Tile
Waterline, spillways, risers and the walls of a covered room.
Tile is a small line item that people remember, because it sits at eye level in the water and on every wall you lean against. Everything here is a material family — glass, porcelain, ceramic, stone mosaic — described by how it behaves rather than who makes it.
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WaterlineGlass mosaic waterline tile
Small glass squares on mesh sheets. Glass has depth that ceramic does not — it changes colour as the light moves — and it is the single most effective way to change what colour the water reads as.
WaterlineHand-painted deco tile
Patterned ceramic — the blue-and-white Spanish-influenced band you see on a lot of San Diego pools. Every tile is painted, so no two runs match exactly, and that is the point.
Floors & wallsWood-look porcelain plank
Long porcelain planks printed as timber. Under a solid cover it gives an outdoor room a floor rather than a slab, and unlike real wood it does not care about sprinklers, sunscreen or dogs.
Floors & wallsHerringbone wall tile
Small-format tile laid on a diagonal repeat, used to give the back wall of a covered kitchen or bar a texture that catches raking light. Pattern doing the work that colour usually does.
Nobody should pick tile off a screen
Colour on a monitor is a guess, and a surface you will walk on barefoot for fifteen years is not a guess worth making. We put real samples in front of you at the design consultation, in daylight, next to each other — including the ones we would talk you out of.