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Practical ways to measure, compare and plan a tiling project — with exact product facts kept separate until they are verified.

From the journal

Room ideas and practical decisions.

Editorial scene: four tile sample pieces, gloss white, matt off-white, grey veined look and sage green, on a timber bench beside a window in afternoon light. Generated illustration, not a Tilekind product.

Colour

Tile samples at home: how to compare colour, light and pairing

What one sample piece can and cannot tell you, how to look at it under your own light, what the product page says about batches, and what to write down first.

6 September 2026 Read article

Editorial scene: plain white matt wall tiles with three adjacent runs of dried grout in light grey, mid grey and charcoal, showing how grout colour changes the same tile. Generated illustration, not a Tilekind product.

Bathroom

Grout colour: why a dried sample joint beats the chart

Grout dries lighter than it looks wet, a chart is printed ink, and joint length per square metre decides how much of the wall is grout. How to...

6 Sep 2026

Planning support

Useful answers, without a separate help section.

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