This color is very difficult to describe: a bit of blue and grey and a very tiny touch of green. The glaze is opac (covering the basic porcelain tile) and glossy. They are very nich with design tiles as you can see underneath. The mix gives a tradtional soft look and mood. Nice for kitchens in particular for antique and country styl ones.

                       Design tiles: Flowers                                                           Design Tiles: feathered animals                                                         Design Tiles: Children games

                                                                                                    The tiles will  be soon available in our store at Etsy.

The latest issue of the German Magazin for Miniatures and Dollhouses "1zu12" informs about the work of Tiny Ceramics. Barbara Leuchtenberger, the publisher describes how the miniature tiles are made, what kind of tiles are available and how customers can be supported during the creative process. We thank Barbara very much for her warm and appreciating words and the opportunity to show what impressions and looks can be achieved by using real ceramic miniture tiles. Besides we recommend to read in the Magazin about Margot and Jelmer Scheltes dollhouse and how the applied miniature tiles in the bathroom, kitchen and entrance hall. (see our February "NEWS" as well)

After having tiles the kitchen, Susanne liked to renovate the bathroom, too. She selected a back and white checkerboard for the floor. This kind of floor fits well to the styl of the dollhouse and particualarly to the wallpaper. Besides she liked to tiles the walls in a straigt setting.
We thank Susanne for the fruitful co-operation and for allowing us to share the photos of the work in progress.

The layout was made based on the templates of the floor and all walls. (photo left). On the second photo you see the floor after Susanne had started laying the tiles. As we deliver the tile layout in the right size of the room together with the tiles and a recommendation on how to lay the tiles, tiling was quiet easy. She followed the instruction and glued the tiles in the center of each field. As you can see on the 3rd photo she executed the work very well. Finally she installed the floor and walls in the dollhouse and grouted the grooves between the tiles. The result is a crisp look which are typical for houses build in the 1030 th.

In order to produce design tiles every single tiles has be be covered by hand with the design. After having done this piece by piece is placed on kiln shelfs.  It is quite a lot of work to do this. The firing took place at 880 °C. By doing that the design melts into the glaze surface and gets durable.  Finally we glue the mural tiles on adhesive tape and put together the sets of flowers, feathered animals and blue Dutch tiles. The large Mural "Pastorale " in the Middle will be ready for sale within the next weeks. All other desgin tiles can be ordered by mail or via the sale platform Etsy. 

Rebecca Stewart  of Tiny Dwelling Miniatures has a many years of experience in making bespoke miniature items.  Furthermore, she offers to build complete houses according to the wishes of her customers. For a very special bathroom in a house we made a floor according to her wishes. As design Rebecca selected a diamond setting. The tiles were glazed in 2 different blue hues which go very well with color of the wall. Below you can see the layout, Horst glueing down the tiles accurately and last but not least the finished floor. On the photo above you can see how well Rebecca coordinated all elements of the room. They nicely enhance each other creating a opulent and lively setting.

More of her work can be seen on her Internet page and on Etsy. If you like us to create a custom made floor for your project, please send us a mail with your wishes.

This month I like to show you how nice orange tiles (no. 243300) are in tradtional houses. The tiles are covered with a special old glaze, which get very fine cracks on the surface in the long time. It is a desired feature and called Craquellee. You find this on old full size tiles,too. I like this lively tiles very much when they are like in this kitchen combined with Dutch Design tiles. You will find both tile typ in our shop.

Margot and Jelmer Scheltes own a modern dollhouse. According to the wishes of the "residents" they created the kitchen, ,made the layout for for the wall and the floor and ordered the miniature tiles. We made floor tiles with a modern grey glaze and railway tiles for the wall covered with a white glossy glaze.
The next step was to lay the tiles and to fill the grooves. As you can see both works have been executed professionally. Now the housewarming party can take place!
We thank Margot and Jelmer for the fruitful cooperation and for their allowance to show their photos.

This is the second tile project which we made for Jody´s house. Jody liked to get a elegant checkerboard floor in back and white. It should look opulent and elegant.
As the floor shape was somewhat different to a real octagon making a good looking layout by keeping in mind the design wishes was quite a challenge!  Finally we agreed on the shown layout. The tiles with the golden surface (real gold!) gives the classic elegant floor an extravagant touch.
We delivered all tiles vut to the right size  and the layout in the size of the room. Jack, Jody´s husband laid the tiles accuratly and grouted the floor after having fixed the floor in the house.  Now the concernt  can start in the right atmosphere!

A great "Thank you" to Jody and Jack for the co-operation and the allowance to publish the photos.