Take a look at some examples of real hardwood floors in famous old buildings, ... You can source any number of ...

While some consider busy patterned tiles on the floor to be outdated, they can be used in other ways around the home for a ...

If you’re considering tile vs. wood flooring in your home but you're not sure how they stack up against each other, here’s your ultimate comparison guide.

In the 1960s, mathematicians began to study “aperiodic” tile sets with far richer behavior. Perhaps the most famous is a pair of diamond-shaped tiles discovered in the 1970s by the polymathic ...

Frances Priest creates ceramic vessels, tiles, and sculptural forms that explore the possibilities of pattern.

HomeAdvisor, the home services website, estimates that it costs $3,131 to install new flooring in a standard, 320-square-foot living room (20 feet by 16 feet), with budget installations of, say ...

Polygons needed to be perfect. Most mosaic tile walls in medieval Islamic buildings are based on a polygon and star pattern, with lines atop them creating a zip-zag look [image].

Infinitely many copies of a 13-sided shape can be arranged with no overlaps or gaps in a pattern that never repeats. David Smith, Joseph Samuel Myers, Craig S. Kaplan and Chaim Goodman-Strauss () ...

Of course, this is trivial to do with a pattern that repeats — just look at a bathroom or kitchen floor, which is probably made up of simple rectangular tiles. If you were to pick up your floor ...

With all those spectacular buildings from which to choose, it is remarkable indeed that Gladding, McBean selected a small, but exceedingly lovely fountain just installed at the Roland Bishop House ...

Inside the National Tile Museum, Lisbon, Portugal. Credit: Alamy After an earthquake devastated much of Lisbon in 1755, tile-making took on a new life and the azulejos patterns of the period were ...