installation and finishing of the kitchen cupboards. We usually design the panels according to the cad or architectural drawings provided, and will deliver on or before deadline so that the tiles can be installed before the heavy stoves are moved into place. At the time of commissioning the tiles, the clients are usually quite stressed as they reach fatigue with the progress of the building. We advise that you commission your tiles early, and to relax, because all buildings reach successful completion, and soon after you forget all of the past frustrations, and the dream home takes on a life and character of its own.

Pricilla Torr comments:

Our experience both with Twine Tiles and with Southern Art (both yourself and Gillian) was a real pleasure. Your advice was sound and the work was completed well within our timeframe. When we realized we had under-estimated the amount of tiles needed (cause of a design change) a lot of time and effort was spent matching the previous tiles and now you can barely tell the difference - in fact the slight change makes it look more individual and original. 

Our kitchen designed by Nicolwood was manufactured by the cabinetmaker, Peter Christie-Smith (Tel: 082-9385265). The builder, Pete Matthiae (021-7617238) employed the tiler.

I hope the above is informative and constructive, and I compliment all who were involved in the construction of this kitchen with its most harmonious atmosphere.

For more pictures visit this link.

We believe that these tiles can be adapted to compliment ultra modern kitchens, utilizing bright-saturated jewel-like glassy glazing techniques, but this we leave for another posting.