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

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Room ideas and practical decisions.

Editorial scene: two plain white tiles side by side on a white surface, one thinner with a glazed pillowed edge and one thicker with a sharp rectified edge. Generated illustration, not a Tilekind product.

Planning

Two white tiles that look the same: 7 rows that tell them apart

Twenty-nine white tiles here look alike in a photo. The rows that separate them: material, size, face, thickness, rectified edge, slip class and look.

6 September 2026 Read article

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...

6 Sep 2026

Close-up of a continuous pale stone surface with crystalline grain and warm veining under raking light

Materials

The five tiles here that are actually stone

Five product pages still give the short answer promised by this title. Their Material row reads Marble, while twenty-two products are grouped under concrete-look, stone-look, terrazzo-look or travertine-look...

24 Aug 2026

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Useful answers, without a separate help section.

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