Every tile page in this range has a finish row, and across the sixty product pages that row is written twelve different ways. Six of the twelve name one finish. Five name two at once, and two of those five are the same statement with a slash where the other has the word. The twelfth is the site recording that the supplier documentation states nothing. This page lists all twelve, and shows where the wording on a product page and the word that files the tile into a collection stop saying the same thing.
The finish is written twelve ways across sixty pages
Read on 30 September 2026 and updated on 4 October 2026, the finish line in the supplier's own specifications list reads, across the range:
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Matton twenty tiles; -
Glosson fourteen; -
Honed or polishedon six; -
Polished or matton five; -
Polishedon three; -
Roughon three; -
Honedon three; -
Texture and honedon two; -
Matt or roughon one; -
Matt / roughon one; -
Gloss or matton one; -
Not specifiedon one.
Two words cover thirty-four of the sixty. Five more wordings cover another twenty. The last six tiles write something no more than one other tile in the range writes, and those are what the rest of this page is about.
Two tiles fall outside the ordinary finish row
Pietra Vela Fluted Marble-Look Tile is the one page whose supplier list carries no finish line at all. It states a size and a Profile row reading Fluted, so its fluted face is recorded as a shape rather than as a finish. The page does not leave a hole where the finish would be: the panel adds a Finish row of its own reading Not specified, and that row appears on this page and on no other in the range. Carrara Petite Herringbone Mosaic Tile carried the same row until 4 October 2026, when the supplier's current documentation recorded its finish as Polished. What what to confirm before choosing sets out about a blank field applies here — the supplier documentation does not state it, which is not the same as the tile not having one.
Studio Flat Subway Tile does state a finish, but not under the heading the rest of the range uses. Its supplier list is headed Finish family, and it is the only tile in the range headed that way. The value is Gloss or matt. The subway and wall tiles pages already note that part of the group records its face as gloss or matt. What none of them says is that this tile is filed under no finish at all, for a reason that has nothing to do with the heading.
Five wordings name two finishes at once
Haven In/Out Terrazzo-Look Tile writes Matt or rough. Haven Pebble In/Out Terrazzo-Look Tile writes Matt / rough, the same statement with a slash where the other has the word. Studio Flat Subway Tile writes Gloss or matt. Six marble-look tiles write Honed or polished, and five more write Polished or matt.
The outcomes differ. The two Haven tiles are counted once in the matt collection and once in the rough one, which both of those pages already say of themselves. The eleven marble-look tiles naming two finishes are filed under both, and since 4 October 2026 both places come from the shop's own finish list, described below. Studio Flat is counted in neither the gloss collection nor the matt one. None of those collection pages says which of the two finishes arrives in a box; since 5 October 2026 all fourteen product pages let you choose the finish, and the order is placed for the one chosen.
Honed now stands alone on three supplier lists
Eleven tiles are described as honed. Atlas Frost Stone-Look Tile and Atlas Ivory Stone-Look Tile both write Texture and honed; the six Pietra tiles from Latte to Neve write Honed or polished; and Pietra Perla Marble-Look Tile, Carrara Round Mosaic Tile and Carrara Fan Mosaic Tile write Honed and nothing else. When this page was first written there was no tile where the shorter word stood on its own. Pietra Perla was the first, and on 4 October 2026 the supplier's current documentation added the two Carrara sheets. What is a honed finish? covers what the word itself describes.
The site uses the shorter word anyway, three times over on the two Atlas pages. The Finishing row reads Honed. The collection listed on all eleven pages is honed finish tiles, which now holds eleven. And that collection's page title, the line a search result shows, opens Honed Tiles. On the Atlas pair the supplier wrote one phrase and the shop keeps three shorter versions of it.
Five words do the filing
Every product page carries a second finish row, labelled Finishing. It is on all sixty, and until 5 October 2026 it held nine values rather than twelve: matt on twenty, gloss on fourteen, honed on five, polished on three and rough on three; three pairs, each printed as a single value — Honed, Polished on six, Matt, Polished on five and Matt, Rough on two; and two reading Check current finish. Since then fourteen pages offer the two finishes as a choice — the thirteen with a pair, and Studio Flat, which read Check current finish — and the row shows the one chosen; Pietra Vela Fluted still reads Check current finish.
Those same five words name five collections. Read on 28 August 2026 and updated on 4 October 2026, matt finish tiles lists twenty-seven, gloss finish tiles fourteen, polished finish tiles fourteen, honed finish tiles eleven and rough finish tiles five.
Polished finish tiles used to be the exception: the word Polished printed in the Style row rather than the Finishing row, so that collection was filed from somewhere else. Since 4 October 2026 the product page reads Polished as a finish, and all five collections follow the same list as the Finishing row. Five of the fourteen polished tiles are also in matt finish tiles and six are also in honed finish tiles. The other three, the natural marble Carrara Large Hexagon, Stack and Petite Herringbone sheets, are only there.
Across the five that is seventy-one places held by fifty-eight tiles. Thirteen tiles take two places each — the two Haven tiles, counted once in matt and once in rough, and the eleven marble-look tiles above — and Studio Flat and Pietra Vela Fluted take none.
So a page holds two records of the finish, not three, and they are filled in separately. One is the supplier's wording, where twelve forms are possible. The other is a five-word list the shop keeps, and since 4 October 2026 that list drives all five finish collections, and the Finishing row on every page without a finish choice. On 4 October 2026 forty-three of the sixty said the same thing in both places. The seventeen that did not were the two Atlas tiles, where Texture and honed becomes Honed; Studio Flat and Pietra Vela Fluted; and thirteen tiles whose supplier wording offers two finishes as alternatives — the two Haven tiles and eleven marble-look tiles — where the Finishing row printed both as one value; since 5 October 2026 it shows the finish chosen, on those thirteen and on Studio Flat. Studio Flat is filed nowhere not because of how its supplier list is headed, but because the five-word list holds nothing for it.
Checked tile by tile across all sixty on 28 August 2026, and again on 4 October 2026, the filing follows one rule: where a supplier wording names two finishes, the shop files the tile under both. That covers the two Haven tiles and eleven marble-look tiles whose supplier row reads Honed or polished or Polished or matt. The naming is looser than the filing: the rough collection's page title opens Textured Tiles, which is not the word on any product inside it. There are shop-by pages for look, room and shape, and none for finish.
Tile sizes in Australia found a gap of the same shape on the dimension side, where browsing by size reaches fewer tiles than reading the product page does. The difference here is that the gap is not at the last step: two records are kept, filled in separately, and the tiles where they part are the same ones every time.
The Material row reads Marble on five tiles
Five tiles read Marble in the Material row: Carrara Round, Carrara Fan, Carrara Large Hexagon, Carrara Stack and Carrara Petite Herringbone mosaic tiles. Since 4 October 2026 all five state a finish, from the supplier's current documentation: Round and Fan write Honed, and Large Hexagon, Stack and Petite Herringbone write Polished. Sixteen tiles read Ceramic and thirty-nine read Porcelain, the fourteen marble-look tiles among them. So the five tiles whose material row reads Marble carry two of the twelve finish wordings between them. Honed alone is also written on one porcelain marble-look tile, Pietra Perla; Polished alone is written on these three sheets and nowhere else.
Those same five are the whole of marble tiles, which records Marble from the supplier's current documentation. Across the finish collections they divide: two sit in honed finish tiles and three in polished finish tiles, each beside porcelain marble-look tiles. The quarry or region of origin is not recorded. Read the Material row as the value in the supplier's current documentation rather than inferring composition from a product name or finish.
Which tiles here are actually stone works through that material row on its own.
A finish word describes a face, not a figure
A finish is a description of a surface. It is not a test result, and no finish row in this range carries one; where a figure exists it sits in a row of its own. The gloss finish tiles page states, of the fourteen it holds, that no wet pendulum class is recorded for any of them, and adds that a blank field is not a measurement and the page will not let it read as one.
A finish word does describe appearance, and finish is a large part of appearance: a review of gloss research by Šarić and Sole names colour, gloss, texture and translucency as the four main appearance attributes of a surface, and places gloss next after colour in how people read a surface. Other pages will tell you whether matt or gloss is the better face. This one will not. What a face suits is decided by the room and by the person installing it, not by a word in a table. What this page can settle is what the word on this site says, and where it stops saying it.
What a tiled surface asks you to clean gathers what the current finish pages say about how a face takes a mark, and stops in the same place.
Reading the finish rows before you order
- read the finish line in the supplier's list literally — twenty tiles say Matt, one says Matt or rough and five say Polished or matt, and those are not the same statement;
- read the Finishing row as well, since the two rows do not always agree;
- treat
Not specifiedin the supplier list, orCheck current finishin the option row, as unconfirmed rather than as an answer; - where a tile names two finishes, choose one on the product page, which has offered the two as a choice since 5 October 2026, and order a sample of that finish if you want to see it first;
- if you are browsing by finish, remember that two tiles sit in no finish collection at all and thirteen sit in two, so a collection is neither a full view of the range nor a clean division of it.
All sixty product pages and all the finish collections were first read on 28 August 2026, and every wording and count above comes from that reading unless it is dated otherwise. Supplier documentation changes, and a wording counted here can change with it — this page was first written when nine wordings covered forty-six tiles. The finish rows were read again on all sixty pages on 30 September 2026. Pietra Vela Fluted's supplier list now records Fluted in a Profile row rather than as its finish, so the wordings number twelve rather than thirteen, and two pages rather than one carry the panel's Not specified finish row; the list at the top and the sections built on it were updated to that reading. The finish collection pages and the shop-by pages were read again the same day: the soft polished collection's page title no longer opens Polished Tiles, the rough page no longer explains its title, and there is no longer a shop-by page for material, so those statements were removed. The other counts on this page were checked against the same reading and still hold. The Material rows were updated on 1 October 2026 from supplier documentation, which records Porcelain on the fourteen marble-look tiles; the material counts above follow that update, and no finish wording changed. On 4 October 2026 the supplier's current documentation changed the finish on eleven tiles: the six Pietra tiles from Latte to Neve now record Honed or polished, Carrara Round and Fan record Honed, Carrara Large Hexagon and Stack record Polished, and Carrara Petite Herringbone, which had no finish line, records Polished. No product here records soft polished any more, that finish collection was retired, the product page now reads Polished as a finish rather than as a style, and the wordings, counts and collection figures above were updated to that reading. On 5 October 2026 the fourteen tiles whose supplier wording names two finishes began to offer the finish as a choice on the product page, and the Finishing row passages were updated to that reading. A finish name describes an appearance: nothing above says whether a face suits a particular room, floor or wet area. Check the row on the tile you have chosen, and confirm the specification your project needs with the responsible installer or specifier before ordering.
Next step — the other row that decides what you can browse. Tile sizes in Australia puts every face size in the range in one row and shows where the size collections stop short.
References
Šarić, D. and Sole, A. S. (2024). Visually Significant Dimensions and Parameters for Gloss. Journal of Imaging, 10(1), 10. doi.org/10.3390/jimaging10010010
The research paper cited here is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence.
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